damn you sticky note papers

Whilst tearing off a small canary yellow piece of paper from it's sticky home to apply to a document (with a thrilling "Please Approve" message for a colleague), I got to wondering just how many of these little sticky notes I waste per year.

So I did some calculating and concluded about 2080 pieces (100 sheets per pad x 1 pad every 2.5 weeks). I felt guilty, then found this reusable post-it idea at Halfbakery (with some pretty colorful comments); I started feeling really guilty, until this colossal waste of thousands of post-its made me feel better.