Tidying up: Inks, refills and supplies
As I mentioned last time, I’ve been doing some Marie Kondo-style tidying. In the last few days I finally reached the ‘stationery’ category in my tidying spree.
The main issue: my inks, refills and supplies were distributed between an random assortment of cardboard boxes and sandwich bags. What’s worse, these boxes and bags were in so many places in my room, they were dealing psychic damage every time I opened a drawer or a cupboard! They needed a tidying up ASAP!
In the end it was surprisingly easy to consolidate them all into these three boxes.
Well, maybe four boxes since one has another box inside it. And let’s not talk about all the tiny boxes inside that fourth box.
I was lucky to have these clear plastic trays ready–they were drawers for a desk organiser where I really only needed the outside frame. They are pretty and let you easily see what you’ve got. The cardboard box on the right is from the drawer set I mentioned in my tidying notebooks post.
…Of course, this isn’t all the stuff I had. My next post will be about all the fountain pen-related items I am letting go.
A closer look
As I complained on Mastodon, there seems to be no good way to display ink bottles. Especially knowing I’ll view them in a drawer from above, it’s like playing Tetris with all the wrong pieces.
Please don’t ask me to justify why I haven’t taken those three bottles out of their boxes…
This will do for now. Bonus: I’m motivated to use up my samples because they look like clutter compared to the big pretty bottles.
I had forgotten about the nibs in that ring box and it was a big win for me when I realised I had a Lamy EF which was just right for using in my work bullet journal.
By the way, pencil leads were the #1 thing I kept finding in random places while tidying. I am looking forward to using more of them now I know I have them.
Bonus: pen sleeves
