Picky, picky
Guitar picks are frustrating little critters. They are very easy to lose. In the first several days of practicing I had two picks disappear without a trace. Their thin small size makes them easy to lose even in a pants pocket. Leave them on the couch and they are gone. Sometimes when I am playing they fly out of my hand and are gone. They also tend to fly into the guitar’s sound hole, and those are really fun to shake out. My son bought a pick dispenser that attaches to the guitar. It holds about 10 picks in a spring loaded case that makes them easy and fast to pull out.
Now picks only run about 25 cents each but it’s still not fun to lose them, and if you do hang on to them for any length of time they will wear out. Either way you will need new picks eventually.
One of the nifty gadgets my lovely wife found for my son when he started playing was a pick maker. Just imagine a large heavy duty hole punch that can cut old bank and gift cards and spit out picks.
We turned a handful of old cards into 36 picks in a matter of minutes. That’s comes to nine dollars saved. 
With all of the different cards you can come up with some very unique designs. This nice nativity card from Walmart was getting tossed in the trash right after it was emptied. They don’t reuse them, and all we had to do was ask for it back. 
Different cards have different thicknesses also and can give a little different action on the strings when turned into picks. The guitar shops sell tapered and feathered edged picks along with various shapes colors and sizes.
If you are careful you can punch out five picks per card. If there are pictures or designs you want to save you might only get three or four. It’s going to be awhile before we need any more picks.
