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I outgrew dresser drawers a long time ago. Now I have a small "lingerie" chest (an antique chest with drawers about 1/2 the size of regular dresser drawers, and about 6 drawers high), part of a bookshelf and a pen chest. The pen chest holds all my pens, while most of my ink sits on the book shelf, and the rest, along with cartridges, samples, and other paraphernalia reside in the "lingerie" chest. The pen chest was my most recent purchase, and it is a life saver. It is small enough to sit on my writing desk and eliminates having pens laying all over.

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Ink and pens are not stored in my bedroom.

They are in my office area in the loft of our home.

One of the benefits of living in an area with moderate real estate prices, space.

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Not exactly....

I used to have a dresser next to the bed which I had inherited from my grandparents (the hutch is outside the bedroom where there's a small area next to a bump out for another room). I didn't use that dresser for clothes -- I had random other stuff in it, including a bunch of old manuscripts from my mom that were used as scratch paper, and some art supplies. That got moved into the hallway outside the bathroom and the door to that other bedroom (technically the master bedroom, but it's my sewing room because it has the best light), and we have the laser printer and the scanner on it -- flat surface, and right across the hall from the spare bedroom/my husband's office.

In its place in OUR bedroom is an Arts and Crafts style writing desk, flanked by a couple of fold-down bookcase units from Pier 1. The bookcases have the boxes of inks (nice ones from Ikea, which I can't get anymore :() and the top shelf of the one next to my bed also has my medications and alarm clock, and the canister with inked up pens. The current morning pages journal volume lives 1 shelf down, on top of one of the IKEA boxes. Eventually, once we figure out how to put casters on it without damaging stuff, there will be a small 3 drawer cabinet (also from IKEA) that will store some things (the pen cases) and go under the desk. Once I get the desktop cleared off better, (it has a fold up top where tchotchkes go, like my stuffed Grumpy cat and things like my small Pelikan pen stands, as well as some jewelry boxes and random other little boxes), I may put the spool box I bought at last summer at an antiques mall in Virginia, near Monticello, and turn it into actual pen storage. The idea behind the IKEA drawers is to get random stuff off the OTHER Ikea bookcase, like the pen cases. Another idea for the IKEA drawers is to put the sample vial trays in the drawers -- which will free up one of the IKEA BOXES for more ink bottles....

There's a method to my madness. Really. Plus, I'm sure my husband would really like for me to get the inks samples (which are no longer in any sort of function order) and the ink bottles -- including the bag with the 8 bottles I bought at OPS a week ago) OUT of the living room.... Now if I could just get HIM to go through the random mail he gets and just stacks up in the living room (then wonders why we're getting dinged on some bill or other... :headsmack:).

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I used to have pens and ink everywhere. In my desk, in a storage closet, in a dresser drawer, in my night table, in my watch box, in a pen stand beside my watch box.. just everywhere. Since selling most pretty much all my inks and 2/3 of my pens I now can keep my inks at my desk and most of my pens between my desk and a storage chest in the living room aside from those I carry every day.

 

Tan 4 pen case is my EDC and lives in my brief case. I use those pens everyday at work.

Black 12 pen case tucks in nicely with my notebooks on my shelf. I use those pens a few times a month. Maybe less.

The wooden pen box is on top of a tall shelf in the living room not far from my desk. I pretty much just end up looking at these pens!

 

Not pictured is one bottle of Noodlers Blue I keep in my desk drawer at work. I have a couple of cheap pens that I occasionally ink up to let co-workers drive for the day.

 

Yup, that's The Office keeping me company while I "work". The samples vials are my wife's. She's a light user and doesn't own a bottle of ink. Whenever I go to Wonderpens to pick up a new notebook insert I just grab another vial of pink ink for $1.50. 6 vials have lasted her 1.5 years so far.

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No.

Ink and pens are not stored in my bedroom.

They are in my office area in the loft of our home.

One of the benefits of living in an area with moderate real estate prices, space.

Sounds cushy. When a 2 bedroom apartment costs $3500 a month you get a desk that folds into the wall between a couch and the table :)

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I've basically hijacked most of a dresser for pen boxes. 6 drawers of pen boxes (with 2 watch boxes), 3 for clothes. Really tempted to get rid of some but I'm not sure, especially with some of the fancier boxes. Tbh it's a big reason I prefer smaller boxes on pens.

