Hey there, and welcome to the Planner Pals Podcast, the
podcast hosted by two true planner pals.
My name is Mark or mark your pages.
And I am Jess or Jessie Curran and in today's episode we're
doing something that I mean, I'd say it was long-awaited, but
we're really only on like our 9th episode.
So how long was it? But today we're playing Never
Have I Ever, Stationary Edition. That's right.
If you've never played Never have I ever before, usually this
is like a game you play with your friends while you're
hanging out. Maybe some beverages are
involved, you know, and you're just really kind of throwing
things out there. And the whole idea here is to
kind of expose people without having to really expose
yourself. So the way we're going to play
this game today, let's go ahead and just put a safety warning
out here. You can choose to have a
beverage with you if you want to.
I chose a nice coffee. Jess.
What he Oh, of course you're going with the Coke.
There's no question about it. But if you have anything else
you want to go with, go for it. You know, got a beer, you got a
little bevy, go for it. But again, we are not
responsible for anything that happens after this episode.
If you don't want to have a drink with you, that's totally
cool. You can also just notch it down
inside of your notebook. I'm also going to be keeping
score as well. I just got a fancy new fountain
pen, Jess, So you know that I have to like use it as much as
possible. So very excited about that.
So we're going to go ahead through these.
And the way that you play this game is after we read one of
these. If you have never done those
things before, you don't do anything.
But if you have done that thing, that's when you're going to take
a drink or you're going to notch down your point.
And at the end, we're going to tally up how many points that we
have and see who is the most guilty of all of these things
among us. Are you ready to go, Jess?
Oh my gosh, I'm worried because I haven't really looked through
what people submitted, which first of all, thank you to
everybody who submitted a never have I ever prompt.
We got quite a few of them, so quite a few to get through
today. It probably won't make it for
the longest episode we've ever done because Go Wild was a ride,
but it will still probably take us a hot minute to get through
all of them. But we're very excited to get
into it. First one we've got.
Never have I ever bought stationary second hand.
I never have. Yeah, no, I don't think I have.
I don't know. I just like things to be new.
I'm the same exactly. I saw this one and I was like
what does that count? Does that count as like buying
someone else's new notebook? Or is this like a used product?
Like someone has used these pens or used these markers?
Like that's how I thought about second hand.
I think The thing is that I've sold stationary like secondhand.
So sticker books that I maybe used like one sticker out of or
just didn't really get around to touching or notepads that I've
maybe, I don't know, not touched or only used a couple leaves out
of. I have a tendency not to sell on
my stationary if it's been kind of like, well loved or at least
even like 20% loved, because then I just feel like, no, I'm
just gonna give this away. Yeah, I'm the same.
Donated maybe, but purchased no. All right, our next Never have I
ever, never have I ever sorted my notebooks in rainbow order.
This is totally someone from your community, Jess.
Who is attacking me? Oh my God yes of course I have
done this. Got the guys in the back looking
cute. Also got like mini rainbows in
my closet but I don't have enough notebooks to make them
out to be like a full rainbow of notebooks yet.
What about you? No, because I'm color deficient
and I couldn't do it if I wanted to.
I'd love to see you try. Yeah, it would be like, Mark, do
you know those yellows and those greens?
They're not the same. I'd be like, they look the same
to me. That's all that matters.
The hardest part is getting the gradients right.
So when you kind of transitioned from one color to the next, so
like blue and green in the middle with the teals and stuff,
that's tricky. And then also like getting a
good colour difference between orange and yellow sometimes is
hard because you end up with a lot of peachy tones, but then
they don't really look like they belong there.
So it's like, do I put you in pink?
It takes more time than it's probably worth, but I love it
so. But I don't know that I could do
any of those things that you just mentioned because I'd be
like, Nope, this is just it. So I just put the nicest,
coolest ones out on the shelf. That's how I decide to organize
mine. It's a valid system.
Yeah, okay. Never have I ever abandoned a
notebook because the size of the paper was driving me nuts.
Golf, I've definitely let me go and notch myself down here too
to keep track of everything. So I actually do this a lot
because I like to experiment a lot.
And I will say, hey, this is going to be the notebook that
I'm using now and then I'll get into it and just like it's
really not working for me and I stopped using it.
I actually just talked about this on a recent YouTube episode
I did because I just set up my my mid year kind of new desk
bullet journal here. And I tried a lot of other
notebooks before I got to like to say Mark, set up a bullet
journal like, you know, that's what you want to do.
Let's be honest. And so most of the notebooks I
used only have a handful of pages, or the paper wasn't
right, or I just wasn't quite sure about it and just no.
So yeah, I've done that plenty. I have a lot of half used
notebooks. Maybe I should sell them?
You could, I mean, it depends as to how much you want to sell
them for and like how much they're used, but you could try.
I don't think I've ever abandoned a notebook because of
the size. I think maybe I've like jumped
out early, but I've already had like 3 months in the notebook.
So I don't really call it abandoning.
It's more like I could probably fit another month in here, but I
want to try something new so I kind of move on to another one.
Given how much I filled the notebook, I wouldn't really call
it abandoned per Southeast. Yeah, I've done that too.
Like right there at the end. You're like, can I make it
another several weeks inside of here?
And I feel like now we have a pretty good idea how much we
write inside of our notebooks to hat to be able to say like, can
I make it 10 pages? And I'll do it.
I'm not gonna lie. I've been like right there at
the end of the year where I'm like, I really don't want to
start a new notebook right now. And I'll be like, OK, Mark week
one, week two, I'm like no more collection pages, no more extra
doodles. Get a scrap piece of paper if
you want a separate note. I can get real like crazy about
it but I definitely would not call like leaving like 10 pages
at the end of a notebook abandoning it.
