Are You A Hoarder?

[Sailor Kenshin]

Another FPN thread gave me a whole new category to ah, COLLECT. Yeah, that's it! collect!

 

The poster was stuck in the house with ----turn away if you are sensitive---

 

NO PAPER. None.

 

So Inspired by this what-if scenario I began saving..... Junk mail.

 

Cutting up envelopes and writing on the insides. And stuff. I mean, why use up a Rhodia for some scribbled shopping list? Right?

 

I know you're out there. I can hear you dialing 'Hoarders.'

[jbb]

I love paper... particularly old paper... with watermarks. Some days I have paper cravings. Reading posts about paper makes we want more paper. :ph34r:

Edited February 7, 2013 by jbb

[lapis]

I am by no means a paper hoarder. I take what I got. I like e.g. Folia Bringmann, and I don't like CF.

What I do hoard, however, is a lot of inks and blotters...

[Bookman]

I'm fairly convinced that my issues—yes, let's use that word—my issues are (1) I have trouble discarding pricey notebooks and paper I've bought, tested, and then determined to be junk, an issue that I'm also fairly convinced wouldn't be an issue if every store where I bought paper had sample sheets for every paper product; and (2) I'm a hoarder.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Bookman

[PaperDarts]

More confessions! The reference to Strathmore and onionskin made me remember the 6 pads of tracing, parchment and vellum paper from the art store that I crammed into a bookcase because I couldn't fit them anywhere else. That was during my quest for paper resembling airmail....

[mhguda]

Finally. I feel right at home here. I used to dream, as a child, of all the paper I was going to have when I grew up and had a job. What remains is the paper... in all forms. Notebooks, pads, loose paper, notepads and notebooks made from scrap paper, I could go on. and on. Journals opened and unopened beckon everywhere. I have one plus: only one location to store them. Doubledeep by now. Gotta stop...

[WaskiSquirrel]

I like to have enough that I won't unexpectedly run out, and I like to have some variety, but I'm actually pretty good about buying stationary.

 

I still haven't settled on many favorites except Maruman B4/B5 folded notebook paper.

[Gloucesterman]

But it was on sale - yes all of it!

That's why I bought and I will definitely use it in the near future because i am going to sit down and write all my friends personal letters (both of them :rolleyes:

 

No seriously I will definitely do it soon!

[Letterman]

Letterman: Hi, my name is Letterman and I am a recovering hoarder. Soooo, let's see, mmmm, yea this is going to be hard...

 

Groupee: Go on Letterman, you can do it. Tell us about your stationery hoarding.

 

Letterman: Well, ummm, I'm on a first name basis with the staffs of three local stationery stores...No, I can't do this.

 

Group Leader: Go on Letterman you're doing great!

 

Letterman: [Runs out of the room sobbing]

[beachwalker]

More confessions! The reference to Strathmore and onionskin made me remember the 6 pads of tracing, parchment and vellum paper from the art store that I crammed into a bookcase because I couldn't fit them anywhere else. That was during my quest for paper resembling airmail....

Oh, my...

I had almost rationalized having far more notebooks than is , ah, 'normal' because, if I wasn't supposed to have them, they wouldn't be on sale, right? Like composition books at the start of each semester, 2 for a buck, and all those piles of Picadilly notebooks at Barnes and Noble for mere fractions of their true cost. But art supplies as well? All of my sketch pads and multimedia pads and, and... Oh, please stop this. They are so, so necessary. And they are all neat and orderly and not taking up any room needed by the cats or wife. Hoarder? Me, a hoarder? My wife has a whole room full of material and they call her a quilter. Can't you just call my a writer, or sketcher, and let me go? I have only 5 fountain pens (ok, 8 if you count the prize Parker's from the 1920s that Richard Binder restored), and only 6 bottles of ink (please don't make me count the calligraphy ink). It's all under control, right? Why, tomorrow I'll need to use a new notebook or two...oh, my, I'd better stock up...

[AlecG]

When are you a hoarder, is there a clear line?

 

I'm not sure I'm one.

I have 10+ Smythson notebooks, once bought at a discount, they are worth GBP 110 each.

I have only 1 custom made springback notebooks left, made with Crane's Thesis. The paper is €75 and then there is the hand bound journal by a master bookbinder. And springbacks are time consuming.

I have at least 7 Allen's journals

And I rediscovered a stash of "atalanta" journals. 50+. They are at least € 21 each.

Yet I'm looking into having my own 100% cotton paper made to have new springback notebooks made.

 

Hmm, when you put it like that, I don't need a clear line. I think I'm well over any line and deep into hoarder territory... :embarrassed_smile: :embarrassed_smile:

[GRJP]

When are you a hoarder, is there a clear line?

 

I'm not sure I'm one.

I have 10+ Smythson notebooks, once bought at a discount, they are worth GBP 110 each.

