1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,680 Welcome to the Planner Pals Podcast, a podcast hosted by two 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,240 true planner pals. My name is Mark and I go by Mark 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,560 Your pages. And I'm Jess or Jessie Curran, 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,680 and in today's episode, we're talking about things that we 5 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,320 just kind of regret bringing into our planner and stationary 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,480 stashes, things that maybe didn't get used as much as we 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,520 would have hoped. They were things that didn't 8 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,760 work out as the, you know, way that we kind of wanted them to. 9 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,760 They're not necessarily all bad products. 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,120 I need to be careful because my fingers like really sore, but 11 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,880 they're not bad AD products, but they are things that we just 12 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,080 don't really find that we're using as much as would be ideal 13 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,080 given the fact that we purchased these things. 14 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,680 Jess, I feel really bad your poor little rabbit fingers are 15 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:44,200 not doing their job today. It's so sad. 16 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,480 Yeah, no, I I had a run in with a knife in a not so fun way, so. 17 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,640 Oh well. I'm just thankful you didn't 18 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,760 share the photo with me because I would have not ended up well. 19 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,280 Gosh, I wasn't doing well. I was kind of like, you know, 20 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:56,760 all righty, Oh, it's fine. It's all good. 21 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,840 Nothing's happening. And then it starts to, you know, 22 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,560 build the Nope, Nope, Nope. Like need to sit down, deep 23 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,160 breathing kind of thing. So yeah, don't need to show 24 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,600 anybody on the Internet that we've just got our friend and 25 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,360 little guy here. His name is JT, which stands for 26 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,120 Just the Tip. Risky, Barry, I was gonna say, 27 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,760 well, maybe JT can make a few appearances when we give you 28 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,000 close up to the things that we're talking about today that 29 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,800 didn't quite workout. And thanks for giving that 30 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,000 little preface to the conversation here today because 31 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,200 I had a really hard time because a lot of these things I really 32 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,680 love. It's just that I don't really 33 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,240 use them and part of me definitely regrets purchase seen 34 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,000 them or as many of them as I have. 35 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,880 That's probably the other problem that I have. 36 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,880 I don't regret all of the purchases, just how many in some 37 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,880 cases. Yeah, when you have, I don't 38 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,960 know, anybody can relate, you let us know. 39 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,800 I have a tendency to, once I get one of something I very much 40 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,000 like a Pokémon got to catch them all kind of mindset. 41 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,960 So it's like, oh, you got 1 of this, like, you know, particular 42 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,240 brand of pen, so we need to go get all of the pens from that 43 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,440 collection. You got 1 of this type of 44 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:56,760 notebook. Now you feel like you need to 45 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,560 get all of them, even though it's like you're not necessarily 46 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,400 trying to fill out the collection completely. 47 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,720 But I am a bit of a completionist when it comes to 48 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,200 those things and it can be just like a little bit dangerous. 49 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,759 That's exactly it. You hit the nail on the head. 50 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,240 I have a completionist nature to me as well, and it's just like, 51 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,440 I see, I was like, I need to have these things. 52 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,320 So let's go ahead and kick into some of these because it'll just 53 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,440 roll right into all the completionist tendencies that we 54 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:21,680 have. Jess, why don't you kick us off 55 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,920 with one of the first things you regret buying? 56 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,960 So my probably one of the biggest regrets and I don't do 57 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:29,920 it so much anymore. So that's like, I know maybe a 58 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:34,640 slight win is buying notebooks without a kind of purpose for 59 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:35,920 what they're going to be used for. 60 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,120 I'm not so much thinking about my current addiction to Archer 61 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,480 and Olive and 160 GSM ones because like, yeah, OK, it's a 62 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,760 problem, but it's a problem I'm happy to have. 63 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,600 What I'm also thinking about is when I first got started with 64 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,920 journalling and planning and I started thinking like, oh, I 65 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:51,600 need a journal for this and a journal for that, and I'm going 66 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,920 to have this one and that one. But I didn't do any kind of 67 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:57,400 testing or trial runs as to how those were going to work. 68 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,080 So like I started a language learning journal and filled out 69 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,800 2 pages. I started a travel journal and 70 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,920 kept it for maybe 3 or 4 trips and then realized that wasn't 71 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:09,080 really how I like to do my memory keeping. 