scrap paper
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Fun fact: That Post-it Notes were originally yellow was happenstance, too; that’s the color scrap paper the lab next door had available.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Speaking to Rolling Stone in 1990, he said his mother "saved" him by encouraging him to draw on scrap paper rather than using colouring books, where "the whole idea is to stay between the lines".
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Expecting a mundane office setting, and with no time to source a seamless or fabric backdrop, I painted a huge piece of scrap paper that night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Society has been running low on scrap paper for quite some time now!
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2023
Sometimes they’d take their pencils and scrap paper and draw to pass the time.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
