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- My love of office supplies is irrational, but it is pure. Don’t ask me to explain it, just hand over the multi-coloured index cards.
- You may want one expensive present for your birthday. I want several notebooks, some pens, and a box of funky paperclips. Make the pens Montblancs, if it makes you feel better.
- How is sharpening pencils not meditation?
- I could be a writer. If only I could settle on the perfect damn notebook, and find my favourite pen.
- Maybe I should write my book in a dip pen.
- I’m not feeling very well; maybe I should go out and buy a box of pencils to cheer me up.
- Yes, there is a point in owning quills and ink-pots in the 21st century. The quills and the ink-pots *are* the point.
- No, I do not have too many notebooks. Or enough notebooks.
- My stationery will expand to occupy all available space.
- Of course I have a pen on me.
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My favorite “catalog porn” is the Levenger’s catalog. I seem to have fallen off their mailing list. ::gasp! horrors!:: The website’s not the same as glossy pages of pictures of luxurious writing instruments.
Aaaah, but the catalogue is lovely… You can stroke it. *drools*
Great! I am happy to see that others let out that irrational love as well. I am also addicted to office supplies, especially pencils (both wooden and mechanical) and their accessories like erasers and sharpeners, and just can’t get enough of that stuff. I enjoy taking photos and describing them in my gallery with mechanical pencils and my weblog.
Thank you for your blog – keep up the good work!
Gunther
Ruesselsheim/Germany
Hi Gunther, nice to meet a fellow addict!
I have a colleague with a stationery fetish and I would like to get him something for his secret santa present - any suggestions?!
I suggest a Moleskine notepad - they’re universally loved, and you can get them off Amazon or any large bookstore. I don’t know any stationery addict who doesn’t light up when they get one.
Alternatively, if you have Muji stores where you live, browse their stationery section for uber-cute sets of pens, mini-notepads on a keyring and other shiny goodies.
Thats great - thanks for the advice. I shall let you know the response when he opens his presents!