72 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,720 So I ended up buying these notebooks that only ended up 73 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,800 very kind of like small amounts of use, partial use. 74 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,640 And because they're not the type of notebooks I now use, you 75 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,680 know, my 160 GSM with like none of the bleeding and all of that 76 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,320 kind of thing. I have them in my stash still 77 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,000 because I still reference them in videos but I just wish they 78 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,720 had gotten used more and they probably would have gotten used 79 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,200 more if I had more of it. Like solid set in stone plan as 80 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,120 to how they were going to get used. 81 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,840 I don't have as many of those previous because I was very it's 82 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,320 the right word. Frugal is that the right word 83 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,120 where you're like don't want to spend your money on stuff, 84 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,240 whereas frugal mean the opposite, where you buy you 85 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,080 don't care. I think frugal means that you're 86 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,920 not gonna spend the money. OK, if that's if I'm using that 87 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,960 word correctly, then that was me early on. 88 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:55,760 I remember when I bought my very first Lloystrom 1917 and I was 89 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,600 freaking out because it was like a $20 notebook and I was just 90 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,040 freaking out like, Oh my gosh, I'm spending all this money on a 91 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,640 notebook. So early on I didn't have that 92 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,680 problem because I was so nervous about it. 93 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,440 But now do I spend way too much money and buy way too many of 94 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,080 them? It's a it's very different than 95 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,720 seven years ago. Yeah. 96 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,600 I think there's like even though the kind of, you know, problem 97 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,440 area or my consideration of the problem area is, you know, the 98 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,080 way back when, the days of yesteryear 2017 kind of a thing. 99 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,160 I think it's just because the types of notebooks I was buying 100 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,440 because I'm, you know, at that point I was purchasing LT19 101 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,800 seventeens as well, but they're not my preferred notebook 102 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,280 anymore. So I still have them in my 103 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:35,400 stash, but I know that they just, I don't want to say 104 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,000 they're not going to get used, but currently they are not being 105 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,280 used. I use a lot of mine, honestly, 106 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,800 for the R&D journals we talk about when I'm just kind of 107 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,600 figuring out some ideas or sketching some things out. 108 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,360 They're kind of my go to and then I just skip a whole extra 109 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:49,880 page because I don't like the ghosting. 110 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,440 And we talked about that in previous episodes about 111 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,160 especially when you're putting things out on the Internet, 112 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,640 Internet around notebooks, you don't want to see what's on 113 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,840 those other pages in there. And I don't feel bad about it 114 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,160 like I used to because I have so many other notebooks now I feel 115 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:03,760 like. No that that's very fair. 116 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,160 I don't mind using them for scribbling notes but I've been 117 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,080 because I've been taking into the using the kokuyo like spiral 118 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,680 bound the soft ring or whatever. Maybe I should, once those ones 119 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,840 are done, just pull out some of the LT19 seventeens and use them 120 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:18,800 for that, because then at least they're getting a use. 121 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:21,240 Yeah, I love a solution. It works out well. 122 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,280 Well, it actually helps out because while we were talking 123 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:25,800 about this, I'll take mine just a little bit out of order of 124 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,840 what I was going to go in because it's actually perfectly 125 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:30,680 pairs with it because I have a notebook that I purchased. 126 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,880 This is from president, correct? And it's called an archive 127 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,760 diary. So this is something that I saw 128 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:37,440 on their website and when I first saw it, I was like, this 129 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,960 is the coolest damn notebook. I actually have another one that 130 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,760 has a top left corner spiral bound is how it's held together. 131 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,280 So it's like a vertical notepad doc grid paper. 132 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,880 Love it, but it's just not something I would normally use 133 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,040 and this it's almost just like one big calendar like there's no 134 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,480 real purpose behind it honestly. And as we were talking, I was 135 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,600 like, oh, you know what I could do with something like this like 136 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,600 maybe I could use this for my advent calendar for the ink one 137 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,480 that I bought because that'll be a full month of it. 138 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,000 But then I'll still have a notebook that has I don't even 139 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,920 know how many other pages inside of here blank until I think of 140 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,800 another idea for it. But but this is one of those 141 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,480 that I regret. This is kind of what I'm talking 142 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,160 about now essentially is that now that I'm not as frugal about 143 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,840 it or I'm, I'm just more open to trying new things that I get 144 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:23,600 excited by new stationary. It's actually the story of 145 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,840 everything I'll be talking about today is my excitement around 146 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:28,600 just different types of fun stationary. 147 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,280 This was definitely one of them where I thought, oh, I could 148 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:33,040 definitely use this for something. 