It's just being smart. Yeah, I want my current notebook
at the moment because I really want to transition over at the
mid year point. I actually set up weeklies for
the first time in quite a while because I'm very much more of a
dailies person now, interestingly, But you know, set
those up to try and save on space a little bit.
Had three extra spreads at the end of the journal, like who I
made it. We're OK.
We have a little bit of buffer room if I need to take down some
notes, but otherwise it's going to be a nice smooth transition
into the second-half of the year.
Chef's kiss. I love what it works out that
way. All right, let's go into our
next one. Let me get my my cup ready for
this. Never have I ever held a grudge
against a colleague or friend for not returning a borrowed
pen. So I'm saying grudge.
They just don't get pens anymore.
So is that considered a grudge? I.
Don't know. I think that's just smart
planning. You know, you've been booked
before, you're not going to take on that risk again.
I don't think I've necessarily gotten annoyed at somebody, but
that's only because I don't lend my pens to people, at least not
the ones I like. Oh, it's definitely something
you learn, right? You're just like, no, I don't
trust you with this pen or I've lent it to you before and you
didn't give it back. Like you only get the crappy
ones. And I think all stationary
planner people have a very small stash.
Limited quality of crappy pens to lend out if you need to.
Yeah, I have all of my crappy pens sitting downstairs so that
when people come over for like board game nights or whatever
and they have games where you have to be able to write things
down like categories and whatever, I'm like here, here's
the guest pens selection. Yet peruse and chews as you
will, but like my baby enjoys. No, no, no, no, no.
You don't touch those. You do not touch those.
Never have I ever cut a page too close to the threading of the
notebook. Yes, definitely, but not not to
the extent where the notebook itself was harmed.
More so, just like maybe the page on the other side started
to do a little cheeky escape kind of maneuver.
So like the it's like what's inside the margin holding the
paper together. Like you'll see, This is why I
don't cut my pages because that that scares the crowd crap out
of me. And I would do that.
My whole notebook would just like fall to pieces.
Yeah, certainly it's a dangerous sport, but if you do it
carefully then it's okay. I mean, one of the tools that I
kind of use now is rather than cutting all the way to the
binding is you leave like a little kind of tab or tag of
paper still left kind of in the journal and you just double
sided tape that to the next page.
So it's still secure. It doesn't like really make too
much of an eyesore or anything like that.
And it means your paper is all still very much secured in the
notebook. Yes, again, This is why it
isn't. I don't cut my notebook because
that sounds like I'm not. I'm not.
I'm not playing those games. Danger Zone.
All right, our next one. Never have I ever set up a whole
month in my bullet journal and used exactly none of it.
Not, not quite none, but surefire.
It was close. I had an entire setup that I did
for June and I wrote July the entire way through it and it
irked the ever loving crap out of me.
It was also a month where I was doing a theme that was very not
cohesive and I just couldn't get behind it.
I like it when things are matchy matchy.
I like it when my journal looks nice.
And it was just giving me the ick the entire way through of
trying to use it. So after like the first week and
a half, possibly even only a week, I was like, yeah, no,
we're just going to just going to scoot that to the side and go
and write things on a sticky note.
Yeah, I don't plan that far in advance.
I just do my weeklies really and then everything else kind of
pops into my future log and I bring it forward.
I've thought about potentially doing a month in advance,
especially in my new like desk bullet journal because works a
little bit different than my work bullet journal is.
I thought, well, this could be great to kind of get those
things I need to do in advance, but I just don't know if I would
stick with it because I would probably do something similar.
I'd be like, I'm not feeling this this week.
That's why I like planning like spur of the moment, right?
I can be like, I got this brand new stamp set and this new pen.
I'm going to use them together, but am I feeling that next week?
I don't know. Yeah, it's very kind of like a
balancing act when you're trying to plan that far in advance,
because if you don't take the time to really consider what you
will probably need in the moment, you can end up with
layouts that really don't fit the bill.
Like in making my weeklies for this month because you know,
trying out weeklies again a little bit strange for.
Me so proud of you. Thank.
You I try, but I very much had to plan out like, which weeks am
I going to need a lot of space to write because I'll have a lot
going on, Which weeks am I not going to be around and thus
don't need so much space. So taking the time to consider
it can kind of safeguard yourself, but sometimes it just
doesn't work out that way. Never have I ever bought
stationary when I was on a no stationary buying freeze.
Taking a long, deep sip, I'm going to get on whole extra iced
coffee. I think I've told myself before
that I wasn't on no buy freeze. I don't know if I actually ever
like done it though, because I think the idea is with this
right, is that we're like, OK, time to simmer down now.
Maybe a big purchase month last month, like whoa.
But the problem with any stationery addict is there is
always going to be a new notebook, a new sticker or stamp
collection, a new release from something that we love.
And the worst thing, at least for me, is to think that I'll
never be able to get that again. So I think with like
subscription box, I think about Archer and Olive all the time,
right? That new subscription box is
about to come out and someone was like, Mark, are you gonna
get it? Like, have you seen the peaks?
Have you heard anything? And I haven't really.
I've heard a handful of things from being on the ambassador
team. But I still say like I will
never not get it because just the potential opportunity to
never get an item again from something that I totally could
get. I'm just not risking it.
No that's fair, if it was easier to get to the ass end of the
world where I live then maybe, but I only take the ones that
they are willing to send me for free.
Thank you so much, very blessed. But I don't really have a
stationary buying problem now. I know that that sounds like
someone who is de Lulu and they don't know they have.
