Categories: Curiosities

10 Things We’re All Stealing Without Realizing

PENS

There’s even a word for this type of ‘robbery’ and it’s ‘scriptoclepto,’ aka a person who steals any writing implement without remorse for the minor heist, according to Urban Dictionary. Cynthia Fabian, a one-time English teacher, has seen this in action. ‘It was understandable when students would forget their pens and not return them, but adults walking away with them was another story,’ she says. ‘In everyone’s house, there are pens from the bank or another place of pilfering.’ And there’s no sign of this habit stopping anytime soon. ‘Even though people use tablets or phones for notes, those pens keep popping up in junk drawers and pocketbooks.’

 

TISSUES

It’s one thing to take a tissue for now and another one for later, but have you ever seen a person swipe an entire tissue box from a desk and put it in a backpack? Fabian has. ‘Sometimes a box of tissues would disappear and I would try to replace it,’ she says. ‘But, the more frequently I replaced the boxes, the faster they would disappear. This is bad when you’re on a tight budget!’

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

smartlivingtips

Recent Posts

10 Factors That Might Stop You From Investing In Real Estate

Real estate investments can turn into a stable source of profit. Whether you are looking…

4 years ago

17 Foods You Never Knew Were Banned in America

We might be living in the land of the free, but not everything is legal.…

4 years ago

11 Personal Finance Tips For Every Stage of Your Financial Life

People are prone to make mistakes sooner or later in their lives, that’s just the…

4 years ago

16 Reasons You Can’t Escape The Poverty Trap

Many Americans struggle with financial hardships, from exorbitant healthcare costs to taxes, college tuition and…

4 years ago

Want to Save Money? Here Are 16 Effective Ways to Trick Yourself Into Doing It!

When it comes to setting money aside there are many strategies out there, some that…

4 years ago

Do You Make Any of These 20 Cooking Mistakes?

Nobody is born a chef, we know that. But a lot of people seem to…

4 years ago