Hello! Personally I prefer crayons for highlighting texts, instead of highlighting markers. At the University, both as student and as teacher, I often used over two highlighter markers per month, and when color coding, the number went higher. The cost of it – not to mention the non-eco-friendly waste it leaves – can become high. Crayons offer a mush softer highlighting that can be erased in some cases, that doesn’t bleed through the page, where you can color code and highlight all you want on a very small price for years. They are smaller, so you can pack them anywhere, and the waste they leave behind is minimal.

With this new use, well, we don’t lose anything trying it out, right? So I guess I’ll try it out one of these days.

Either way, it got me thinking how something so simple, so humble can come back to our lives, now not as a toy, but as a useful, versatile, eco-friendly tool.