The issue as she has an entire rainbow color inside of behind
her and in her closets. So The thing is, is that though,
I don't often feel compelled to buy stationary unless somebody
reaches out to me and says like, hey, we wanna give you a free
box of crap, the nicest way puzzle, we wanna give you
$100.00 gift voucher that you can spend at our store and all
of that kind of stuff. So I pretty much reserve all of
my stationary buying for those moments because I know that
they're probably gonna crop up, which I'm very lucky to have,
and then I just get my stationary in those instances.
I also find that my rebel brain kicks in anytime I try to tell
myself not to do something. So I just don't put myself on a
no buy for stationary because that's just a surefire recipe
for making sure I spend way too much on stationary.
Yeah, that's probably what I would do too.
I would end up buying extra because I waited an entire month
to buy it instead, you know, Or I would just forget about it,
you know? Who knows?
Yeah, just open the floodgates, all of the purchases.
Yeah, that's exactly what what would happen.
I'd keep a note or keep checking on it.
Be like, is it still available? We're one day away and I wait
till like midnight and then I order it.
All right, our next 10, gosh, get your stuff out.
Just get ready to take a big old sip because I'll be doing the
same. Never have I ever set up a
tracker and not used it. Oh.
My God, constantly, so often, especially like certain types of
trackers are the weak points, I swear.
So things like time logs after a month where I was really good
with my time log, that's always a pain point because I'm like,
oh, I did really well with this. I'll set it up again.
And then crickets. Nothing on the time log.
Obviously I died. Also, anytime I set up a weight
tracker, I use it for maybe like the first couple weeks being
like, yeah, and then you get to that one week where your weight
goes up instead of down. You're like, cool, I'm out by.
Burn this notebook. We're done with this one.
I try Stop doing trackers is that for a long time I felt like
I had to. If we talked about that in an
earlier episode, it was just one of those things where you see
everyone else doing it. It makes really cool looking
spreads. But what you don't use them and
you come back to it, you're just like, wow, this is a big old
failure for me. I like to use them when I need
them. That's kind of how I think about
it. Like if something's really on my
mind or I'm trying to do something, I'd rather just add
it to my weekly than add it to my monthly because that way,
like if I fail in that week, I'm just like, yeah, did it quite
work out something different next week?
But if it's in the month and I've set it all up for 30 days,
you just kind of looking at it and you're just like, damn it.
Nah, still not going to do it. You're looking at it and it's
looking at you and you're looking at it.
I find that the weekly trackers work a lot better honestly,
because it just helps you to have like a smaller snippet of
time to focus on in a way. So that was one of the changes
that I made this year as transitioning from month long
trackers to just weekly ones because it's a little bit like
right in your face. You know, you're working on your
weekly the majority of the time and stuff, writing down tasks,
events, notes, whatever else. And your track is just there,
like hi, I exist, please pay attention to me as opposed to
being on a separate page all by itself.
Like will she ever turn back? One day, my Prince will come.
You're a spinster for the rest of your life, So what happens
when you watch Bridgeton too much?
I've been using the word spinster a lot just because I'm
watching Bridgeton. I've been using Mama in my head,
which is like my mom doesn't even like live here or in the
country with me, but I just like Mama.
I'm taking a walk around the ton kind of a thing.
All right, what's the next one? So never have I ever had to give
away notebooks to friends or family because I had too many.
I've never had to. I just do because, you know,
people come over and like they're talking about, oh, I
wanna start a notebook for something.
Or I really love what you're doing with journals.
I'm like, well, hey, would you like to come and shop my stash
kind of a thing? Not that one.
Go get one from the cupboard. You're not allowed the rainbow.
You'll break it up. Not the good ones.
I don't have a replacement for that colour of blue.
Literally no. Vogel came in, started the year
or like end of last year. It's like, OK, we're gonna pick
you a notebook. Which one do you want?
Kind of thing like picked out a couple options for him.
He's like, oh, what's that one? I'm like, no, that's my dragon
from Archer and all of you can't have it.
It's mine. Never using that.
One the dragon I'm like, no, he is a shelf trophy.
You can't touch him. I have so many of those.
I was just looking through him and I was trying to pick the one
I was using for my desk journal and all of the ones I've been
saving and it's all Halloween ones.
I love the way the Halloween ones look, but I was like, oh,
do I want the potions or did I want the wand?
Or I was like maybe the spell book.
And I ended up going with the locking key one that was inside
of the separate Halloween box because I had two of those
because my daughter wanted the glass pen and I wanted the glass
pen. So I just ended up getting two
boxes. Sorry to anyone who couldn't get
a box because I bought 2. But yeah, it was one of those
things where I was like, I don't know which one to pick because
they're all just like beautiful display items.
I have only a couple that I have duplicates off.
That's usually because I bought like a mystery kit box type
deal. So those ones kind of showed up
or I bought them for giveaways and then never did the giveaway
or the giveaway winner never contacted me.
The number of times that I write a giveaway and the giveaway
winner doesn't get in touch. Ah.
Who are you? Anytime you're offered anything
free from somebody, you say yes, unless it's drugs.
Yes, please. Yeah, yes, please.
You did not endorse this message.
Yeah, this is that safety warning.
Don't drink too much alcohol during this thing and don't do
drugs. Oh my gosh, I was literally
thinking about that before with the like, buying stationery.
It's like that part of Love Actually, where Bill Nye's
characters like, you know, kids don't do drugs, like become a
celebrity and they give them to you for free.
I'm like, oh God, it's me. You're absolutely kind of right
there. Yeah, I was today.
I went and got one of my fountain pens, got the nib
ground, which is or grinded. I don't know what the right bird
phrase is for it. And I was there talking to
people I was talking to, I was talking to the guy who was doing
it and he was like, so how'd you get enough fountain pens?
And I'm like, well, I mean, I bought a few myself and then I
got a whole bunch sent to me. And he was like, oh, okay.
