Made By Humans, Eco Staple Free Stapler, Desktop Stapler, Black (452)

by Made By Humans

• Staples up to 5 pages
• Creates no waste
• Safe for kids
• Sold Individually

Product Description

Staples papers together without staples! Yes, really. This is how it works: The Eco Staple Free Stapler cuts out tiny strips of paper in the corner of your documents and uses these strips to "stitch" up to five pages of standard paper together. No more metal staples (so that's good for the planet and your wallet). Ideal for paper shredders. Child safe. Uses no metal staples. Creates no paper waste. Safe for children.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

84 of 87 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Stapler for 3-4 Pages, Decent for 2 or 5, Questionable Beyond 6 March 9, 2009

By Z. Chen

I have been cursed with both a selection of professors who refuse to take papers unstapled (or to provide a stapler) and a brain that refuses to accept that papers come out of printers without staples. I have purchased those tiny little staplers that they sell for this purpose, but seriously those things hold about 20 staples each and run out fast between me and anybody who happened to sit next to me on paper turn in day. This little contraption requires no refills which allows me to be as absentminded about my stapling (of 5 papers or less approximately) as I want!

Now what you really want to know. How does this marvelous little contraption work!

Well, just like a normal stapler. You slide paper in. You push down. You release. You pull paper out. Paper is stapled. Fantastic, right?
It basically cuts a elongated u and a line into your paper, then proceeds to pull at the flap of paper left by the u and tuck it into the line. To remove the 'staple,' I tend to stick the tip of my pencil at the tab and untuck the tab, very easy. Don't try to staple it again at the same point. It'll just cut holes.

Now my main gripes with it. It is really only good for stapling of approximately 3-4 papers. Now with 2, the stitch comes undone too easily due to the lack of the thickness of the paper being tucked into the line. With 5, it begins to get a little bulky and becomes a little trickier. Beyond that, you're going to need a real stapler unless you want the stapler to rip your paper while attempting the tucking procedure, if it can get that far. Also, the staple leaves a hole on your paper and tucking thing means that the paper is displaced. So if you have a tendency to staple right next to your words, this is not the stapler for you.... Also due to the size of the stapler, you are limited in how far into the paper you can staple but you do need all that space because or else you might just end up cutting a chunk out of the side of your paper. Once you figure out where you need to be, it's pretty easy.

I enjoy this stapler, but it is very specific to what it can handle. I guess it's a good thing that most of my papers are exactly 3-4 pages long, but for the longer papers (or thicker papers), I find myself digging out the old Swingline. I would recommend this as an additional stapler but not an only stapler. Read more ›

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars It's okay January 9, 2007

By Annie

Before I ordered the Staple Free Stapler I read several reviews and thought this would be a neat little gadget to have on my desk at work. Once I got the stapler and tried it out I was very disapointed in it. Some reviews stated that the papers stayed together and it worked great. With much disapointment I found my papers did not stay together and it actually takes more time to use then a regular stapler.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars About as good as a dollar store gadget. March 7, 2008

By bg

This functions, sometimes. It's curious and gimmicky. I prefer useful and dependable. It punches out three sides of a little flap and a little slit. After you remove the paper from the gadget, you tuck the flap into the slit. Much of the time, when you pull the paper out of the stapler it rips off the little flap, leaving nothing to tuck. Maybe on a day of severe boredom and lots of practice with scrap paper I could master this little thing, but I don't see it ever replacing my trusty Swingline.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great gadget - works as advertised January 14, 2007

By C. S. Funk

I got this for putting papers together for my sunday school class so I wouldn't have to worry about the small children and staples. I find it works quite well. It does put a very small rectangular hole in the papers which is not a big deal. It does NOT require any more effort or force as other reviewers noted than a regular stapler. My five year old can use it. It seems to work just like a paper punch if you are familiar with those. I think it's great and almost a necessity now at our house. I even thought about getting them for my daughter's teachers.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Worked Well...For a While June 27, 2008

By Y. Huang

The stapler worked fairly well for the first few days, but after about a week, it went downhill. I'd try to staple just 2 sheets of paper together, but it wouldn't work properly. I did everything exactly the way I had the first few times I used it, but no matter how many times I tried, the stapler wouldn't even make the slits properly.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Like Magic October 31, 2007

By VisualSmith

Amazon Verified Purchase

Pretty neat product. However, they are serious about stapling only a few pages. I tried to staple 8 pages and now I am ordering a replacement!

Update: Received a new one and will heed the page limit warning. This is great if you are running late to a meeting and you just need to staple a few pages and your stapler (like always) is mysteriously empty. Plus, it's economical and the fold looks neat!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars neat December 4, 2006

By Kirk

It's smaller than I expected (maybe 2 cubed inches) and is purely mechanical (push down and pull to remove paper). Works as advertised. Very neat.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Won't last long August 25, 2011

By Robert W. Stowe

Amazon Verified Purchase

It immediately looked like a great idea...to not use staples. The first time I used it, it worked just dandy. It took one to work and tried to "punch" 4 pieces of 20# paper together. That was a bad idea. The little Eco Staple Free froze and it took a bit of work to remove the papers jammed in the little thing. I'm afraid it never survived after that. Its little metal knife inside just swung loosely. Tossed it in the trash. I believe that you are instructed to not use more than two sheets at a time. However, I don't have the instructions, so I cannot confirm that. It is certainly a conversation piece, but will not replace the utility of a real stapler.