What are the tiny metal office supplies with a needle called?

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Krow_Incarnate
04/15/2025
12:12 PM
#1
They're kind of like a paper clip, but with a slot for a needle that bends outward.
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Krow_Incarnate
04/15/2025
12:14 PM
#2
Never mind, I found it!

Safety pin
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MICHALECOLE
04/15/2025
12:16 PM
#3
What a rollercoaster
Revelation34
04/15/2025
12:32 PM
#4
MICHALECOLE posted...
What a rollercoaster


Safetycoaster
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rjsilverthorn
04/15/2025
02:07 PM
#5
Never really considered a safety pin as an office supply.
ConfusedTorchic
04/15/2025
02:17 PM
#6
rjsilverthorn posted...
Never really considered a safety pin as an office supply.


no, they're more for embroidery or sewing

basically just to pin fabric to other fabric
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Krow_Incarnate
04/15/2025
04:41 PM
#7


I didn't know what else to call them. It's not like I use them in my daily life. I just need to drain an infection.

I spent probably a good hour or so trying to figure out what they were called before I made the thread. I always thought "safety pin" was more broad and covered a variety of pin types, so that never would've come to mind.
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ParanoidObsessive
04/15/2025
06:07 PM
#8
Krow_Incarnate posted...
Never mind, I found it!

Safety pin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19dywzZbB8E



ConfusedTorchic posted...
rjsilverthorn posted...
Never really considered a safety pin as an office supply.

no, they're more for embroidery or sewing

basically just to pin fabric to other fabric

And in the old days larger ones were used to pin up diapers (and some people still do).

Though oddly enough, my mother always used to keep a little jar full of safety pins in the same desk she kept most of her office supplies, so apparently it is a thing that some people think of them as an office-related item.
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ParanoidObsessive
04/15/2025
06:12 PM
#9
Oh, and:

Krow_Incarnate posted...
I didn't know what else to call them. It's not like I use them in my daily life. I just need to drain an infection.

Any time I had to do something like that, I always just used one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_pin.jpg
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AltOmega2
04/15/2025
10:51 PM
#10
rjsilverthorn posted...
Never really considered a safety pin as an office supply.
funnily enough someone in my office needed one today because her pant legs were too long
paper clips did not work and she did not find the idea of using staples amusing
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willythemailboy
04/16/2025
12:27 AM
#11
ParanoidObsessive posted...
And in the old days larger ones were used to pin up diapers (and some people still do).
I may or may not have pinned a cloth diaper to my little sister once.

In my defense, I was six at the time.
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