And then we started talking, but it felt very weird to even like
try to mention to him that I do influencer type stuff because
that's a weird conversation to have to be like, well, I'm here.
I don't expecting I'm paying for this stuff, don't get me wrong
here, but I kind of do this stuff on the side.
So I have a lot. No, I don't like having the
influencer talk with people who I don't really know or even
people I do know. Actually.
It's just like I don't, I think I just don't like the term.
I don't see myself in that way. And when I kind of think about
that term, I think about like the big, big names type of a
deal. I'm like, no, I'm not the Kim K,
I'm just me. Like I'm still a goober.
Oh, say, I think it has that negative connotation to it
because of those type of people, right, that are like overdoing
it. But when you really do sit back
and you and you say it, you're like, well, you are influencing,
but maybe like educating is a better way that we could look at
that so we don't feel as bad on ourselves about it.
Yeah, I'm a teacher. I'm not an influencer.
There you go, Just you know, get free notebooks sent to me and I
tell you about them so I can educate them.
Here's my discount code. Yeah, there is a sale coming up
and you should buy something. All right, let's go into our
next Never have I ever, Oh my goodness.
All right, Never have I ever bought all the pens and inks in
a collection just so I had the whole collection.
And I will open this up beyond just pens and inks, like
anything else. So I'm taking a drink on this
one. Yeah, no, I'm certainly a
completionist. I like to have the full set of
pretty much anything like the full set of mild liners, despite
the fact that I don't use mild liners.
I'm just like, but I don't have the five pack that they just
came out with. I need to get it.
I'm like, but do you girl, do you?
I feel the same, but that's a problem with color verse.
They put out seasons of ink so it'll be like season one, season
2. And again, I was at the pen shop
today and they sold. Hold on, let me grab them
because I think you would appreciate them now that you are
a fountain pen aficionado. They're little itty bitty tiny
ink bottles. So they are 5 milliliter ink
bottles, right? And so these are all from color
brace. They had a whole stand up and I
was like okay, and they were like all right, three for was a
three for $20. I think it was.
But I was going through and I was like, okay, this was from
season 2 and these were from season six and I have some of
these and I was just. I was like, I want to collect
all of them. I need them all.
They're so little. It's very much Pokémon got to
catch them all, like kind of a thing.
I think I've gotten a little bit better with it in terms of like
notebook releases. I don't need every single
notebook from every collection. And it's probably just because
they take up a lot of room and I have quite a few.
It's like I I know I have enough notebooks to last me maybe 15
years, so I should be OK. Should be.
We'll see if I keep giving them away to friends and family.
Maybe not, but. You can buy more.
I'm in the same exact spot, I think, with all the new releases
too. And the other thing too is like,
for us, at least in Archer and Olive's case, being on the
ambassador team is definitely helpful because every now and
again we do get a notebook or two, right?
And they're very kind and they'll ask us.
And I think for the most part, you kind of get what you asked
for. So that kind of fulfills me
there, right? Where I'm like, OK, I'd like
this one. This is the one I was going to
buy anyway out of this set. And like to get that as a part
of the team is a nice little benefit.
So right now, but like eventually when I'm not on the
ambassador team anymore, I'm going to be in that same spot, I
think. Where else gonna be like, okay,
do I need all of these collections, maybe just this
one? And I don't know what I'll do
with myself. Yeah, no, I think it's getting
easier to pick and choose. I feel when I first kind of
started getting into the notebooks in particular, it was
very much alike. I need every single one kind of
mindset, but nowadays it's not so bad.
The real pain point for me is when it comes to pen sets and
pen collections, like I just want, I want the full catalog so
that when I go and Swatch it in my book, I don't need to leave
any blank spaces because I don't want to have to like make
another collection because I get more later or anything like
that. It's just nice and easy if I
just have all of them. Thank you.
Yep. I was the same way with Kakamori
is a wonderful like Japanese pen company and they have these
really nice nibs. So I had gotten the stainless
steel nib and then I got the brass nib and then they had this
glass nib, which they only sell like small limited quantities
of. And every now and again they'll
be like putting a few up on for sale.
And the first time I missed it. And then this time I was like on
the website, I don't even know what time it was.
I just remember being like, is it Japanese time or my time that
they're releasing this? But I was on there until it
popped up. I looked up the time for both
just to make sure and I got that sucker.
But I was like, I needed it because I needed to complete
that set. I have all the other ones.
Oh and the calligraphy nib too. I have all of the things now.
I'm like, I am, I am complete. It feels so good.
Just like have them all lined up being like yes my collection is
complete. Jess, I didn't know that you saw
over here to the side where I do display them because I'm so
excited that they exist and I use them all the time too, but
they also are displayed exactly like that.
Alrighty, our next one is Never have I ever accumulated 20 plus
notebooks in my favorite size. Guilty.
I there's like 90 of them guilty.
I'm currently doing that for square notebooks because I have
so many a fives but I really love square notebooks so now
every time a new collection or something comes out I'm like
well the only one I'm need to buy is square so I'm on my way
to 20. I'm not there yet, but
absolutely do that. Yeah, I'm not there for any
other size except for A5 because that is definitely my preferred
size. Square is my second favorite.
And I have kind of started thinking like, OK, OK, well
we've got enough a fives, maybe we'll start collecting the other
ones for a rainbow. Like do we need to?
No, we don't need to, but we're going to so.
Yeah, we need a square rainbow. We need a 5 rainbow B5 rainbow.
I mean, let's just go all the way.
Literally I want to like get my little a six rainbow be like
maybe rainbow. So that's very cute.
I know I just want one in every size because they're sweet, but
I found that with the last release despite knowing that I'm
like OK we don't need to buy anymore a fives.
