You Know You've Exceeded The Fountain Pen Limit When....

[markh]

You need to clean ink splash dots off your computer monitor.

 

Several times, recently.......

 

 

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[Addertooth]

....when your original estimate of pen cases you will need in the next year... is woefully short.

[Intensity]

...when your desk pen tray is woefully inadequate and you temporarily use a molded, flocked plastic pen drawer insert with 18 slots, and it's actually about right for the job...

[langere]

When you have a ten-pen case pen display that is overflowing because that is where you put the new pens that you still have to use and haven't gotten around to yet...

[silverlifter]

You have more pens than bottles of ink...

[sirgilbert357]

You have your pens delivered to your office...because you haven't figured out how to tell the spouse you bought another one... I'll think of something though.

[inkstainedruth]

When you buy a storage unit to consolidate the stash and haven't yet put it together, but then buy ANOTHER storage unit.

Also, when you have six year old ink samples you've never tried, but still keep buying inks....

And when you have inked up more pens than you can functionally use and then ink up ANOTHER ONE....

Yes. Guilty as charged on all counts, your honor....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bibliophage]

When you buy a storage unit to consolidate the stash and haven't yet put it together, but then buy ANOTHER storage unit.

Also, when you have six year old ink samples you've never tried, but still keep buying inks....

And when you have inked up more pens than you can functionally use and then ink up ANOTHER ONE....

Yes. Guilty as charged on all counts, your honor....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

What size storage unit? 5x5x8, or 10x10x10

[Jerome Tarshis]

You have more pens than bottles of ink...

 

When I had one fountain pen, I had fewer pens than bottles of ink, having had two bottles. Of the same ink.

 

When I leapt from one to three fountain pens, I had more pens than bottles of ink, though not an immoderate number of pens. I can still count bottles of ink on the fingers of one hand, but the number of pens is something I think I'd prefer not to discuss with my family.

[almoore]

When you think you only have a 'couple' of pens inked up and when you count the reality it's serious double figures

[JulieParadise]

... you have enough free and clean pens so you can relax and wait until December to fill one pen a day with the ink of the day from Diamine's Inkvent calendar.

[ethernautrix]

...you don't bother to paint over the ink spatters on the wall, cos... inevitibality. (You push the bookcase against that part of the wall. Now your dining table is covered in ink spatters. So you call it the work table.)

[SpecTP]

you open a kitchen drawer and there's a fountain pen in it

[Bibliophage]

you open a kitchen drawer and there's a fountain pen in it

Wait.. I keep buying those drawer lots on E-Bay. So, do _I_ have too many, or did they?

[DonLeone]

... when you find random relatively expensive pens you forgot you had, in random places.

[praxim]

... when there are none left on ebay.

[sansenri]

you don't remember whether you have already bought that pen or not...

[almoore]

you don't remember whether you have already bought that pen or not...

 

 

That's happened once to often!!!

[miwishi63]

...you stop caring about whether you've actually reached your limit.

[Waltz For Zizi]

When it takes you longer than a year to rotate them once