I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[N1003U]

1 hour ago, inkypete said:

Anyone bought anything this week because they wanted rather than needed it?

This week no, but next week I will be in the city and will visit a couple of stationery shops, so I suspect there will be a desired, but unnecessary purchase.

[A Smug Dill]

1 hour ago, inkypete said:

Anyone bought anything this week because they wanted rather than needed it?

 

Daiso here now has some made-in-Japan 100-piece word cards on a metal ring. When I last tried Daiso's made-in-Indonesia word cards products, they were a disaster with fountain pen inks. More fool me; I bought a pack of these new ones, just to see how well they work. (No, I haven't tested them yet; what I meant was I certainly don't need them.)

 

52 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

I still want one cos Smug has one.

 

Two, actually.

[amberleadavis]

5 hours ago, inkypete said:

Anyone bought anything this week because they wanted rather than needed it?

 

I found a Gartner invitation kit for $5 at the thrift store. I'll use it to send out letters. 

[inkypete]

5 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Daiso here now has some made-in-Japan 100-piece word cards on a metal ring. When I last tried Daiso's made-in-Indonesia word cards products, they were a disaster with fountain pen inks. More fool me; I bought a pack of these new ones, just to see how well they work. (No, I haven't tested them yet; what I meant was I certainly don't need them.)

 

 

Two, actually.

I bought a few word cards with a plastic ring - made in Brazil. Grid ruled, they are excellent. But that was at least 6 months ago, maybe more. Down to my last packet so interested to hear how your purchase is as it is probably my option now at Daiso.

[mhguda]

I made another DIY notebook, using laser paper that I think was my mother's (before she passed). I don't need another one of those, but ... you know how it is... and making them is always restful.

[Runnin_Ute]

This arrived just this week. The pen (Ranga Psp Zaynte Z2) and Apica CD11 Notebooks on Thursday, the Tomoe River notebooks on Friday. Thursday's arrival included a bottle of Herbin Lie de The'.

[Misfit]

I got this notebook today. I was very lucky to find it back in stock. I have a similar notebook with the NASA logo on front of it. Probably why I didn’t order this one sooner. Since the James Webb Space Telescope launched into space this year, it’s fitting to have the notebook.  I’ll always love Hubble ST more.   The flash took away the gold on the left. 
 

[essayfaire]

A medium-size box arrived from Pen Chalet today and I thought it must contain some back-ordered ink (it wasn't a teeny box!).  I was shocked to find that I must have ordered this writing paper when I noticed it on sale, and had completely forgotten about it.

 

It really should have gone in a padded envelope...

[inkypete]

On 3/14/2022 at 11:29 AM, Runnin_Ute said:

This arrived just this week. The pen (Ranga Psp Zaynte Z2) and Apica CD11 Notebooks on Thursday, the Tomoe River notebooks on Friday. Thursday's arrival included a bottle of Herbin Lie de The'.

Love Apica - simple design, quality paper, affordable.

[Misfit]

Will/did anyone buy a Trapper Keeper that came out last year?  I got one in what they call Space. I got additional folders to hold the letters I need to answer. Walmart still has them, and I might have put another one in my grocery pickup cart. It’s called Shapes. I’m not sure if I’ll leave it in the shopping cart. 
 

I don’t think I had one as a kid, though from what I’ve read they would have been available. Maybe they didn’t get to the town I grew up in. Not really sure. 

[amberleadavis]

I had a great time at the Daiso store.

 

 

[mhguda]

Hmmm that looks like a very successful haul.

[Linger]

Someone showed me a nice Christmas wish received on a small, elegant piece of paper adorned with yellow narcissus. And so it began. Again. It was seasonal letter paper from Midori and the hunt was on...by now I think I have more that half a dozen designs, most of course unused still, and the search continues. Primarily to all none-pink motives. Nice new addiction!

 

Here is my main source:

 

https://www.sakurafountainpengallery.com/en/boutique/midori-papier-en-plezier

[InkyKitten]

On 3/6/2022 at 2:24 AM, inkypete said:

Anyone bought anything this week because they wanted rather than needed it?

Yeah, I got a LAMY Al-Star even though I have a Safari, Vista and LX. And they are technically the same pen. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Misfit]

Even though graph paper isn’t my favorite, I really wanted series E of Field Notes National Parks series. 
 

[Misfit]

I placed two orders for yet more notebooks. This time I ordered Rollbahn notebooks that I learned about on the Three Staples blog. 
 

I also ordered a Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter A6 cover for Field Notes notebooks. I got it on a Canadian website. The configurator at the Roterfaden website only does A5 size now. I wanted the old dance floor covers (strong ballet mat material). I found one in pigeon blue.  Could have gotten black, but I didn’t want that color. 

[Misfit]

I got a letter from the USPS indicating they couldn’t process my credit card for the order I placed. Instead of filling it out, I reordered.  Part of the order is the Title IX Field Notes collaboration with the USPS, plus Global stamps featuring the African Daisy. 

[AmandaW]

8 minutes ago, Misfit said:

African Daisy

The pink, purple and white ones? Osteospermums?  I grow those in my garden! Lots of them.

[A Smug Dill]

After reading just the first part of Sönke Ahrens's book (referenced in this other thread), and feeling that its core idea resounded with me† and is something I wish I'd come across 25 years ago, I went and bought four more 200-piece packs of ruled index cards (JAN: 4 984355 711292) from Daiso, after checking that the paper's performance with fountain pen inks is quite acceptable, as well as two plastic boxes to serve as ‘slip-boxes’.

 

I only bought four packs, even though there were more on the shelf, because it appears they came from two different production batches; the other packs were not as white, and the pinkish-red line near the top of each card is noticeably thicker than on the packs I bought.

 

 

† I was just asking my wife, while we were at her “writer's retreat” in the mountains a couple of weeks ago, how she organises her notes and ideas for what she writes, since I'm struggling with getting on with the ‘book’ I intend to write. Not getting what I deem useful-for-me ideas from me, I came to the conclusion I may need index cards in order to easily re-sort ideas, and that's why I bought the first pack last week from Daiso to give it a go; and then the Ahrens book, which I'd placed on reserve many weeks ago, finally came in. Very odd that everything just aligns!

[Gloucesterman]

12 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

TAfter reading just the first part of Sönke Ahrens's book (referenced in this other thread), and feeling that its core idea resounded with me† and is something I wish I'd come across 25 years ago, I went and bought four more 200-piece packs of ruled index cards (JAN: 4 984355 711292) from Daiso, after checking that the paper's performance with fountain pen inks is quite acceptable, as well as two plastic boxes to serve as ‘slip-boxes’.

 

I only bought four packs, even though there were more on the shelf, because it appears they came from two different production batches; the other packs were not as white, and the pinkish-red line near the top of each card is noticeably thicker than on the packs I bought.

 

 

† I was just asking my wife, while we were at her “writer's retreat” in the mountains a couple of weeks ago, how she organises her notes and ideas for what she writes, since I'm struggling with getting on with the ‘book’ I intend to write. Not getting what I deem useful-for-me ideas from me, I came to the conclusion I may need index cards in order to easily re-sort ideas, and that's why I bought the first pack last week from Daiso to give it a go; and then the Ahrens book, which I'd placed on reserve many weeks ago, finally came in. Very odd that everything just aligns!

Could simply be synchronicity!