That was the only notebook I got was a 5 because I'm like this
design. It looks best on an A5 and I
want it in an A5. Yeah, that's the other thing
too. I was noticing that not to go on
a side tangent, but especially again, I'm talking Archer and
Olive specifically because they've been doing a lot of
these full size full cover ones. They do look a little bit
different on every difference on each size.
Now where I feel you on that, you're like that looks really
good on square, but A5 looking a little little squishy.
Yeah, like I found that with the what?
The foliage one that was from last year.
This one looked best on the square.
It was best on the square, hands down.
Fight me. But with the ship pulled into a
harbour. What?
The Shipwheel one that came out in the last release.
Oh, the compass. Yeah, any of the ones that were
on the A5 or like the B5, anything that was rectangular,
but not like an exaggeratedly long rectangle because I thought
it looked weird on the Travellers and it didn't look
quite right on the square. But personal opinion don't fight
me but. I'm getting the square one so
I'll see what it looks like when it gets here.
I won't know the difference. It's just me being a persnickety
biscuit, so don't worry. It's fine.
You can be whatever you want. Just that's what makes you
amazing. That's why we all love you, all
right? Never have I ever glued an
entire month together in my journal because I didn't like
the way it looked. No, I just abandoned the
notebook makes. It easy.
Burn it. Yeah.
I've never glued a month together.
I feel like that's a lot. I've glued a page together
because I didn't like the way that it looked.
Have I told you the cactus story before?
I think I heard about it maybe but not the podcast.
You should tell them. Probably my third bullet journal
and it was a big, huge one I got from Walmart and the pages
weren't great. This is before I understood what
page quality really was or anything like that.
And I was like, OK, I'm going to do this big like page because
it's a huge B5 size thing. And I was like really at that
point like into like succulents and cacti and things like that.
So I draw all my boxes and then I decided I'm going to draw
these cacti coming out from like the sides of the boxes and I go
through and I create it and I'm like, those don't look like
cactus to me. They were very phallic in
nature, not intentionally like it was just something that I was
looked at. I was like, Oh my gosh, it is a
page of penises. It's like this, I can't, I can't
take this to work. Then I went ahead and got a glue
stick and I just wanted the whole page and stuck it
together. I was like, oh, I'm good.
And I go to work and I'm like sitting there working and doing
something right on the page opposite of it.
And someone's like, oh, what's wait, what's on this other side
of your paper? I was like, what are you talking
about? And I realized the paper was so
thin that you could see the drawings on the opposite side of
the paper. And I was like oh nothing close
my notebook and start turning red and leave the room.
Oh no, the ghost of penises past like.
That's exactly. Oh my God.
I'm using that from now on. That is amazing.
That's exactly what it was. They had come back to haunt me.
They were. But yeah, so I mean a page I've
done, I've never drawn a cactus since I went strictly stickers
and stamps, but never done a whole month.
That seems like a lot. I would just abandoned it too I
feel like. The only phallic incident that I
had in my journal was when I was doing like tea stained paper and
you put kind of like splotches down and stuff.
So you have darker sections and whatever was not paying
attention got to the end of a drying and I'm like, Oh no, Oh
dear. Like I didn't expect that to be
on the page, but I didn't fix it.
I just wrote over the top of it. And I hope that it wasn't too
noticeable. But every time I turned back to
the page, I'm like, oh, hi again, friend.
It's such a pleasure to see you again.
Did you have like two small splotches on like one long
splotch? Is that what was happening or?
It was kind of like like Bent and I'm not going to explain it.
We'll show it to you. If you're on the video podcast,
you get to see it. But yeah, it's certainly a time.
Won't be doing that again. Or if I do do it again, I'm
going to be a little bit more mindful as to where I put my
coffee rings versus my like ink blowouts, so.
Ink blowouts. OK.
In terms of sticking pages together, though, I don't think
I've stuck more than one page together.
But if I was going to stick a lot of pages together, probably
not too many, especially not in a really thick paper notebook.
But I would probably encourage you to think about like trimming
the internal pages down. Because when you stick pages
together, it does start to make kind of like a bit of bulk, a
very thick kind of card stocky kind of feel.
So possibly with the internal pages, trim them to at least
halfway, maybe even a little bit more, and then just stick the
outer pages together just to kind of reduce the feeling of
that really kind of cardstock S type deal.
But yeah, not one that I'm probably gonna do, but possibly
a solution. All right, next one.
Oh, OK, so never have I ever hoarded station because I got
too excited about it. Oh my God.
I don't think I'm necessarily hoarded because I was excited,
but I've hoarded it because I felt like it was like limited
supply by Incit. Like this is hoarding like a
dragon scarcity type deal. Like oh, if I use this up then I
won't have it again and it was limited release or whatever like
that. But in terms of just being
excited about it, probably not so much for me.
What do you reckon? I mean, you saw me gulp down
have my coffee. I am so guilty of this one.
I do it especially for Eric. Small things.
So anything that she creates and if you're not familiar with Eric
small things, she's a Japanese eraser artist and she just makes
the cutest, coolest like designs ever and their stamps and their
stickers. And I even have a cup that I
bought because it had Eric small things on it.
Do I need this? I'm currently drying a nib
inside of here. Like I, I didn't necessarily
need it, but it was just, I get so excited for anything she
releases. And every now and again I will
go on like a stationary shopping spree on cute things from Japan
because there's a $100 minimum for their ship it for free and I
have to spend that. And so I will just go crazy.
So anytime I see there's a new release and now people know
about it too and I won't even see it, they'll message me.
Be like, Mark, did you see the latest thing that Eric Small
Things released? And I'm like, damn you, I didn't
see it, but now I need to buy it and I just go and I just go
crazy on it. So definitely do that.
Let Mark live in blissful ignorance.