I have only 1 custom made springback notebooks left, made with Crane's Thesis. The paper is €75 and then there is the hand bound journal by a master bookbinder. And springbacks are time consuming.

I have at least 7 Allen's journals

And I rediscovered a stash of "atalanta" journals. 50+. They are at least € 21 each.

Yet I'm looking into having my own 100% cotton paper made to have new springback notebooks made.

 

Hmm, when you put it like that, I don't need a clear line. I think I'm well over any line and deep into hoarder territory... :embarrassed_smile: :embarrassed_smile:

 

I would dare say that's why the Fifth ammendment exists! :roflmho:

[pandabirdy1]

Ahh - onionskin.... I remember trying to convince my then-partner of the absolute necessity of filling our little car with as much onionskin paper I could afford while in spain. Consequently I remember a lot of bread and cheese meals too...

 

 

I do now try to minimize my 'collection' - at least what's visible in the house.... Then there is the shed with art materials, papers, drawing inks....

 

There are worse addictions err.. hobbies...

[AlecG]

I would dare say that's why the Fifth ammendment exists! :roflmho:

 

I'm sorry, but I didn't get that one, I imagine it's a joke, but even wikipedia didn't help. Please do explain this for a simple European feller.

[SmoovD]

I would dare say that's why the Fifth ammendment exists! :roflmho:

 

I'm sorry, but I didn't get that one, I imagine it's a joke, but even wikipedia didn't help. Please do explain this for a simple European feller.

 

The reference is to the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects witnesses against self-incrimination. In criminal trials it is called "pleading the 5th". In cases of paper hoarders, it simply protects the hoarder from a spouse/partner and/or reality.

Edited February 8, 2013 by SmoovD

[Sherwood Forester]

It is an unavoidable truth that if you are male, then you are a hoarder.

 

Biological fact. DNA = Desperately Needs to Accumulate

 

Fortunately my wife knows it.

 

She acknowledges it on a regular basis with a sigh and a rolling of her eyes.

 

"Not another ... (insert appropriate noun, e.g. pen, book, CD, DVD etc.)"

[Gloucesterman]

I would dare say that's why the Fifth ammendment exists! :roflmho:

 

I'm sorry, but I didn't get that one, I imagine it's a joke, but even wikipedia didn't help. Please do explain this for a simple European feller.

 

The reference is to the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects witnesses against self-incrimination. In criminal trials it is called "pleading the 5th". In cases of paper hoarders, it simply protects the hoarder from a spouse/partner and/or reality.

 

Oh, I thought "pleading the fifth" had to do with a "fifth" of hard liquor! :roflmho: My thought was that if I had drunk a fifth of some hard liquor, I would not be responsible for my actions and could justify the increased expenditure of $$$$$$$$$$$ for paper.

 

Guess I will have to find some other excuse. Maybe my mind is going to pot? Right Mary Jane?

[PocketNotebook]

I'm not a paper hoarder, but I LOVE notebooks!!!!!

Especially small pocket ones. I mean...the possibilities...!

 

Ahem. So. Yes, I hoard notebooks.

However, I've just discovered the fountain pen, and now I'm hooked on that as well.

 

Help!

[Letterman]

Letterman: Mom, Dad? What are you doing here with all my friends?

 

Dad: I think you know why we are here Letterman.

 

Mom: This is an intervention Letterman.

 

Letterman: How did you get past the G. Lalo avalanche and Cranes & Co. cave in booby traps I set?

 

Mom: Well, some of us didn't make it.

 

Dad: Come on son we've all hoarded paper, we know how to get through the booby traps.

 

Letterman: I'm OK, I don't have a problem hoarding stationery, honest.

 

Mom: Letterman, if you don't stop hoarding, we are going to write you out of our will.

 

Letterman: But Mom!

 

Dad: No "buts" boy, enough is enough. We are not going to stand by and watch you squander a fortune on premium quality stationery!

 

Letterman: No, no! I can't go back to using Big Chief tablets. I just can't!

[PaperDarts]

When are you a hoarder, is there a clear line?

 

I'm not sure I'm one.

I have 10+ Smythson notebooks, once bought at a discount, they are worth GBP 110 each.

I have only 1 custom made springback notebooks left, made with Crane's Thesis. The paper is €75 and then there is the hand bound journal by a master bookbinder. And springbacks are time consuming.

I have at least 7 Allen's journals

And I rediscovered a stash of "atalanta" journals. 50+. They are at least € 21 each.

Yet I'm looking into having my own 100% cotton paper made to have new springback notebooks made.

 

Hmm, when you put it like that, I don't need a clear line. I think I'm well over any line and deep into hoarder territory... :embarrassed_smile: :embarrassed_smile:

 

 

Whoa, having your own paper made? You've taken this to a whole new level!