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Or try:

Key, $0, at Already On Your Key Ring And Doesn't Involve Buying Another Knickknack.

JUNK. Stop pushing clutter.

a butter knife does the same trick and you already own it.

Sheesh people. I like it! Great stocking stuffer for $15 and I thought the exact same thing, I actually thought it WAS from Tiffany.

I actually like this kind:

http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/p1_Letter-Openers_10557_Business_Supplies_10051_SEARCH

As far as stocking stuffers, I think I'd probably be underwhelmed about getting a letter opener! Anyway, I thought we were trying to get the people to stop sending us junk and being kind of paperless with your bills. Then, still, I might wonder why there's a pile of torn envelopes on the desk. Throw them in the trash/recycling, as you go! What kind of outfit is this that can't stick with the program?

I like it too - There's something to be said for simple, elegant and well-made items that improve your life...

...the cheap plastic thingamagigs from Staples just don't cut it.

Dear Apartment Therapy,

I think your site's great. But please, PLEASE, stop writing "it's" for possessive. "It's" means "it is"; "its" is the possessive.

I have seen this error several times in the last few days alone. I understand that blogs may not have editorial staff and posts may be written quickly, but come on, this is elementary grammar.

Thanks,
jess

bepsf - I agree the ordinary plastic staples letter opener is nothing to look at it, but that's what desk drawers are for. I find traditional letter openers to be more of a hassle then just using my opposable thumbs for something they're naturally good at, and prefer the functional staples type especially for volumes of mail (the types I might have to handle at work, moreso). I would probably be sort of impressed with an elegant version of the $2 cutter, but not overly so. I don't find fancy doodads like a letter opener to be money well-spent.

Oh, Jess, I can't even tell you how many times I have irritated an AT blogger with my lecture on its v. it's. It seems to do no good at all. I wish AT would at least have its (ITS!) bloggers team up to proof-read for each other. They're supposed to be professional writers. You'd think they could at least get elementary grammar sorted out.

Sweet Jesus, Jesster and Jezebella! Have you nothing better to do than snipe at typos in a blog? Everyone makes the occasional slip, and its/it's is - as you point out - a very common one. As is their/there. Writers do know the difference, but everyone - even you two, one suspects - makes the error from time to time.

Of course, for all the prescriptive advice your posts dole out, their real function is demonstrative pedantry; YOU are on the ball, the writers are not! YOU are so sensitive to poor grammar that a misplaced inverted comma wounds you deeply!

God, life must be a cavalcade of dissatisfactions for the two of yaz!

Let's see, we're so lacking a life that we comment on a blog post; YOU are so lacking a life that you're commenting on a comment. Who's the over-sensitive pedant here??

Pot, kettle. Wev.

Here, let me make your night by commenting on your comment on my comment on your comment!

I posted not because I care about your pedantry (nor about my own) but because a living, breathing human wrote the original post, in which they made the trivial error that you and your hyperalgesic consort pounced on. Paid blogging can be very hard work indeed, with tight time constraints; with deadline pressures, errors become more likely.

Since your investment in this free web site is limited to the time you spend reading it, your only real loss here is the time it took you to parse the error - perhaps a half second?

What you chose to do with that error was to berate someone whose hard work you feel comfortable picking apart - particularly fine sport since you read their work gratis. Since writers tend to take pride in their work, and since the post and its attendant comments are broadcast to a large audience, your decision to punish the loss of a half second of your time with a public harangue feels a bit like bullying to me.

ROFLMAO!! I like the letter opener - but i LOVE Jaze's comments!!!

Jaze, YOU ROCK!!!!!

The its / it's mistakes DO need to go. They're silly and lame.