He doesn't need to know. But also like, totally tell him
because it's fun getting to see what he buys.
Yeah, and that's my own money. That's not even that influencer
money. That's me just being a
stationary geek. All right, next one.
Never have I ever created my own stickers.
Yes. I won't do it, I don't know how
to and I'm scared. I have but not necessarily like
anything fancy. Like I'll print off book covers
for my reading journal on sticker paper and then just cut
them out. I have a cricket.
It's it's staring at me right now.
I can't make eye contact because then it'll it'll know we were
talking about it. I have not used it in a little
while. Most of the time when I make
stickers, I usually just draw on sticker paper and then cut it
out myself rather than trying to like make a digital image or
anything like that. I make printables, but I don't
often turn them into stickers. Yeah, I haven't been able to
figure that. I'm sure I could figure out.
I was making stencils for a while.
Like I found out how to make my cricket maker make stencils and
that was very cool. But stickers, for some reason to
me just feels like a thing that I don't know that I would feel
confident in trying because I feel like you have to do a lot
of things to make it work. And people on the Internet make
it look very easy. Like you see the reels where
someone's like tapping on their iPad and then suddenly it
becomes a sticker. And then they show their wall of
crickets or silhouettes that are like printing things out
constantly. And I was just like, see, my
problem is that I would get so into it and then that's what it
would be. Go away books and inks.
This would just be a wall of crickets, just constantly
printing crap that I would never use.
But that's just how I get about new hobbies, so it's probably
best that I don't make my own stickers.
Yeah, I like to go and support sticker businesses instead and
purchase from them. I don't really use stickers a
lot all that much though, so that's probably part of why I
haven't really gotten into making them for myself.
My friend Monica, she makes stickers for her reading
journal. Like she'll either buy like
digital art from sticker shops and then print them at home and
stuff because shipping to the ass end of the world.
Like we said, it's expensive. And also it just means that you
can, you know, print and use multiple times.
You could also do possibly some like color editing on it if you
wanted it to fit in with a theme that you're doing or whatever
like that. So that's kind of how she likes
to do them. For me, it's very much I will
print out book covers, I will print out like headers, but I
usually don't print them on sticker paper.
I usually print them on brown paper bags so that I can rip
them up and make them look kind of like collagi and stick those
into my journal. Right, Next one is.
Never have I ever tried to convert everyone I know to
bullet journaling. Oh gosh, yeah.
It's one of those things though, like when you find something
that's useful and that works really well and you want to
share it with other people and you want to let them know about
it. But the nice part is that by
converting people that I know to bullet journaling, I now have my
little Bujo Wednesday crew. So they come over to mine or I
go over at theirs every Wednesday and we do journaling
together. Is it the like pure bullet
journal method? Possibly not, but I don't care.
It's fun. Yeah, I think early on for me
was definitely telling everybody about it.
Anytime anyone gets excited about anything, especially me,
I'm like, I have to tell everyone I know about this.
This is so awesome. This is so cool.
I do it less now, but it's probably because I'm remote now.
It was different when I was in person.
And people would always ask me like, wait, what are you doing
there? Or, oh, did you create that?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, I bullet journal.
So now it's mostly in conversations where people talk
about like, well, how are you keeping yourself organized or
what tools or tips are you using or resources?
And then I'll mention it there in like a work meeting.
Be like, oh, have you tried bullet journaling?
I've been doing that for seven years and it's been working
great for me, but definitely not like it used to be when I was
just like, everybody bowl a journal.
Hey, oh, you have a problem. You should bowl a journal.
I say to my kids and my wife all the time now though, too.
They'll be like, I really need something like bullet journal.
Get a bullet journal. They're like, I don't want to
make my own. I'm like, get a bullet journal,
I'll make it for you. Yeah, have you heard about our
Lord and Savior writer Carol? It's always very much sharing
the good word. No, I think that for me, because
I work for myself at my house and very rarely go out unless
you see people I already know. I'm kind of tapped out in terms
of the number of people that I can tell about it, unless it's
people on the Internet. And if you're finding my
content, it's probably because you were looking for that
anyway, so. I'm hoping that I'm keeping
track the right way 'cause I I have 7 notes down here, but I
feel like I've drank a lot more coffee than seven times.
But maybe that's just me. All right, let's go through our
next one. All right, Never have I ever
switched to a new Bullet journal set up after spending hours
making one because the vibes were off.
I never let myself get to that point.
I'm OK. I'm not drinking for that one
because I would never allow myself to set up a notebook and
then not use it like and that's me personally here, but I make
sure the vibes are on before I even put anything down in my
paper. I recently even was just using
post it notes to like write what was going to go on those pages
and almost kind of sketched out like a little detail of like
what I thought it would look like.
Just because at this point now I've done this and set up so
many notebooks like I know what I want and what I'm into.
So I don't think I would ever allow myself to do something
where the vibes were off. I've definitely had pages where
the vibes were off, but never an entire notebook.
Yeah, I think the only time that I can consider where the vibes
were off when I was doing a setup was when I was trying to
repurpose a notebook halfway through using it.
I'd set it up as kind of like a goals journal and hadn't really
utilized it in the way I wanted, but there was still plenty of
the notebook left. So I was like, OK, well, maybe I
can transition this to like a content planner.
But having the, like, new journal set up in the middle of
the journal gave me the ick. Like, I just did not enjoy it at
all. So after setting that one up, I
did end up setting up another one.
It's not like I completely abandoned the notebook.
I just turned it into an R&D journal.
So I used it for making layouts for the channel, like, you know,
ideal layouts, whatever else. So the notebook still got used.
It's not just like sitting in dormancy, like one day she'll
come back to me. It got used, fully used.
