In Search of a Dignified Pencil Case

I enjoy order, organization, and categorization to a downright anal degree; unfortunately I am also a little lazy and more than a little absent minded, so pretty much everything I'm responsible for tends to develop along a frankenstienian filing scheme that neatly labels and sorts and re-sorts and cross sorts a narrow selection of what needs to be sorted while the rest is allowed to pile up in the corners until I skim a layer off for over-sorting.

So needless to say, I like for everything to have a home of some kind, so I can funnel any sort of overflow into the system quickly and easily. I love cases and containers; the more little partitions they have, the better. I had a great one for my Warhammer 40K minatures back in the day, which could ferry my poorly painted hordes across the city in red packing-foamed splendor.

But what I've been interested in for awhile now is a classy pencil case; most of the ones you see in stores are loudly colored enough to double as reflective signals for avalanche stranded skiiers or mini traffic pylons. Never mind bringing these things to school; I don't even like the look of them on my desk.

So when I saw a decent compromise between my expectations/desires/hopes and what is exists in actual fact at Grand & Toy the other day, I jumped on it: a Vaultz(that's right, with a z dawg) locking pencil case. It's sturdy and professional looking, but still not quite my ideal pencil repository.



So I'm still on the hunt and open to suggestions; my next avenue of inquiry will be into Cigar boxes/humidors, though the latter may be a little expensive and over-equipped for my needs(they tend to have some kind of humidity moderating device installed inside the lid). I'm looking for James Bond's pencil case, really, though mine won't need to shoot anything or blow up on command. Won't need to, mind you.