149 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:36,040 I'm just not quite sure exactly just yet. 150 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,520 I mean, as a folder in the front cover and everything, like it's 151 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,520 essentially a project notebook I feel like, which would be pretty 152 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:42,920 cool. There are some blank pages and 153 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,840 some calendar pages. I just really have no idea like 154 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:47,160 what I would actually do with it. 155 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,280 So this is one of my regrets. Love president. 156 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:51,960 Correct. I love their different type of 157 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,760 like cool old school notebooks. Just kind of regret buying it 158 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,200 because I have two of them because I couldn't just buy one 159 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,200 and they just sit on my shelf and look pretty. 160 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:01,720 That's not how it gets you, right? 161 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,800 Like you just like I'm sure I could find A use for it. 162 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,840 I could find something to use for this like because it's nice 163 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:09,480 or because it's interesting or whatever. 164 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,640 And then you bring it into your stash and then you never really 165 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,560 get around to finding A use for it or figuring out what 166 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,280 specifically it will be used for. 167 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,920 It's like, cool, cool. Now I just have an overabundance 168 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,200 of things. Before we move on to our next 169 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,080 item, I'm curious if you ever buy stuff like this though, for 170 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,080 the sake of it being a shelf trophy. 171 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,640 Because I have something, it's actually a notepad that's made 172 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,480 out of napkins. And I've had it for over 15 173 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,880 years because the whole idea in the design space and anywhere 174 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,720 really, right, You're writing notes on napkins. 175 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,760 Ideas come to anywhere. So I bought it for myself and I 176 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,560 really, honestly bought it just to sit on my shelf. 177 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,680 And it does sit on my shelf and it has been clearly displayed in 178 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,120 the plastic packaging for all of this time. 179 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,680 I will never use it to write on. It's dumb to do that. 180 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,760 But have you ever bought any like notebooks or any kind of 181 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,880 stuff or stationary even where you strictly buy just because 182 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,360 you know it's going to sit on yourself? 183 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,200 Despite calling them shelf trophies, usually when I 184 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,880 purchase a notebook then the intention is not just to have it 185 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,840 sit on the shelf like they get displayed. 186 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,080 They get put on the shelf so that they can look nice, look 187 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,480 pretty. Makes my office feel like a 188 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,120 special place to be in. But I know I'm going to use them 189 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,000 at some point. Might just take me a while. 190 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,120 I have been finding more recently that with like the full 191 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,960 cover notebooks, in particular, the ones that are absolutely 192 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,680 gorgeous, those ones have been the ones I've been kind of like 193 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,640 leaning towards in terms of picking them up for my everyday 194 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,600 journal use. So like for instance, my 195 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,400 everyday journal for this year, like both of them, because they 196 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,400 were two, the first one was a full cover design. 197 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,679 It was like the foliage one with the square notebook. 198 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,240 Oh my God, so beautiful. And then the second one was the 199 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,159 wanderlust. So it's like, yes, those ones, 200 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,159 well, one of them at least was displayed on the shelf and was 201 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,880 kind of like a shelf trophy, but it was then very promptly used 202 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,720 for an actual notebook that I was using on a daily basis. 203 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,400 So although they are kind of like looking pretty lined up, 204 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,960 looking nice and I do not necessarily buying them for the 205 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,600 intention for them to be there, but I know that that's where 206 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,680 they're going to be stored until I use them, if that kind of 207 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:03,160 makes sense. Totally make sense. 208 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,280 I've been doing that with like behind me trying to find 209 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,720 notebooks and the covers and things like that that I like 210 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,320 that make it look interesting back there. 211 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,360 Of course, a lot of the Halloween ones that are behind 212 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,120 me look so cool and especially like Archer and Olive and other 213 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,600 brands that have started to add more decoration and like really 214 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,760 focus on their packaging. It just looks so cool. 215 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,360 I love putting them back there now. 216 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,200 So it's definitely like a select curated notebook list of things 217 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,200 that are back there. I will eventually use them. 218 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,600 I know that I have them. I have catalogued them. 219 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,080 It's just they look kind of cool for right now and that's where 220 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,320 they will be because I'm actually running out of space 221 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:35,840 for the other one. Yeah, fair. 222 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,840 I was thinking about it. I don't think there's probably 223 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,040 one that is a shelf trophy. Like, I know that I'm most 224 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,720 likely not going to use it, but when I purchased it, the 225 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,120 intention wasn't for it to be a shelf trophy. 