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I don't have as many bottles of ink as some of the rest of you do, but I've had to make a small map to find what is where in the stack that lives on my mantelpiece.

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Sounds cushy. When a 2 bedroom apartment costs $3500 a month you get a desk that folds into the wall between a couch and the table :)

 

 

But what's the square footage? Price per square foot is key!!

 

My house is small and storage is extremely sparse. I've dedicated one dresser drawer and one shelf on a bookshelf for all of my pens, inks, paper, etc. Most everything is in the dresser drawer, but my cigar box with the pens sits on the bookshelf for easy access (this is also where I put my keys, wallet, flashlight, etc, so I just grab a pen and the other stuff when walking out the door). I've decided if I can't fit it all in that dresser drawer, then it's excessive and I shouldn't be spending the money. I try to keep it tidy and organized too.

 

I've also decided I won't buy more pens than my cigar box can hold, so I'm limited to 15 currently (I have less pens than that at the moment), or if I reconfigure it with purpose built pen trays, I can get 18 in there, I think.

 

Anything more and this "hobby" would be a source of stress instead of enjoyable. My actual hobby is "writing", not "buying stuff", after all...

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But what's the square footage? Price per square foot is key!!

 

My house is small and storage is extremely sparse. I've dedicated one dresser drawer and one shelf on a bookshelf for all of my pens, inks, paper, etc. Most everything is in the dresser drawer, but my cigar box with the pens sits on the bookshelf for easy access (this is also where I put my keys, wallet, flashlight, etc, so I just grab a pen and the other stuff when walking out the door). I've decided if I can't fit it all in that dresser drawer, then it's excessive and I shouldn't be spending the money. I try to keep it tidy and organized too.

 

I've also decided I won't buy more pens than my cigar box can hold, so I'm limited to 15 currently (I have less pens than that at the moment), or if I reconfigure it with purpose built pen trays, I can get 18 in there, I think.

 

Anything more and this "hobby" would be a source of stress instead of enjoyable. My actual hobby is "writing", not "buying stuff", after all...

Oops, 2500. There are in fact many 2 bedrooms that go well past the 3500 mark though. 4 to 5 grand a month if you're looking at renting a house. We're about 800 square feet. I'd like a 3 bedroom but I can't find one in my neighborhood for less than 3600 a month and that's without parking. So you'be got to get a parking permit form the city and then hoof it however many blocks back home after you find parking. Better yet I'd like a house, but the 1000 square foot 2 bedroom across from me just sold for 900 grand. I told my wife that even if I could afford nearly a million dollar mortgage I don't see the value in spending that much on a tiny house.

 

Anyway, that's Toronto housing prices for you. We'll have to leave the city but for now we're walking distance from my daughter's school plus before and after school care. Plus because we're so close to a subway station we can get away with one car which is a cost savings considering Child Care is another 1500 a month!

 

Housing gripes aside.. at least we HAVE a home.

 

That chest I took a picture of will hold 25 pens I think. I have to re-count. Aside from my EDC I've decided to use that as a limiting factor against my collection. And that shouldn't be a problem because the pens I still want all cost an arm and a leg so It'll take years to fill the remaining spaces anyway. 15 is an even better number though because really, if you've got a modern desk job and a family how much time can you really spend writing?

 

I'll probably sell a few more of the pens I pictured. Some of the Sailors will go, and I plan to sell the Pilots and and Platinum 3775 to make room for a higher grade pilot. I'll probably also sell the Diplomat Rembrandt, and Delta "The Journal" and put that money toward a Homo Sapiens.

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I redid my closet a few years back, and I've managed to keep most of the collection in one drawer. The inks, however, live in the bathroom in a small chest of drawers...one wants to be close to a sink for these operations.

