If I'm writing out more than one label, on junk mail, I'll Braille a line of C's, then fold it there, and it rips straight.
-----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Kuzma via Cookinginthedark Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 10:04 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Richard Kuzma <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CnD] Labeling Decisions Just a thought, Holidays are coming, Could just save some Christmas cards and use those. Just might be heavey enough. -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell via Cookinginthedark Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 9:57 PM To: Dani Pagador via Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> Cc: Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CnD] Labeling Decisions The technical term to use in the stationery shop is #100 weight card stock. It even comes in larger sheets and not labeled as braille paper you pay less. On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, Dani Pagador via Cookinginthedark wrote: > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:05:05 > From: Dani Pagador via Cookinginthedark > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: Dani Pagador <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CnD] Labeling Decisions > > Mary, > Glad you found something that works for you. > > I hope you get the index cards that are made on paper like what > Braille paper is made of. I bought some a few years ago that is like > the stuff really flimsy magazine covers are made of; boy was I > surprised and unhappy when I opened the package. It doesn't hold up > too well for long-term use and gets stuck in the interpoint index card > slate. I think they changed the material to cut costs. Good for them > maybe, but not for me. *sad smiley* > > More Later, > Dani > > fo > > On 8/18/20, meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for everybody's suggestions for my labeling problem. > > > > I had to decide something about labeling. So I bought some 3 x 5 > > index cards and an index card slate that is supposed to be for that > > size. I also went ahead and bought some dymo tape and some of those > > Braille labels with the holes at both ends and the elastic ties. > > That way, I am ready for almost anything. I think that I will just > > put the bags of seeds into other bags so that the paper doesn't > > touch them and I can still read the labels through the plastic. An > > awkward solution, but it will work for the little tiny bags. The bigger bags and containers can get the ones with the ties. > > I > > feel bad about using all these plastic bags, one to hold similar > > products, one for each bag to hold it and the label, and one for each bag of seeds. > > But some of this will be reusable, and besides, it will take me a > > long time to go through most of those bags of seeds anyway. So we > > might be in this for the long haul. > > > > So that is the progress on my Covid19 hobby of growing food in air > > conditioned comfort while blind. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On > > Behalf Of > > diane.fann7--- via Cookinginthedark > > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 7:31 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [CnD] Labeling problem > > > > All the years I carried a $6000 notetaker around with me, I also > > carried a postcard slate, stilus and index cards. Nothing like being > > sure you can get the job done. (smile) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On > > Behalf Of Linda S. via Cookinginthedark > > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 11:26 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: Linda S. <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [CnD] Labeling problem > > > > You go girl! > > > > On 8/17/2020 6:11 PM, Dani Pagador via Cookinginthedark wrote: > >> That's why I went the low-tech route. I know that it takes time to > >> make the labels by hand, but if a high-tech device like Pen Friend > >> or the bar code reader ever breaks or isn't available and I were > >> dependent on it, I'd be in huuuge trouble. I'm waaay too dependent > >> on my iPhone as it is. > >> > >> At least for this gal, Braille and the slate and stylus will never > >> go out of style, not as long as I can read it and use them. I may > >> run out of Dymo tape and elastic, my preferrd materials of choice, > >> but there's all kinds of stuff labels can be made out of. > >> > >> I like seeing what everyone else is doing to solve the labeling > >> problem. Mary, too bad there isn't a site that can identify seeds > >> for you the way they have one now for identifying mystery pills > >> that find their way out of the bottle. Maybe you could sprout some > >> of the mystery seeds and, if you've had them before, identify them by taste? > >> Aaron wouldn't be able to help identify them visually, would he? > >> > >> More Later, > >> Dani > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 8/17/20, meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I take it that the Pen Friend 2 labels cannot go in the freezer? > >>> I mean, get wet? > >>> > >>> I hope the second iteration of this is smaller than the first one, > >>> which I thought was rather clunky and awkward to use. I would > >>> rather not have to haul my phone around to look at these labels, > >>> but I might > > have to. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On > >>> Behalf Of Richard Kuzma via Cookinginthedark > >>> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020 9:35 PM > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Cc: Richard Kuzma <[email protected]> > >>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Labeling problem > >>> > >>> good evening, > >>> do you have any kind of labeling device such as a pen friend or id mate? > >>> What I do is put a pen friend label/dot on a business card and > >>> then laminate it and then punch hole in it and tie to bag and it > >>> works wonderfully in frezzer. > >>> I do the same thing with bar code lables I make for use with my quest. > >>> I have created a program to print my own barcode labels. > >>> If interested, just let me know. > >>> thanks > >>> rich > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> On > >>> Behalf Of > >>> meward1954--- via Cookinginthedark > >>> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020 9:44 PM > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Cc: [email protected] > >>> Subject: [CnD] Labeling problem > >>> > >>> Does anybody have a way to label things that are in plastic bags > >>> kept in the freezer or refrigerator? Dymo tape does not work. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I have lots of seeds for my sprouts and microgreens, and I am > >>> starting to have trouble keeping track of them. But labeling > >>> things in the freezer is not exactly a new problem. Any ideas > >>> would be > > appreciated. 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