Unnatural Love: Pens, Stationery, Office Supplies

[octoprof]

Do you drool in the office supply store? Do you seek out stationery stores every time you travel?

What is your unnatural love in the office supply/stationery store category? Give us all the juicy details.



Hello, my name is o. and I am a fountain pen addict. I have a ridiculously huge collection of mostly affordable German made fountain pens. I adore writing with them and using a variety of inks. I am not ashamed.

[polly_mer]

Hello, my name is PM and I have strategic stockpiles of sticky notes.  I have recently branched out into dry erase static notes to change my office wall into a color-coded calendar.

[aside]

Hello, my name is A.  I have an inordinate fondness for binder clips.  They keep my hands busy (interthreaduality).  I cannot part with them.

[ciao_yall]

Hello, my name is PM and I have strategic stockpiles of sticky notes.  I have recently branched out into dry erase static notes to change my office wall into a color-coded calendar.

Are we twins, separated at birth?

[irhack]

Facebook sends me ads for planners I don't need but desperately want. Has anyone even gotten one of them? Ink & Volt? Hobonichi? Drool....

[Conjugate]

Hello, my name is A.  I have an inordinate fondness for binder clips.  They keep my hands busy (interthreaduality).  I cannot part with them.

Yes, the small ones are great for holding 25 to 30 one-page quizzes together.

My wife says to tell you about her, as she has to order her stationery from England.  Baselton Bond, I think.

[ergative]

Yayyy! This one again!

Fountain pens. Just fountain pens.

[archaeo42]

Small to medium notebooks of heavy stock paper. I can't resist them.

[eigen]

I love my Levenger writing pads. Great paper, heavy duty, pleasure to write on.

[ciao_yall]

Ooh - and my quad-ruled spiral bound notebooks. Hard to find outside of back-to-school season.

[octoprof]

Yayyy! This one again!

Fountain pens. Just fountain pens.

My people!

[mamselle]

A good goose quill, well-pointed, and a strong brown ironweed/alum ink are all anyone really needs in life.

Honestly!!

M.

[ergative]

A good goose quill, well-pointed, and a strong brown ironweed/alum ink are all anyone really needs in life.

Honestly!!

M.

I've found that quills are better suited for broad-nib work. For proper pointed pen work you really need a steel nib. The goose quills, no matter how well seasoned, can't hold a point.

As for ink, my go-to preference is walnut.

[mamselle]

Perhaps, but my supplier, Mr. Holbrook, is out of steel nibs at the moment, and I refuse to patronize that Anglican Tory, Mr. Price....

M.

[ergative]

Perhaps, but my supplier, Mr. Holbrook, is out of steel nibs at the moment, and I refuse to patronize that Anglican Tory, Mr. Price....

M.

I would not dream of asking you to compromise your principles. Perhaps this resource can suggest to you a different supplier.