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Thanks! Now that I'm back home (and have been for a while) in Australia, when I look in local stationery stockists and even Daiso stores in my neighbourhood, I just can't stomach paying their asking prices for the same items I bought on the trip, which are loosely threefold what I paid while in Japan.

What a haul! Life Noble Note blanks have been my go-to journals for about a decade. (I love Mnemosyne too but the spiral bindings on most of them don’t work anymore for the system I have in place.) Nobody is doing stationery like the Japanese nowadays, so I’m quite jealous. Congratulations!

While removing tax … I used to make the same mistake.  removing x% tax from the final amount ( be 10% for japan or 21% for europe).   say base price of a pen is 10000 with tax 10% so retail is  10000+ 10000*{ 10/100} = 11000)  so the tax component is only 1000 for 11000 retail price  pen- which is 9.09% of retail price.  For Europe it would come out to be 17.35% not 21off of retail).     base price + base price * tax%= retail Base price( 1+ tax%) = retail

Nice haul. How do you like that Logical paper?

@TMLee Big nibs for the win!