Thank God for Post-it® Notes

Sorry Michelle, the adhesive for 3M Post-it® Notes was developed in 1968 by Dr. Spencer Silver (genius) it was not combined with paper to create the wonderful Post-it® Note until fellow 3M scientist Art Fry (another genius) came along. Fry came up with the practical use for the re positionable adhesive when trying to keep a bookmark stuck in his hymnal. Thanks to Art Fry's need to keep his place in church, Post-it® Notes were born.

Post-it® Notes were launched in 1977, but did not go national until 1980. Post-it® Notes were produced exclusively by 3M until 1990 when their patent ran out. They are now produced by other companies under the name of "sticky" or "re positional" notes.

I personally LOVE the little yellow squares. I might be my office's number one user (I had a great cube of bright yellow notes that was given to me by our ULINE rep...but it recently vanished).

Besides the obvious posting of a note, there are many uses for re positional notes including:

• Marking you place in a book
• Cutting off the sticky part to use as tape
• Placing the note sticky side into your keyboard to clean between keys
• And last but not least, vandalizing a co-worker's cube...

For more information on Post-it® Notes visit Post-it.com.

Thanks to the individual who post-ited my cube for inspiring this post. Readers, any ideas for payback?