Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Office Supply Fetish




Web Worker Daily asked recently, "Do You Have an Office Supply Fetish?". Then today, I realized that Lifehacker has a tag for Office Supplies Fetish.


So I guess I'm not the only one. My interests actually spill over into art and archival supplies too. Big box office supply stores don't tend to carry very much selection of finer writing utensils and papers. I've never found anything to match the long-defunct local office supply store I grew up with.

A lot of people seem to favor gel and ball point pens, but I find them too scratchy and inconsistent. I much prefer very fine rolling balls (Uni-Ball micro) or markers (Sharpies and Flairs for everyday colors). My favorites for precision are the Pigma Micron 005 or the Zig Millenium 005, with .20mm line widths. These put Ultra Fine Point Sharpies to shame.

I keep a variety of pads of paper handy (graph paper, narrow-ruled lined paper, etc.) and different sizes of note papers and cards (3" x 5" preferred). I went as far as to design my own 10-squares-to-the-inch graph paper with a custom header block.

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Posted by Logical Extremes | LogEx at 11:20 PM
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3 comments:

  1. I can never get enough sharpies. fat ones, skinny ones, micro ones, double-ended ones, retractible ones, those little teeny ones you can put on your keychain.
    Every color, even gold and silver, and don't forget the super-indelible kind that stink up the whole room!

    yeah, it's an addiction.

    Lucille Ball is rumored to have hoarded writing implements, too... so I guess we're in good company!

    thanks for sharing your collection.
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