I am! Just can’t help myself. Even as a child, I always loved starting each new year off at school with new exercise books to write in, or for my birthday or Christmas, receiving stationery notepads, with pretty images and fresh clean pages. To start a story in a brand new hardcovered book, writing in my best neat handwriting – there is nothing like it!
I’ve always enjoyed writing and so I guess the freshness of a new book or writing pad, just adds to that enjoyment. Although these days my fingers are more on the keyboard, than around a pen and on a writing pad. Might explain why I enjoy setting up computers and installing new software…
The team and I had a discussion about this several months ago and it seems they all are stationery junkies and then today my assistant (works part-time in my office) admitted she is too. Must go with the job – all that admin, paperwork, etc. We were discussing our favourite store to shop in – Officeworks of all places! I know there are other stationery companies that deliver to the door (and I sometimes use them) but there’s nothing like walking along those big wide aisles and ogling all that paper, pens, other writing utensils and software – oh, and the furniture, computers and other hardware too! Some of my daughters have this same love as well – it must be in the genes 🙂 KMT
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Pat says
LOL – I LOVE office supply stores!! Could spend hours in them! 🙂
Brenda says
Thank goodness! I’ve found my people. I have loved stationery since I was about 3 or 4 years old. Just the smells and textures of papers. I’m at the point that I also have 101 types of pens. I match up the pen and the paper, ie. a medium paper mate, blue preferably, with a college ruled #20 bond notebook. I know, it’s sick, but if I can’t write smoothly on a page, I work on matching my pen with the paper or vice versa…
bz
kathiemt says
lol Brenda! You have it bad! 🙂
But I can’t say much – says me who has an old wardrobe (3 sliding doors in a row) turned into a stationery cupboard and filled!
James says
I’m an absent-minded stationery junkie. I’ll buy notebooks, write in the first few pages, then forget about them – put them in a drawer or something, and then buy another, and then find the older one months later, and realise what I’ve written makes no sense at all.