I buy Deco brand at my Michaels. It's the only brand I've seen there. As long as it's paint, and not regular marker, it should be fine.

Karen

The Elmer's is the one that I use - you will be happy with it.
I got it at Walmart

Linda

Linda..thanks for the vote of confidence. Slowly starting to buy my supplies. I looked at Miracle Grow seed starting mix at Home Depot the other day but decided I'd look at other brands and other stores. An employee also told me that as soon as the After Xmas Sales have ended..the seeds would be brought out and put in the racks.

I am a "paint pen" convert, love em, but highly recommend that you stick with basic black. Last year I though I'd get fancy and bought some other colors too and they did not hold up as well, especially red for some reason. The black paint lasted wonderfully.

Nan..I had read that somewhere too about basic black.. this pen says Opaque paint marker..what does Opaque mean when it comes to markers? Stupid Question but just curious!

you can also get the elmers one's at walmart, its called elmers painters. i haven't had a problem with them yet. i bought i big package of them, you can get them in bold, pastel, and i don't remember the other bold kind. but i tell ya, it was well worth it! it was like almost 5 bucks. for 5 pens i believe. :') ~medo

I have not tried black, but silver works really well too.

I'm thinking of buying online or watching for sales. They don't give those away:))

I know black sharpie does NOT hold up. I had tall flowers in the front of my beds due to the use of sharpie - UGH.

pippi21, opaque just means you cant see thru it, it gives a solid color. Transparent being the opposite.
Tammy

pippi21, and translucent means some light gets through, like the milk jugs.

austinnhanasmom, I tried the silver and while it held up just as well as the black, it was harder to see. I tended to cut the jugs all on the same side, so could mark them all as well on the same side and the black was much easier to see.....

I bought my paint pen at Menards,mine is called "Super Met-al*Grip* Paint Marker,same one i used last year, it is great.Comes in White,Black and Yellow.

Seeds are out at Home Depot,in Rockford,Illinois,even have some Organic ones.
cAROL

I saw the Elmers paint pens in about 10 colors at Ocean State Job Lot for $.39 and almost bought a hand full. Fortunately, someone else had openned one and tried it on the cardboard container. It was almost a mini paint brush and too thick to use for labeling. Someone else on this forum mentioned using fine point for WS labeling and the Elmers were anything but fine point. Elmers probably makes several styles and you most likely got the right one. Just a small caution not to be side swept over a bargain like I almost was and with bargains in general, I usually am. That's my two cents but I wonder if I could use those mini Elmer paint brushes for something else .... they were such a bargain (lol)!

I use Mighty Marker , my work carries them! They hold a little more paint then the normal ones.

Well, I finally found some at the Dollar Store which is right on my way home from a regular stop. It's Painters Color Cutter, Black, Elmer's, ink acid free, permanent & non-toxic.

But I get home and see it has a broad tip with an x-acto blade going down the center, recessed in. So I tried it out, you'd have to press hard to do the cutter, lighty the broad tip made two lines, not so good. But turning it on it's side, makes a finer line.

So I think I can live with that if it doesn't fade. $1 each picked up 2. She said I could return them and exchange, even if opened very nice gal. Didn't have the foam curlers for my cloner nor any larger plastic containers I could see but was in a hurry.

The boxes I put my two liters in are cardboard and not going to hold up much longer. My bottles are slid together and not taped. At least I can now try marking them individually. That's why I went in there, looking for a cheap storage box, not putting drainage holes in my more expensive ones.