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Types of Stationery Fetishists

Filed Under Stationery Lover's Life 

You know how it goes: I like nice pens and paper, you have a collection, and she is bloody obsessed!


(Image by Lord Biro)

I told my friend M about my new stationery blog. His reaction: “I like a good notepad, but collecting random pictures of them? Cin, you’re a pen pervert.”

My immediate reaction was to say, “Maybe, but at least I don’t spend hundreds of pounds on an antique collection and gold nibs.” But I bit my tongue. Because the only difference between me and the people who have systematic collections of stationery (other than they’re a bit richer than me), is the degree of our passion: we’re all “pen perverts” in the end. We’re equally alien to the people who have forgotten the sight of their own handwriting.

When I thought about that, I decided to create a typology for stationery fetishists, so that people like my friend M. know who they’re dealing with.

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7 Responses to “Types of Stationery Fetishists”

  1. Rhonda/Remlane1 on September 17th, 2008 12:30 pm

    So, where do organizer perverts fall? Paper perverts? I love organizers (day planners, desk calendars, etc), especially the fresh feel of a new one — must be the air of possibility. I love organizers so much that I have a pile of them.

    A fresh notebook does it, too. Especially a fresh reporter’s notebook.

  2. Cinderberry on September 17th, 2008 12:34 pm

    I think, that’d be “paper perverts”, yes.

    Organisers are not my particular thing, but only because they make me feel guilty for my complete lack of organisation. I can’t deny they’re beautiful, but they *glare* at me. LOL

  3. Cinderberry on September 17th, 2008 12:37 pm

    Although, now that I think of it, the bright pink Filofax that my husband brought home from a conference once was almost unbearably pretty.

  4. Kiwi-d on October 11th, 2008 7:48 pm

    I might well be wrong, but I don’t think you have “officially” categorised yourself according to your typology….?

  5. Cinderberry on October 11th, 2008 10:39 pm

    Kiwi-d, I believe myself to be a chaotic avid admirer, as well as a paper and pen pervert :)

  6. Kiwi-d on October 12th, 2008 1:54 am

    Well fairs fair so I guess I have to classify myself too…

    Specific Pencil Pervert Focused Collector.

    One day if might make an interesting readers poll to see how the blogosphere would categorise you :-)

  7. Cinderberry on October 12th, 2008 6:43 am

    Hmm, a poll is a good idea. I may well do that at some point, actually :)

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