I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[inkypete]

I would like to know how many new notebooks you have.

I am proud to say more than 300. Lift your game!

[Studio97]

I am proud to say more than 300. Lift your game!

You have a notebook store and you are it's only customer.🏆🏆🏆🏆 Just like my art supplies.

[Newjelan]

I suspect I'd call your "built-in" and "walk-in" a "closet"... Though given the rest of your message, closet is probably your shortening of "water-closet"

“Closet” is sometimes used for the cupboard in the entrance area of a house where people can store coats. Closet is used occasionally but is less common than the others. We definitely don’t use the term “water-closet” at all. I think that’s more of an American term? And the Brits use “WC”? In increasing levels of vulgarity, the terms we typically use are “loo”, “toilet”, “dunny” and “bog”.

[DilettanteG]

“Closet” is sometimes used for the cupboard in the entrance area of a house where people can store coats. Closet is used occasionally but is less common than the others. We definitely don’t use the term “water-closet” at all. I think that’s more of an American term? And the Brits use “WC”? In increasing levels of vulgarity, the terms we typically use are “loo”, “toilet”, “dunny” and “bog”.

 

I'm a California native and as I far as I know we usually use the terms bathroom and restroom, nether of which makes much sense and both of which seem weirdly prudish. As a nation, we've been strangely reluctant to adopt practical toilet related items as well. I installed Japanese toilet seat bidets in our house and I've yet to see one in anyone else's or in a commercial establishment. They can be pretty pricey, but they're still much cheaper than a full sized bidet. Maybe it's a cost thing?

 

Here's the hilarious review which talked me in to it: https://gizmodo.com/the-swash-1000-bidet-toilet-seat-review-this-will-chan-5887473

 

Water closet seems to be an antiquated British term. I've read it in old novels, but I've never heard anyone actually say it aloud.

 

Just a note: No affiliation with any seller/manufacturer/business of any kind.

[Runnin_Ute]

The Graduate Hotel Field Notes I mentioned earlier showed up in my mailbox on Saturday.

[Misfit]

We use the terms bathroom and restroom in flyover land too. I always thought WC was British as well.

 

I’m going to ask for pocket size Leuchtturm and A5 Leuchtturm notebooks, plus a Midori 5 year Diary for my birthday. I really do not need another A5 Leuchtturm but if I order it (for my parents to give me) from the US Leuchtturm site, I can get it in Chocolate brown. And they have the Ex Libris edition in colors too. Not sure about that one because I could turn a regular A5 into a book log/journal.

 

Yet still an amateur among you with hundreds.

[ethernautrix]

IIRC, one "made water" (making water=urinating); thus, the water closet.

 

I also believe it's British phrasing.

[DilettanteG]

You have a notebook store and you are it's only customer. Just like my art supplies.

 

I kind of love this. Chez Dilettante is now officially part home, part upscale boutique.

 

I scored two soft cover travel journals off of eBay. Due to a glitch, I had to rebuy the python one and added a brown crocodile print cover version to the cart. I think I'd actually feel better if they were really made from the skins of giant snakes and monster death lizards, but I think they're actually made out of adorable baby cows. Just like my saddles and favorite riding boots. I'm going to hell for this, aren't I?

[Misfit]

I bought 3 more notebooks from philosophersguild.com.

[DilettanteG]

So, I mentioned a little over a week ago that I decided to give myself two softcover Graphic image 5" x 7" Travel journals (for my birthday) which arrived today. The seller even threw in a lovely, matching double sided card holder, which was fun. These will hopefully be my last journal purchases for a few years.

 

 

Okay, I may have my eye on another one, but that's it, I tell you!

[amberleadavis]

Stunning!

[XYZZY]

So, I mentioned a little over a week ago that I decided to give myself two softcover Graphic image 5" x 7" Travel journals (for my birthday) which arrived today. The seller even threw in a lovely, matching double sided card holder, which was fun. These will hopefully be my last journal purchases for a few years.

 

 

Okay, I may have my eye on another one, but that's it, I tell you!

The Texan in me looks at those and thinks "boots would have been a better use". Boots or not, those are pretty nice.

[DilettanteG]

The Texan in me looks at those and thinks "boots would have been a better use". Boots or not, those are pretty nice.

 

The dressage rider in me agrees with you. I really don't need new boots, but they're so pretty!

 

[XYZZY]

 

The dressage rider in me agrees with you. I really don't need new boots, but they're so pretty!

 

 

Touché

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

“Closet” is sometimes used for the cupboard in the entrance area of a house where people can store coats. Closet is used occasionally but is less common than the others. We definitely don’t use the term “water-closet” at all. I think that’s more of an American term? And the Brits use “WC”? In increasing levels of vulgarity, the terms we typically use are “loo”, “toilet”, “dunny” and “bog”.

Today I learned why we say WC in Italian and what it stands for. Thank you : )

 

 

By the way, here to update you all that I've explored a few stationery shops in town in the past month, touching and groping the pages of notebooks like some kind of pervert in search of thick and smooth paper. I don't know what NZ brands have against marking the grams per square meter on their notebooks, so I had to resort to such extreme measures.

Which led me to find a decent quality paper in the 1A8 Exercise Book (blank) of Warwick, a common NZ brand which manufactures school notebooks. It's fp friendly and slightly textured. This is the first fp friendly notebook I could find here so far and I'm overjoyed.

[DilettanteG]

Today I learned why we say WC in Italian and what it stands for. Thank you : )

 

 

By the way, here to update you all that I've explored a few stationery shops in town in the past month, touching and groping the pages of notebooks like some kind of pervert in search of thick and smooth paper. I don't know what NZ brands have against marking the grams per square meter on their notebooks, so I had to resort to such extreme measures.

Which led me to find a decent quality paper in the 1A8 Exercise Book (blank) of Warwick, a common NZ brand which manufactures school notebooks. It's fp friendly and slightly textured. This is the first fp friendly notebook I could find here so far and I'm overjoyed.

 

The only Italian paper I think I've tried is Pineider's stationery, and it's exquisite. Going from that to New Zealand must be a serious culture shock.

[BaronWulfraed]

Today I learned why we say WC in Italian and what it stands for. Thank you : )

 

And just to drag it deeper into the muck... https://theweek.com/articles/580173/brief-history-lavatory-language

[displacermoose]

I've been really, really good lately. But now its planner season and JetPens is filling my email with temptation. I don't know how long I can resist.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

 

The only Italian paper I think I've tried is Pineider's stationery, and it's exquisite. Going from that to New Zealand must be a serious culture shock.

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around many things, yes. But I'll live here for the next three years so I'm trying to accept things as they are as swiftly as possible and learn to appreciate and treasure the interesting little quirks of such a different environment and people. : )

 

 

 

And just to drag it deeper into the muck... https://theweek.com/articles/580173/brief-history-lavatory-language

Haha, thank you!

[DilettanteG]

I went into an honest to god brick and mortar bookstore yesterday for the first time in years. I impulse bought a Leuchtturm 1917 in copper and am not impressed. I wrote a couple of words with my Montblanc 146 with a medium nib, normally a pen that works well with most paper, and it smeared on the first page, rubbed off on the facing page, and shadowed through the back of the page. Not my cup of tea (and thank god for that as I have plenty of journals and do not need to collect yet another kind.)

 

Amazingly, I got out of there only buying this journal and a single paperback. Normally, I can't get out of a bookstore without an armload of books. So, one book may be a record for me.