Inky T O D - Have You Ever Stopped Using An Ink Because You Are Hoarding It?

[amberleadavis]

So, Lapis has been known to count inks (instead of sheep), and I'm not guilty of that ..... nope, I dream about colors!

 

If I could draw well, I would show a dragon asleep across bottles of ink. So, are you one of those dragons who is sleeping on unopened bottles of Parker Penman Sapphire or Skrip Peacock blue?

 

If you are ... tell us what you are hoarding.

 

If you aren't ... tell us why we are crazy.

 

[sadiemagic]

I most definitely am a dragon....I am sleeping on two unopened, and one opened, bottles of Parker Penman Sapphire. Also sleeping on a nearly full bottle of Parker Penman Emerald.

 

I occasionally fill a pen from the opened PPS bottle, but very very rarely.

 

(I also have two bottles of MB Blue-black, but that's not an ink I'm fond of. I bought it from my local B&M store after it was announced it would not be available in the US. I think I had hopes of using it to swap for some other no-longer available ink, such as MB racing green, but never got around to posting them in the classifieds.)

[Komitadjie]

Nope, all my inks are current production, and at the rate I use 'em, they'll be antique before I run out.

[dcwaites]

it's not doing anything in a bottle but aging. I bought my special inks because I like them and want to see them on paper. Picture me as a dragon (wearing spectacles*) with quill in hand, dipped in a bottle of Penman Sapphire.

 

 

 

 

*Dragons are too dignified to have mere glasses.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Today, after reading other threads similar, I decided to use up my rare inks. Started today.

 

I'm 66, a shock to me....don't feel it, don't even think about it....but strokes and heart attack can happen at any time...prefer the latter, can happen at any time. My God.....Mick Jagger is older than Sinatra!!!!

 

Be hell to have a stroke and have to try to learn to write left handed....wouldn't do it...to much smear...go back to ball points, and learn to slur into my computer. I got books to write.

[Bookman]

I like to have one unopened bottle of each of my favorite inks so there's no interruption. It's never gotten beyond that. I can't relate to hoarding inks. But I can relate to hoarding paper.

[ellenspn]

Must have ALL THE COLORS!

 

Ahem....

[alarickc]

I have three bottles of Edlstein Amber and will probably pick up another two bottles of Garnet when the time comes. I'll use them though, I see no reason to hoard ink if you'll never use it. As it is though I wouldn't have to hoard much of any particular ink to have it last a lifetime. I use so many colors that no one bottle sees that much use.

[WaskiSquirrel]

When an ink runs out it runs out. Admittedly I have 2 bottles of J. Herbin 1670, mostly because I must have marked the wrong quantity when I ordered my bottle. It that's the last time for an ink, so be it. It does me more good if I actually use it than it does sitting in the bottle because I know I'll never get to use it again.

[basepaired]

I'm sitting on a single bottle of Levenger Pinkly, purchased before it was dc'd. It does not go unused, but I assume I will never find another bottle, so I am pretty sparing with it.

 

That said, I don't have more than one bottle of any given ink, so I tell myself I'm not so much 'hoarding' as I am 'collecting'.

[Davros]

I buy ink for the pleasure of using it. I have bought multiple bottles of a few inks that I use, but I don't save it. Save it for what? When? If you like it, what are you waiting for? If you don't want to use it, why do you have it? I can dimly understand "special inks" that you use more rarely, but not untouchable inks.

 

When a bottle is gone, that just means that you move on to the next bottle(s). I will be sad if a color I like runs out and can't be replaced, because I can't use it. But if I don't use the ink, then . . . I'm not using it anyway, so . . . what difference does it make?

 

I'll miss my Sailor LE when they're gone, but there might be replacements, or new inks I like as well, or they might bring them back, or maybe they're gone forever, but as least while they were here, I loved them, and I can reread what I wrote with them.

 

I *am* guilty of holding onto inks that I once loved, but don't currently care for, because my affections for certain colors are fickle, but I think of that less as hoarding than as waiting for the seasons to turn, like putting away your winter jacket until it's cold again.

[inkstainedruth]

A bit.

I have a bottle of what I think is the reformulated Noodler's Army Green. The one that there was so much uproar about the color change that Nathan Tardif went back to the original formula. Except I really liked the color. And since I can't get it anymore, yeah, hoarding a bit.

OTOH, I have a couple of bottles of vintage Quink Brown, and the only reason I'm holding on to the second bottle is for when the first runs out. And given that the first bottle was about 2/3-3/4 full when I bought it, and it's a 4 oz bottle -- and I have boatloads of other inks as well), I'm not expecting to run out anytime soon.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bookman]

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I *am* guilty of holding onto inks that I once loved, but don't currently care for, because my affections for certain colors are fickle, but I think of that less as hoarding than as waiting for the seasons to turn, like putting away your winter jacket until it's cold again.

 

Same here. Instead of hoarding, my instinct early on was to dump or give away ink I thought I would never use again. I turned 180 degrees and have repeatedly been thankful I did. But I suppose refusing to discard what you don't want anymore is the first step toward becoming a hoarder. I can't throw that away: some day I might need it.

[Bo Bo Olson]

No longer made....found out about it afterwards...find it by luck, affordable.

fondle it like the precious ring.

Enough to last a bit....a bottle and a half, two bottles and a half.

Rare.

 

Pennman Sapphire cartridges; old Carter inks,'90's Pelikan cartridges, new limited inks...from five years ago.

Only able to afford one bottle of a limited edition.

Rare inks.

MB Diamond...two bottles, Sepia..... 1 1/2. Two or was that three...old brown MB Christmas ink.

 

Inks one can not order...or must pay three times it's once new price.

Rare inks.

I have reached the awareness, it is time...tomorrow is owned by the young.

 

Use up the rare Fun inks...yep.

 

Beats the hell out of selling them for their real worth.

Edited May 9, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

[orfew]

I have one bottle of MB Blue Black and one of MB Midnight Blue. I love both of these colours and since they are both out of production, I have been holding on to them.

[pajaro]

At 65 there's little point in hoarding, I'm not going to live forever. I am using my MB Racing Green and Blue Black. I bought some old Sheaffer blue black, and am using it pretty fast. I've used up all my Noodler's, all Pelikan. I have a bottle of Diamine black green to use when the MB Racing Green is all gone. A bottle of old Sheaffer Royal Blue. Not sure I like it. Onward and upward.

[WC Lee]

Nope, all my inks are current production, and at the rate I use 'em, they'll be antique before I run out.

 

same here

[Runnin_Ute]

The closest I come to hoarding an ink is my Pelikan 4001 Blue Black which only gets used in my Pelikan 120 Merz & Krell with EF nib. Try to not have to purchase from overseas as long as possible since it is no longer available in the US.

[PAKMAN]

I might have a wee stash (6 unopened bottles) of Penman Sapphire that won't likely see the light of day anytime soon. But I do have a couple of bottles that have been opened and are occasionally used.

 

[Lorna Reed]

I have three bottles of Caran d'Ache Caribbean Sea, purchased when it was discontinued and stored away. I'm not a hoarder so I will be using them as and when required. They should last me a very long time as I'm not a heavy ink user.