The Trouble With Pocket Sized Notebooks........

[nigelg]

...... is that they can get overlooked in the wash. I didn't notice. Even SWMBO didn't notice. And my new Jotter was clipped in it. Which leaked. Oops.

 

[inkstainedruth]

I had a watch go through the laundry once. My mother found cogs and such in the machine for a couple of weeks, IIRC....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ThomasB]

Wow! It does look like it formed a protective cocoon around the pen--so that's a plus.

[Astronymus]

Get a bloody bag.

[SoulSamurai]

Get a bloody bag.

Or get a clean one. After all, people might stare if your bag is bloody.

[Runnin_Ute]

I had a burgundy Parker 45 go through the wash once. Still wrote wonderfully, but the barrel broke. Had trouble finding a replacement barrel, and so it sat. I found a forest green barrel and section in January. Just like getting a new pen.

[flyingfox]

I am always amazed at how well bills handle getting washed!! Many of my one dollar bills, and a couple of twenty dollar bills went through the washer, usually in my pants pocket, and they all stayed “spendable”!

 

Talk about money laundering, literally...

[Astronymus]

Bills are made of a paper of cotton and linen fibers. It's not normal paper. Some countries even use synthetic fibers or plastic foil.

[shamwari]

We're changing to polymer (plastic) notes in Scotland and England - washing apparently not a problem but ironing not so good!

 

So far I've managed to keep my pens out of the washing.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

...... is that they can get overlooked in the wash. I didn't notice. Even SWMBO didn't notice. And my new Jotter was clipped in it. Which leaked. Oops.

 

 

I may have washed a pocket notebook in my time, but I don't recall getting quite such impressive results. What did it look like before you cleaned it?

[Recoil Rob]

Two years and hasn't gone through the wash yet, the tough leather makes it hard to miss. Spends its life in the back pocket of my Carhartt bibs.

 

Kaweco clone lives in the front pocket.

 

Made it myself from vegetable tanned cowhide I got on eBay.

 

 

 

[sidthecat]

I had a Carter’s ringtop go through the wash once. It was fine.

Thank goodness I wash stuff in cold water.

[crashcraft]

Just be thankful the Jotter didnt make it into the dryer. I ruined about 8 dress shirts one time when the refill inside the pen blew up and the heat of the dryer baked the ink into the fabric. Yes, about 5 of those were white shirts. 😫

[nigelg]

The notebook is/was a Clairefontaine Duo. Wonderful little book that lived in pockets, bags, pen cases and took FP inks, pencil and ballpoints without complaint. Thoroughly recommended. Fortunately I have a couple more so I'm not ... er... out of pocket. Fortunately, as our tumble drier is "hors de combat" at the moment, the trousers were hung out to dry on the washing line. We've had some good drying days at this time of the year even in our neck of the woods.

I wonder which solvent is safe enough to clean out the leaked ballpoint ink from the jotter? (I might ask that in the repair forum too).