Everyone loves having school/office supplies. How do I know?
Any film/TV production I worked on was utterly looted at the end of a shoot or season for any and all supplies as people at all levels could manage to haul off. Post-Its. Highlighters. Reams of paper. Pens, pencils, notebooks, tapes (scotch, masking, gaffer, duck, audio), sharpeners, staplers, hole punches, those heavy brass brads used to bind scripts, rulers, Sharpies, batteries, blank floppy discs, CDs and DVDs, paper and binder clips of all kinds, rubber bands, corkboards, clipboards, dry erase boards. It was a spree, a veritable spree. The production could write all that off, you see.
Except Disney. Disney doesn’t do that. I was a PA on a Disney movie some years ago and at the end of the shoot, my assignment was to account for all office supplies bought by Production. I was snatching pencils out of peoples’ hands on the last office day. All available leftover supplies had to go back to Disney in LA, including an enclosed purchase list and copies of the purchase orders in binders. A FedEx truck on a special appointment had to pick up 150+ boxes. That had to have been some policy straight from the days of Walt himself.
“Do I send back this pencil nub?” “Yeah, I think you’d better.” “But… it’s a pencil nub.” “I know. Put it in the box.”