Answer Me This! Podcast

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I declare Ben from Italy to be a man with too many pencils:

In the last episode you were talking about Ikea pencils and it prompted a few questions as I have over 500 pencils myself:

1. Is it morally wrong to go to Ikea for the sole purpose of filling my pencil-case?

No. It’s not morally wrong; it’s unbelievably stupid. There are far more convenient places to get pencils than an out-of-town superstore, and moreover, one should never, NEVER go to Ikea unless one is in the direst need of furnishings.

2. After the checkout in Ikea there is a box where you put the pencils you’ve used. Do they then sharpen them and put them back? Surely that would mean that they were even shorter.

Now that I do not know. But surely there must be an Ikea employee amongst the AMT listenership: reader, if that is you, please tell us what happens to the little pencils that aren’t stolen by people like us. Do they find a good home, or are they ground down and reconstituted into Malm headboards?

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