I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[majorworks]

Nice gift. I use my TN for journaling on everything anything. I prefer blank pages. Write draw scribble paste ...leave a trail of pasta sauce on pg 10...great lunch, so noted.

 

It's a great gift from someone who knows me well; past gifts include a set comprising a Pilot Prera (smoothest EF nib I have) and three 15-mL Iroshizuku inks.

 

Yeah, I just gotta get a little crazy and lose my inhibitions with this TN. It'll probably be good for me. God knows I need to loosen up a little.

[Misfit]

Hi majorworks,

 

It takes some time, or it did for me, to go from wanting then getting then using the TN. It took me awhile also, after I was given it, to use it. The calendar insert Weekly with Memo is what got me to use it.

 

Here is a link to check out here on FPN

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/243462-how-did-you-customize-your-midori-travelers-notebook/

 

It shows how people customized their TNs.

[Studio97]

I believe in May I had walked away from 4 ARC 8.5 x 11 hardbound notebooks with excellent heavy paper. I checked again in a few days and they were gone. But today there were 4 more at $2.98 EA again (normally around $15 ea.) Couldnt escape this time. They are really nice.

Edited July 1, 2019 by Studio97

[Misfit]

Wowie that’s a great buy.

 

I have never tried Arc, but I have tried Levenger Circa and Office Depot Tul. As far as the notebook covers, while Tul has deeper inside slots, Circa is the higher quality notebook. It costs like it too, so you need deals to get those.

 

Levenger has a get to know Circa product that costs $40, but includes a $40 Levenger gift card. You can make two notebooks out of it, letter and junior size. The $40 gift card, plus sales put the Circa notebooks at a much better price.

[Studio97]

See my post on may 17. I walked away from $2.98 each then. I couldnt leave them this time. I have 3 sizes of the ARC disc notebooks. 17 of the med size at two to five dollars each with leather covers. I love clearance shelves.

Edited July 1, 2019 by Studio97

[amberleadavis]

. I understand.

[Gloucesterman]

Wowie that’s a great buy.

 

I have never tried Arc, but I have tried Levenger Circa and Office Depot Tul. As far as the notebook covers, while Tul has deeper inside slots, Circa is the higher quality notebook. It costs like it too, so you need deals to get those.

 

Levenger has a get to know Circa product that costs $40, but includes a $40 Levenger gift card. You can make two notebooks out of it, letter and junior size. The $40 gift card, plus sales put the Circa notebooks at a much better price.

If you buy a "Circa" then invest in an "Arc" or "Circa" hole punch. That way you can use any and all types of paper AND, if you get the heavier duty punchers you can create dividers/partitions, and use any material to notebook enhancements.

Just my two cents...

[Misfit]

It’s not enough I have 5 Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks. I was browsing internet style, for pocket size Port Red, and found the Leuchtturm USA website. You can get the Chocolate brown A5 size there! So of course I want it.

 

I have convinced myself I’ll do better with Project FeederWatch bird counting this Fall if I have a notebook I like as much as the first one I’d used. Why didn’t I get two of that version? It’s gone now. It was a spiral notebook I got from Barnes and Noble online. Leuchtturm notebooks lay flat enough that it should work for bird counting.

 

I’m not a bad enough sad and pathetic one because I have not bought them yet. Maybe there will be a better deal on July 4. They are offering free shipping.

[DilettanteG]

This is beginning to feel more like a confessional.

 

I bought my first pad of Tomoe River paper as I obviously needed it to get the most out of the sheening inks I also ordered. Then, I paid for four more of my favorite calfskin hard cover journals for 60% off on eBay. This is after buying a moldy mildewy smelling soft cover one a few months ago and swearing off eBay journals absolutely forever. Apparently I had my fingers crossed behind my back...

 

Is there methadone for stationery addiction?

[amberleadavis]

Which covers did you buy?

[DilettanteG]

Which covers did you buy?

 

I don't think this is for me, but I'm going to answer anyway: Black, Navy, and the discontinued Red. I'm going to try and get some more, if the seller has extras. I go thru 3-4 per year, so I can't bring myself to pay full price for these babies.