226 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,360 When I purchased it, I was actually planning on making it 227 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,680 my reading journal because I thought, you know, the reading 228 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:52,560 journal you're probably going to keep for a while because you 229 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:54,880 don't read very much. It'll take a while to fill up 230 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,080 and stuff. And it would be nice to have 231 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,080 something that looked pretty and looked special. 232 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,920 And then the notebook arrived and I swear, like, you know, 233 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,760 talking about planner regrets, I don't necessarily regret buying 234 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,000 it because I wouldn't have known if I didn't buy it. 235 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,080 But the notebook from the Quirky Cup Collective is the one of the 236 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,880 biggest disappointments in a notebook I have ever had. 237 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:13,560 And that's not to say it's a bad notebook. 238 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:15,800 All right, It might be for you. It might be the kind of thing 239 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,200 that you vibe with, but there are just certain features in 240 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,040 that notebook that do not work for me. 241 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,440 For instance, it has like the sharp edges rather than rounded 242 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,400 edges. I didn't know that about myself 243 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,280 until I got the notebook in my hands. 244 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,840 It was like, oh, this feels very aggressive. 245 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,000 But the most annoying part is probably the fact that the dot 246 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,960 grid isn't consistently 5mm like I think it's 5mm, not even 247 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:39,960 between the dots and the dots are quite large. 248 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,080 So it means that all of the measurements that I, you know, 249 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,760 know, like and trust have been completely thrown off if I was 250 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,880 going to be using that notebook. So that one is a shelf trophy, 251 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,680 but it wasn't the intention when I bought it. 252 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:51,960 Makes total sense. All right, Jess, what do we got 253 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:53,360 going on next? We talked about notebooks. 254 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,720 I mean, I have more notebooks to talk about, but that I saved for 255 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,840 the end because we've got some numbers to throw out. 256 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,600 What's your next item that you absolutely regret purchasing 257 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:02,120 all? Right. 258 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,720 He's stepping away from notebooks. 259 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,120 I think that one would be any kind of glue tape roller that 260 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,560 just was ineffective. And it's one of those things 261 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:12,080 that you don't necessarily know until you open up the packaging 262 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,560 and then you try and use it and the tape is busted or it doesn't 263 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:16,200 lay down nicely or anything like that. 264 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,280 But life is too short to struggle through an ineffective 265 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:20,920 glue tape roller. Oh my gosh. 266 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,760 Like the entire purpose of buying the glue tape roller is 267 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,800 for convenience and quickness, and it just makes setups easier. 268 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,920 So if it doesn't roll nicely or if the glue doesn't actually lay 269 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,360 down properly, or maybe the glue is like colour in a way that 270 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,880 means that you can't really use it unless with like specific 271 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,680 materials and stuff like that. The worst, and this isn't even 272 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:43,120 necessarily like cheap glue tape rollers because oftentimes the 273 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,560 ones that are like, you know, cost effective once you get on 274 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:47,520 like stationary power and whatever, they're actually 275 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,440 really handy. They're usually like smaller and 276 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,520 then travel size and you can take them with you and stick in 277 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,840 pieces of ephemera into your journal, like whatever. 278 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,600 But the ones that got to me and they just did not do what I 279 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,920 needed them to do, that is a bigger regret. 280 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,160 Yeah, these type of things. I know what you're talking about 281 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:03,800 here. I have maybe one or two. 282 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,840 I think people told me a while back, like bark, why are you 283 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,720 using glue sticks? An actual like tacky liquid 284 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:10,360 glue? Have you ever heard of a tape 285 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,080 roller? And I was like, no, I've never 286 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:13,480 heard of a tape roller. So I bought 1. 287 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:15,080 I think it's from Tombow actually. 288 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:16,800 And I know what you mean. It's like when you roll it 289 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,520 across your page and either the stickiness doesn't actually make 290 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,280 it onto the surface or the thing I hate the most about those is 291 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,280 when that little piece of cellophane kind of gets wound up 292 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:27,440 and they're weird. And then you're in there with 293 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,160 like a little paper clip or something trying to rewind it. 294 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,400 I never know which way it is. I just feel like I'm wasting it 295 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,240 honestly. Yeah, I found that the Tombo 296 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,800 ones that I've used previously have worked fairly well. 297 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,960 I haven't had any that were like a real big problem, but there 298 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,400 are some brands in particular and then ones that are like, I'm 299 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,880 going to say New Zealand natives. 