But yeah, that's probably the only instance of it.
I'll give myself a point though. Yeah, you should give yourself a
point. And you haven't been drinking
enough Coke 0 for this game for me.
People don't need to see me chug Tink.
OK, so our next one is never have I ever bought an expensive
notebook with no idea what I was going to use it for.
That's like every notebook I buy.
I was just going to say what? My list.
What are we deeming as expensive?
I consider, I consider Archer and Olive expensive because I
don't know, I think I have a very weird relationship with
like how much things cost versus how much I think they should
cost in a way. Anytime I go out for dinner, 26
bucks. I don't think so.
Mr. So I think that in my mind an Ultranola notebook is
definitely expensive. And so anytime I buy an Ultra
and Olive, I guess if I don't have a defined purpose for it,
then I am buying an expensive notebook for no reason.
No, I fought it 'cause I liked it.
But. Yeah, those heirloom ones that
came out with the ones that are like the longer, I don't even
know what size that is. I think it's technically letter
size turned sideways. And I have them and I'm just
like, I need to do something with them because I purchased
these, I purchased extra of these.
They need to have a purpose and an idea because otherwise I
can't justify why I have it on my shelf other than I really
like the way it looks. That's that's it.
It's usually just I bought it because maybe a little bit of
FOMO and I like the way it looks.
All righty, next one. Never have I ever bought
duplicate stationery because I forgot that I already had it.
Yeah, drink up Buttercup. I don't think mine is because I
forgot I had it. It's more that like I purchased
it and then somebody sent it to me for free or vice versa.
Like my most recent issue with that was buying Clicker and then
sitting at the zebra table and getting the same pack of click
arts that I just purchased to complete my collection.
I've done that with the Archer and Olive.
This is called garden snake or the Slytherin snake.
It was an older design. I don't think they've released
it or they maybe archived it or whatever.
But it was one of those things where I really liked the design
of that notebook. And I had one and then I think I
bought another one at some point and had it on my shelf.
And then they were like, we're having a sale and we're getting
rid of these. And I was like, I don't think I
have this notebook. And then when I did my notebook
cataloging, I was like, I have three of the garden steak ones
because I didn't know that I already had the one and I bought
the other one and then forgot that I had it and then somehow
ended up with three of them. The joke in my house is always
about Terminator two because my dad bought like 3 copies of
Terminator two or something like that.
So for the longest time it was just like Oh well we don't want
to buy a duplicate, we don't want another Terminator two
fiasco. But then when I was over at my
parents house earlier this year helping them tidy up, my mum had
two copies of the same sewing book.
So my dad's like vindication. Like, that's not just me.
I feel like everybody needs to take a drink for this one, but
it's like never have I ever written down a task that I
already did just so I could cross it off.
I do this on the jail. Yeah, I just did this today
actually, But I do it as a way to, I'm gonna say memory keep.
Not in the sense that I think we use it often, but really to
remind myself that I have done that already.
So when I go back to read through it, it's like, Oh yeah,
you did e-mail that person to do that.
Because I felt weird, Like I'm in the middle of running an
e-mail to be like, oh, I need to remind myself that I need to do
this or did it. And I'm like, I'm not going to
stop now. I'm just sent it and I'm like,
OK, emailed this person for this reason.
So I do that all the time. And also, you know, it should
have gone in there and you should be prioritizing the task,
but you're like, I'm just going to blow through these real
quick. And you're like, but I'm going
to track that. I blew through them real quick.
Exactly. I think of it kind of like as an
achievement log. It's like a record of progress
kind of a thing. Because otherwise, if I don't
write these things down, I get to the end of the day and go
like, what the heck did I even accomplish?
So if I have those little things that I've written down, even
after having done them, I can look back over the day and be
like, actually you did use your time effectively.
You were productive. It's just, you know, the stuff
that you didn't necessarily outline at the start of the day
as things to get done because stuff comes up.
So I still want to have that. Captured somewhere to feel good
about the fact that I actually used my time wisely.
Yeah, there is. It's called the distraction
method. It's something Rachel in theory
did. And I love this one because she
was doing this to track when other people were telling her to
do things that were not on her list.
And so she was kind of writing them down afterwards just to be
able to look back and be like, here's why I wasn't able to
accomplish the things I needed to today because these people
told me I needed to do something else.
And I thought that was very interesting.
So it's, you know, not always a bad thing just for like visuals,
but sometimes it's a really great to track.
Like these other things did happen.
I'm just going to get a note that they happen to be aware of
them. So I don't see it as a bad
thing. But I've definitely also done it
to like fill out my page, I'm not going to lie.
Yeah, I just call those side quests.
It's like, OK, well, this was the main quest for the day, the
thing that you kind of hope to get done, but these are all of
the other things that you don't know, not necessarily like
distracted yourself with. Like they still needed doing,
they still got done or whatever, but they were the side missions,
the ones that weren't necessarily the daily
highlighter, the daily focus. I love it.
That's something I saw one of the videos recently, it said
ADHD is just constant side quest never getting to the main story.
I was like, oh, that's so incredibly true.
That's how I play all of my games, so I might as well play
my life that way too. All right, our next one.
Never have I ever bought stationery because everyone else
had it. I think I'm safe for the most
part. Just to prove that I do this all
the time. So everyone had been posting
about these right track pens, right?
They were like, it's a retractable pen and it's and it
was just like all my favorite pen fluencers were like posting
about it. And I was like, well, now I need
it. And so I bought it and I was
like, did I need this? No, but everyone else had it.
It was somewhat inexpensive. I was like, add it to the
collection. My favorite part of this though,
I just, I think I posted about this too.
It has stab warnings all over it.
