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Have You Ever Considered Stopping From Buying More Pens?

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By rochester21
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  1. 1. Have you ever considered stopping from buying more pens?

    • Yes, at some point, but i got over it.
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    • Sometimes i think about stopping/
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    • Wish i could stop, but i can`t.
      22
    • No, not really- i always enjoy buying pens
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pajaro Museum Piece

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I think I enjoyed writing with a fountain pen more back in 1970 when I only had one good pen, just out of college.

 

Ah, today I'll write with this one with the broad stub . . . or this one with the medium italic . . .oh, no, this one with the oblique stub . . .no, the one with the cursive italic . . .nah, the one with the fine flex . . .the O3B would be a gas . . . maybe just the extra fine . . .

 

I don't write much with pens anymore, I just mess around with them.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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The last thing I need is more pens, but it seems like the first thing I want...

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice; damn

There goes that fox again.

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At this point, I absolutely need to, since I obviously have a fountain pen problem. This week I bought an m800 italic from the classifieds and an 80s m400 tortoise, neither of which I can afford. :embarrassed_smile:

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