 

https://www.graphicimage.com/9_Hardcover_Journal_Blue_Traditional_Leather_p/mll-tr1-blu.htm

 

I do miss being able to have them stamped in gold with my initials and the volume number, but not enough to pay full price for it.

[majorworks]

My daughter and I happened to be in NYC yesterday, and oh, geez, we just "happened" to be in the vicinity of Kinokuniya. What a coincidence! (not really, we had every intention of going there. She's as much a stationery junkie as I am.)

 

I showed remarkable restraint considering the enormous trove of goodies on offer. Kinokuniya's prices are no small inducement in that regard. I left with only connecting bands for my new Traveler's Notebook, as well as a 006 Pocket Sticker and a 002 grid-lined refill. I was a little disappointed at the selection of refills in stock for a regular-size TN. I went looking for a lined refill and a weekly/memo calendar insert but they had neither.

 

My kid left with a little Maruman Mnemosyne notepad and some Kaweco black cartridges for the FP she'd bought on Saturday at MUJI (junkie that she is).

[Runnin_Ute]

Picked up a ream of HP Premium 32 lb laserjet paper last week. The paper I had been using for my printer here at one was nearly gone. Told my wife we needed to get some more. I got the 32 lb for me, and I will put some of the 24 lb I have in my desk on the printer... Oh, and because I signed up for Office Depot's program, I got 20% off, so I saved about $5 before tax.

[DilettanteG]

So, if an eBay seller had your favorite journals and you bought their entire stock so that you'd have five years worth, but they were 60% off the retail price, would that be bad?

 

Asking for a friend.

[A Smug Dill]

@DilettanteG , if those consumables are actually going to be used in the projected timeframe, and the likelihood of either the price dropping to even lower levels or a cheaper-but-just-as-good alternative becomes available is slim, then no, it isn't 'bad'. I mean, if your friend really wants to he/she can factor in inflation, storage/warehousing costs and all that, but all things considered the only real 'risk' is in not actually using the purchased consumables.

[DilettanteG]

@DilettanteG , if those consumables are actually going to be used in the projected timeframe, and the likelihood of either the price dropping to even lower levels or a cheaper-but-just-as-good alternative becomes available is slim, then no, it isn't 'bad'. I mean, if your friend really wants to he/she can factor in inflation, storage/warehousing costs and all that, but all things considered the only real 'risk' is in not actually using the purchased consumables.

 

 

I like the way you think, sir.

 

And I may have made up the friend bit.

[A Smug Dill]

It's okay, I just went crazy getting a bunch of Peter Pauper Press 'Blue Dragonflies' stationery sets from a national department store chain, which my fiancée and I spotted while shopping on the weekend for stationery on which to write or print our wedding invitations. It wasn't offered at any discount in the actual store, but someone the head office decided to offer an online-only discount of 30% — with free delivery, once you spend a certain amount — and so I bought all the available packs, and there will be plenty left over after the wedding invitations are done, if we actually go with using it for that at all. (I haven't decided yet, since it's a lot of writing to do, and it seems such a waste to laser-print on that paper.) I haven't even tried writing on the paper with a fountain pen or dip pen to see how it fares! All I've read from very brief user 'reviews' or comments is that others haven't observed feathering on the paper.

 

Mind you, I do have the option of just taking unused packs back to the store for refund within 60 days.

[JulieParadise]

Double post, sorry.

Edited July 16, 2019 by JulieParadise

[JulieParadise]

There is a German saying, "paper can wait" or "paper is patient" ("Papier kann warten", "Papier ist geduldig") which I have always extended to empty paper, too, so I guess you should tell your friend to hit the _buy!_ button and go for it. May the paper then sit for years to come ...

[DilettanteG]

There is a German saying, "paper can wait" or "paper is patient" ("Papier kann warten", "Papier ist geduldig") which I have always extended to empty paper, too, so I guess you should tell your friend to hit the _buy!_ button and go for it. May the paper then sit for years to come ...

 

 

This is the kind of solid, German reasoning that's resulted in producing my favorite pens (Pelikan) and my favorite horses (Hanoverian.)