So it's a retractable pen. So if you're on YouTube or
visual, see this right? It's the one where you press it
and it comes out of a little hole, and I guess people forget
that that happens. So they're constantly stabbing
themselves with it. But there was a disclaimer on
the pen case. There was a disclaimer on the
pen, there was instructions, and there was a disclaimer on the
ink as well. Like don't stab yourself when
doing this. So now it's just my funny, super
dangerous killer pen. And I did make jokes about it
all the time. Who knew that fountain penning
was such a dangerous sport? Oh my Lord.
It is so dangerous, especially with stabby pens.
I don't think that I've necessarily purchased a
stationary item just because I saw that a whole bunch of other
people had it. But maybe you just have like
more self-awareness than I do. Maybe that is exactly what I'm
doing and I'm just not like cottoned on to the facts.
Well, it's hard. We talked about Archer and Olive
all the time just because I feel like they're so guilty of it
because they have their products for the amount that they have,
right. I think I know a number of
people online complain about it sometimes, but they're like, if
I don't buy it at that moment and everyone else is talking
about it or doing whatever they're doing within the market
is always really great. But you do you feel like I have
to buy it because everyone's so excited about it and talking
about it. I feel like that is a main area
for for me where it's just like if you see a lot of people
mentioning it, I see it in stories and it's not even that
they've purchased it. Sometimes it's like, oh, Twisby
released this new pen. Like they had a new like latte
color, right? I have 5 ecos now.
I have a lot of them, right? Like I technically don't need
it, but then everyone's like, Oh my gosh, I'm buying this.
This is the perfect color. I have the perfect ink to go
with this pen. And I was like, do I want this?
I think I want this. I do.
I need it. I don't know that I need.
I think about my grandmother all the time.
You know, she's this little Brazilian woman.
And she was like, Mark, it's there's a difference between
want and need. And I was like, yeah, but I need
that Lego set Volvo. Like it's not a, it's not a
want. I need that.
So I always think about her, whatever I'm like, but do I need
it or do I just want it? See, I always think about my mom
in those kind of instances where mom will say like, oh, rah, rah,
you know, want something or whatever kind of thing.
I'm like, mom, you don't need it.
She didn't need who said anything about need?
I want this. I'm like good on you mom,
knowing what you want. I want this sewing notebook.
You're like, you already have one of these in your bookcase.
You don't need another one to like.
I don't care. I couldn't find the last one, so
I bought another one. That's probably what happens.
What? Oh my gosh, so many books.
Like tiny Drumroll? Not really.
So never have I ever added $20.00 of stationery to get free
shipping, which would have only been $8.
So guilty. Oh my gosh, it's, it's just like
a marketing ploy, like free shipping or the word sale or
anything like that. I'm a sucker for it.
It's going to get me. That's why I have to stay away
from the Internet sometimes. Yeah, I'm very much like this.
I mean, I was kind of talking before with like, cute things
from Japan. I have to spend $100 to get free
shipping. And the shipping isn't always
like, crazy expensive, but sometimes it is.
So I just know, like, if I'm going to shop there, I will be
spending $100 and I will be getting free shipping shipping.
But I definitely price it out for myself if I'm buying other
things. And it is like, you know, spend
an extra $10 to get free shipping.
And so I'll go through the whole process to see how much shipping
is. And then I find a way to justify
it in my mind, like, well, I did want that other stamp set that's
$10.00. So technically I'm saving money.
And then I just. Yeah.
I think the Internet calls that girl math.
But like it is very much that kind of like the way that we
like justify these purchases to ourselves.
It's like if it's buy one, get one free, it's free like the
whole thing or whatever. I'm the same way.
All right, Jess, so that was our last one, so let's go ahead and
tally up. I have a belly full of coffee.
I'm extremely hyped up right now.
How many points did you get for Never Have I Evers?
Well, out of the 20 that we had, I got 12 of them, so I'm not
feeling too bad. I feel like they weren't too
targeted except for maybe somebody throwing out that
rainbow comment. But 12 out of 20?
Not too bad. Yeah, that was directly aimed at
you. I know, right?
Attacked. I have 13 really thinking
through those. Anything that I just blatantly
have not done, I'm like, yeah, not me, but the other ones, it's
a little harder because you're like, well, I could definitely
think of how I could do this. Oh, I'm definitely playing in
the Gray area. We definitely know we're like,
look, we don't look too crazy, but also at the same time like
it's reality. So a big thank you to everyone
who submitted your never have I Evers.
We had so many of them we could play this game for for go wild
long episode, but we're not going to do that to you today.
So thank you. Definitely let us know in the
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Cannot wait. I've got one more.
Never have I ever for you, Jess. Never have I ever used a digital
planner before. I have.
I actually made one for myself and actually sell it on my tiny
online shop. Huzzah.
No, no, shout out to that. What?
I didn't know that about you. Yeah, no, I, I, I got to the end
of one of my notebooks at one point and I'm just like, I only
have enough space for one month and there's November and
December. I'm not transferring to a new
notebook for just one month of the year.
So I was like, OK, how can we? What's the work around here?
And I decided to use a digital notebook that I made on Notion
for a month, which was an interesting experiment.
What about you? Digital planning.
I've dabbled in the digital planning before and tried some
things out, so I think we should make a whole episode out of it.
How about that? That sounds like a good time.
All righty. Let's do that for our next one.
So next time coming up on the Flanner Pals podcast, digital
planning. All right.
The benefits, the cons, would that be something that we'd
actually transition to at one point or are we very much firmly
in camp pen and paper? I can't wait for that episode
and to hear more about your little stationary shop that I
didn't know that you even had. Jess, This is like a new secret
that we're uncovered and to share overall digital planning
stories with you all next time. Thank you so much for hanging
out, Planner Pals, and we'll talk to you next time.