IKEA pencil

IKEA pencils are small pencils provided for free in IKEA stores worldwide. The IKEA pencil has been known for the wide variety of designs. Through the years the color changed from blue, to yellow to the natural color of wood nowadays. Despite the different colors, its dimensions have always been 7x87mm.
Ikea orders 5.2 million pencils yearly for its Canadian stores alone. The pencils are commonly stolen, with Korea seeing particularly high rates of theft, but an official said: "We do not care about the pencils. We just put out new pencils if they run out."
The company does not disapprove of customers that put them to other uses such as craft projects or works of art. The Dutch artist Judith Delleman constructed a chair out of hundreds of them. They are used in surgery as well: IKEA pencils are often used to mark osteotomy cuts in craniofacial and maxillofacial surgery.

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