What can I label with my new Label Maker? Eyes up the cat.....

[MabelTheLabeller]

So far I have done
food storage canisters
Any USB charging cable that isn't the ubiquitous "nokia charger"
The remote controls so that I know whether Now TV is on HDMI 2 or 3

I haven't yet labelled the machine itself, but Mabel's Labeller is going to get printed sometime!

What else...?

Are the labels sticky? I’m a teacher, is this something I need in my life?

Dog treat jars. Yep. Labelled them.

Phone number on back of the phone - was invaluable for me for a couple of years until I miraculously memorised it.

Keys - front and side garden gate keys look identical.

I decant large bags of spices into kilner jars and label them.

All the chargers

@Tunnockswafer if you’re a teacher I can’t think of any profession who could have more use for a labeller! The labels are sticky and available in lots of colours!

Spice jars. Spines of ringbinders

Thanks Judgerinder! Strangely I'm watching an old series of Fringe and the main character is using a label maker in a drug induced fit of organisation! Must be meant to be...

At school I was a “librarian” (it was what we were called, but clearly we were not qualified...) from Y7 onwards & one of the best things about it was getting to use the label-maker. We were only meant to use it for new acquisitions but on one occasion a couple of us persuaded the librarian we should label things like the stapler to dissuade other staff from borrowing-&-failing-to-return (a frequent occurrence). Our school librarian was fab - he was genuinely enthusiastic about his job & would ask us for book recommendations & turn a blind eye to labelling shenanigans...

Am now wondering if I can persuade my Assistant Brownie Leader our Unit need a label maker...

@sonjadog

This ia a brilliant idea! if the tape comes in different colours you can do several langauges at once.
Does that justify buying one?

I was about to go and buy some red stickers to put on important mustn't-be-unplugged plugs like the fridge... but I'm beginning to think a label maker would be far more useful...

Do you still have to press them really hard for the letters to print?

It's not like that now Rockbird 😄, the text just prints magically somehow 🤔. I love my label printer.

I also have had a Brother H110 for a while now, but I gave up on it because each time i printed a label, it used a good two inches of plain tape before it started printing and it's just such a waste. I couldn't figure out how to adjust the margins, only on the one side.

I thought if all you mad labellers this morning - DH has mixed yo the recycling boxes, so I said "Ah ha! I've found my label machine, I shall get into it!"

The only thing is, once I start there'll be little chance if me stopping...

You need a small child with a passion for collecting interesting rocks and bits.
Then you buy a really useful box with all the mini sections and you give each a label. Red section, green section etc.
Then you print out a very long label reading "Ds1's Special Box of Precious Things".
We were very happy that day.

Whisperer - you can change the settings so there is no excess tape at either end of the word to reduce waste

I label the shelves for everything in the cellar and shed so people put things back where they live and I don't spend an hour looking for a drill or a spanner.

Also for labelling seedlings growing in pots so I remember whats in what

I have a Dymo Letratag and you can get all sorts of special tape - waterproof, clear, luminous yellow.

Which reminds me - I have labelled all of the DC cycle helmets

Whisperer - you can change the settings so there is no excess tape at either end of the word to reduce waste

I know, I just couldn't figure out how to do both ends. I managed to change one

One of my best days was buying Ikea spice jars and printing labels for them. That was a good time.

Plugs and switches are very handy. I stuck a label on the heating controls to show mum how to use it. Labelled the cutlery drawer inserts in the dining room so no one mixes up steal knives and regular knives. People are a bit when they see that. Shelves in linen closet. It would be just the right size to make labels for the suspension files in a filing cabinet.

The tape itself is sticky? Is it (ever) removable, eg when I want to swap round T-shirt’s and towels and need to change the label?

Oh my goodness. I NEED a labeller in my life.

I am super organised when it comes to where things go etc. I have labelled all my plugs with individual stickers self-adhesive labels¥ but they have my unintelligible handwriting on so a labeller would be amazing. I will label EVERYTHING. Especially now I am a carer for my elderly (well 72!) DM and she is getting more forgetful.*

My people I love you.* 😘

¥hope some people get the reference

@Rockbird
Do you still have to press them really hard for the letters to print?
No, that's the Dymo "embossed" label maker (also 70s child)
The keys are quite small so I found using the wrong end of a pencil helpful.
@TheFuckfaceWhisperer even with narrow margin setting, it is very wasteful of tape, there is always an inch spare at the start.
I got round this by typing several labels, the printing them together so I got a long string of labels and just used scissors to cut them.

@WalterIris good idea to use labels as a teaching aid for where things belong.

I was in garage just now an noticed that the cover of fuse board was ajar. I came with some preprinted labels but most are hand written... I feel my label finger twitching to tidy it up.

I went as far as labelling a shelf in the fridge ‘CHEESE’ as I was fed up of finding an open packet of cheddar on every shelf. It has had no impact as apparently none of my university educated family members can read.

Valuable oil paintings from 17th Century Dutch masters.

Valuable oil paintings from 17th Century Dutch masters
Wouldn't these have to be labelled with a genuine 17th century labeller?

It's taken a while but I'm ready to take the plunge! Recommend me a label maker!