Here’s one essential office supply you may overlook until you need it: discount rubber bands. You may be counting on the rubber bands that hold your mail together, but those are never enough. You use discount rubber bands for countless little tasks, holding together papers, strapping objects together, whatever – if you think about them, you probably use one every day.

If everybody uses one rubber band a day, the ones you get from the mail carrier run out quickly. Just keep discount rubber bands on hand. Give a few to everybody to keep in their desks, and store the rest in the office supply cabinet for when they inevitably run out. They’re cheap and easy to order with your regular discount office supplies.