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Sounds cushy. When a 2 bedroom apartment costs $3500 a month you get a desk that folds into the wall between a couch and the table :)

 

We've actually considered getting a modern style Murphy bed for my husband's office, since that room started off life as the spare bedroom when we bought the place (he complained that I had the "original" master bedroom, and all he got was a tiny shop in the basement). The other two bedrooms on that floor are really too small -- the back corner room was the "greenhouse" at one point, because of the number of windows (south easterncorner of the house). The middle bedroom on that side was supposed to be the library, but has become a catch all room -- someday I really need to get through the stuff in there to get to the closet and see if the atmospheric clock which had been my dad's retirement gift from IBM can be started back up; it's been in wrapped up in bedspreads in a laundry hamper for the better part of 20 years. I thought my brother was supposed to have gotten the clock; he thought I was. And since he somehow got my dad's car transferred over to his name, to give to my niece (she later wrecked it in a rollover accident after her first semester in college, driving too fast for weather conditions one night). So it was "Okay, you think I'm supposed to get the clock? Cool beans...." I also need to get rid of at least ONE of the sets of the books my mom wrote... there's my set and my brother's set (he doesn't have room, and his housemate is a neat freak) and my parents' set. As well as a bunch of old manuscripts and partial manuscripts,,,, Hey -- isn't HE supposed to be the literary executor? All he's done since 1998 was to wangle a free trip to an Ozcon in LA last year to be on a panel, talking about Mom.... :angry:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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We've actually considered getting a modern style Murphy bed for my husband's office, since that room started off life as the spare bedroom when we bought the place (he complained that I had the "original" master bedroom, and all he got was a tiny shop in the basement). The other two bedrooms on that floor are really too small -- the back corner room was the "greenhouse" at one point, because of the number of windows (south easterncorner of the house). The middle bedroom on that side was supposed to be the library, but has become a catch all room -- someday I really need to get through the stuff in there to get to the closet and see if the atmospheric clock which had been my dad's retirement gift from IBM can be started back up; it's been in wrapped up in bedspreads in a laundry hamper for the better part of 20 years. I thought my brother was supposed to have gotten the clock; he thought I was. And since he somehow got my dad's car transferred over to his name, to give to my niece (she later wrecked it in a rollover accident after her first semester in college, driving too fast for weather conditions one night). So it was "Okay, you think I'm supposed to get the clock? Cool beans...." I also need to get rid of at least ONE of the sets of the books my mom wrote... there's my set and my brother's set (he doesn't have room, and his housemate is a neat freak) and my parents' set. As well as a bunch of old manuscripts and partial manuscripts,,,, Hey -- isn't HE supposed to be the literary executor? All he's done since 1998 was to wangle a free trip to an Ozcon in LA last year to be on a panel, talking about Mom.... :angry:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Sounds like a big place! We have two rooms. One's ours, one's my daughter's. And she's 4 so she likes to sleep in our bed with us. So really her room is just a storage space for most of her toys.

 

As for family heirlooms and what not, we've pretty much got to say no to all of it. I built some catwalks in the attic during the summer to store things up there, but it's not meant for storage so whatever goes up there can't be temperature sensitive. So it's bikes, sports equipment, pen boxes, old text books, luggage. Stuff like that. Every time we visit family my mom will pull something out of a spare room and say "Oh this is so and so's- would you like to have it?" And we're always like "sure, if you're going to buy us the house to go with all this stuff." So far no takers.

 

Anyway, my fold up desk does the trick. Only issue is that's the only spot in our apartment for a Christmas tree so it's blocked off for one month out of the year. I can still crack it open and grab things out of it when I need them but I can't unfold it and work at it.

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I have a glass doored bookcase in my den/library....it's too bad the beer mugs are in the way of my inks. (Once the Americans closed down 97% of their bases in Germany the beer mug market dried up..(to pretty for now's flea market prices) ....with pewter tops of course....don't want flies in my beer. :P)

 

 

My wife bought me a beautiful dark cherry pen box, displayed in the living room. one at a time, with 10 or so inkwells or inkwell sets the wife is complaining about that.

 

Don't have any room in my library, the books keep getting in the way.

Philosophy....yes, I could get rid of that shelf....only need the Stoic Marcus Aurelius,...on second thought never did change my self, never am....So I'm not a Stoic.

I'm a cynic. .......................beware of a sober cynic.......... B)....They might do something other than grumble.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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