Out with the OLD and in with the NEW!

Out with the OLD and in with the NEW!

I am resistant to change. I always have been – I like things the way I like them, the way they have always worked for me. This goes for phon... 11 years ago

I am resistant to change.

I always have been – I like things the way I like them, the way they have always worked for me.

This goes for phones and computers and sewing machines and everything I own….

But did you know it also applies to rulers?

I have had a tried and true ruler for years…and I’ve loved it.

I swore by these:

Look familiar?

This is my old 6.5” X 12.5” Creative Grids – My go-to ruler for nearly everything.  And the lines were becoming worn, and so I ordered a new one…and this is what I got:

ACKKKK!  Holy CRAP!

I can’t see where to place my lines because the bubbles are all TOO BIG…the numbers are HUGE…and those black ones? Don’t even get me started, you can’t read through them..

And that white square KEY/LOGO thing off to the left of my red strip?  You can’t read or measure there either…

I have tried and tried to use this ruler, but it just won’t work for me.  I need less.  I need easier.

And I picked up this after Christmas at Hancock’s when rulers were on sale just to try it:

YES!!

This is the Olfa frosted.  NO Huge circles in white or in black…no white squares that serve whatever purpose that I can’t read through….just anti-glare, easy to read super fine lines, and I don’t have to turn the ruler around to cut things on the half inch. 

Oh, and the lines are embedded so they will not wear off.

I’m ruler-happy.

Less IS More.

And The OLD is OUT!!

*PS*

I don't do rulers with big green bubbles or yellow lines in 1/8" increments either...I need to donate my unused ruler drawer to some 3rd world country..but why would THEY want them if they are so terrible?

And don't even get me started on the one with the sharpener on one edge? (*&@#$(*&!

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