Quartz Article On Fountain Pens - "retail Sales Growing"

[markh]

Here are a few snippets from the article:

 

 

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$1.046 billion: Global fountain pen retail sales in 2016, according to Euromonitor, up 2.1% from the year prior

 

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141: Disposable ballpoint pens that one consumer behavior and green-marketing instructor at Iona College found after a thorough search of her house, office, car, and bag—with no memory of buying any of them.

 

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Americans throw out 1.6 billion pens a year

 

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I particularly like the 2nd one - I remember buying most of the fountain pens I have....

 

Entire article here:

 

<https://qz.com/email/quartz-obsession/1300720/>

 

 

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[Morphling27]

We have a couple G2 pens of sorts in the house, and some V5 (or maybe 7?) sitting around. Otherwise, my wife actually prefers to do most of her writing work at home in pencil and just refills them as needed. We've had the same ones since moving in together (7 years ago??).

 

Otherwise its just fountain pens that have been refilled time and time again. The only carts I use are ones that have come with pens. I would honestly say I'm a bottled ink only man.

 

And the story a couple days ago about the government agencies spending $1200 for a fountain pen. I initially thought not bad - was it a nice LE or maybe some fancy hand painted urushi pen? They then said it was 10 pens. I scoffed that anyone found that expensive. Until I remembered folks get free bic sticks at every street corner.