Every so often our suppliers come up with some promotional offers, with the recent financial turmoil it seems that the offers are getting more inventive.

Inventive? – Our staff  writers are very polite – some of these offers are just plain bizarre. Ed! 

For instance the first offer is a bag of sweets with your pens – The Bic Atlantis Ball Pen, one of our nicer ball pens I might add, is currently coming with a free bag of sweets.

You might think that sweets with pens is not all that inventive and that you could think up something much better, so did our suppliers, for instance Durable have some excellent name badges with free cuddly penguins. (Yes I did say ‘Cuddly Penguins’). The Durable Click Fold Name Badge with Clip, a smart high quality name badge, designed for use with the Durable bage inserts and the Duraprint software, is currently being offered with these cute cuddly penguins.

I can just see the burly security guard at the conference hall entrance, handing out the name badges with a little cuddly penguin with a pink hat in his top pocket, on the other hand I’m sure you can find a much better home for them.

Hmm I’m having difficulty imagining trying to persuade a security man that his new uniform comes with a cuddly penguin Ed! 

The third offer that we are showcasing here is from Fellowes, they produce some useful CD/DVD cases, and with the 32 CD case there is a free ‘Weather Station’, okay it is really just a digital clock and calendar with a thermomenter display (and really quite a good freebie – we just thought that calling it a weather station was a little over the top – when I saw the title I was expecting something you set up in the garden to measure temperature and rainfall).

Fellowes 32 CD/DVD Case features high quality construction designed for maximum protection easy access, scratch resistant SafeSleeves™ which secure and protect CD/DVDs.

Lunch is on us when you buy a pack of 10 Leitz Lever Arch Files, until the end of the month (code 35679X black, code 35700X blue, code 35681X red).

This is just one of a great range of deals Office365 is offering in conjunction with the Leitz Office Games.

We’re offering a free Pilates Ball when you buy 1 pack of Leitz SoftClick Presentation Binders code 92759X, a free pair of dumbbells with every purchase of a Leitz Heavy Duty Hole Punch code 35956X and a free pair of handgrips with every 2 packs of Leitz Ultimate Files code 35883X.

If all that has worn you out, you can relax with a cup of Twinings Morning Detox Tea, free with any 3 Leitz Plus Jumbo Letter Trays code 92342X blue, 92355X black.