300 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,160 So most people probably don't have them. 301 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,040 I think it's called like Unity or something like that with the 302 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,040 I and Y are switched. I don't know, it's like it's an 303 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,800 OK brand. It's supposed to be kind of like 304 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,200 a white label ish, cheap ish brand. 305 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,560 But when you get anything to New Zealand, everything is actually 306 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:04,680 kind of expensive, so it isn't that cheap. 307 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,840 I would rather go and buy the cheap ones on stationary power 308 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,320 that are from brands that I know like and Trust and will actually 309 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:11,760 work. I hear you on that. 310 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,760 What would be your next regretful purchase? 311 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:19,680 So it's very much in line with these sticker tapes, the Deco 312 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:23,120 Rush tapes, they're exactly kind of what we're talking about when 313 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,400 it comes to these different types of sticky tapes. 314 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,680 It's just, I love them because they're very similar, except 315 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:32,320 they have a pattern on them. Instead of it being clear with a 316 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,520 double stick tape, it just has a little pattern on it. 317 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,840 So this one's like a house and this one is a book. 318 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,000 And for whatever reason, in my head, and I have literally 319 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,640 probably 8 to 10 of them now and they sit on my desk. 320 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,760 I rarely ever use them and they just I sit here and I think, oh, 321 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:50,440 like this is a little light bulb 1. 322 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,920 And I'm like, oh, you know, anytime I have a good idea, I'm 323 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,200 going to take this out and I'm going to put it into my 324 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,960 notebook. But the thing that I'm coming up 325 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:58,640 with more and more, and we talked about this in our 326 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:02,080 previous episode as well, is I'm just not the type of planner 327 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,920 that is actively planning adding things to my journal while I'm 328 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,640 writing inside of it. I am a person who sets up my 329 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,160 journal, uses my stationary and stickers and stuff like this and 330 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,160 like a setup, but I rarely will pick up a stamp or pick up one 331 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,600 of these Deco Rush tapes and add it to my journal as I'm doing 332 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,960 other things. I don't know why I'm like that. 333 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,720 I'm just not. And so I think for that reason, 334 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,240 it becomes really difficult for me to remember to use them. 335 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,440 I literally sit them right in front of my face as I'm working 336 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,160 with the intention to grab them and use them so I can be useful 337 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,000 about it. So I think it's more about the 338 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,120 lines that I bought too many of them thinking like, oh, I like 339 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,240 the way this little icon looks. I'm going to use that. 340 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,120 I should have just maybe bought one or two and just use them 341 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,880 until they were gone. But again, like I need boxes for 342 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,960 when I'm dealing with packages and I need a little coffee cup. 343 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,240 What I'm feeling like I want some coffee or write a little 344 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,640 coffee theme or, you know, a light bulb when I have an idea. 345 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,320 So I need all the different icons, but I just also don't 346 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,720 need this many Deco Rush tapes. I think that's a really good 347 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,920 point about like, you know, considering how you are as a 348 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,520 planner, how how your kind of like style is, I suppose, you 349 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,360 know, are you the kind of person who sets everything up at once? 350 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,280 You know, does all of the decorative elements and all of 351 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,600 that at the start of the week or start of the month or whatever. 352 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,880 And then for the rest of your time in those layouts, you're 353 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:23,760 just filling things in with your regular everyday pen, everyday 354 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,160 writing, that kind of stuff. Or are you the kind of person 355 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,800 who likes to do those little bits of decoration as you go, 356 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,280 because those kind of things are going to have some kind of sway 357 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,200 over which pieces of stationary you're more likely to use? 358 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,720 I think that's a cool consideration. 359 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,200 Yeah, it's the same thing with a lot of my stamps and stuff like 360 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:40,800 that. Like I have a large collection 361 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,120 of stamps, both wood block stamps and clear stamps. 362 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,160 I have the little letters, I have little icons. 363 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,360 I have it all. It's just to think about while 364 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,640 I'm planning and doing something, be like, oh, let me 365 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,200 grab this little tiny stamp. Oh, because I thought of XY or Z 366 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:55,520 and put it on the page to do that. 367 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,720 I feel that's more along the lines of like the traveler 368 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,880 notebook type individuals that use stuff like that or maybe use 369 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,840 it for memory keeping or kind of doing these daily log long form 370 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,520 type things. You know, like it's almost like 371 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,640 you're creating like a visual diary of your day. 372 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,280 I think that maybe if I did stuff like that with like 373 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,920 ephemera and stuff like that we were just talking about, maybe 374 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,640 it would make more sense. But right now it's just like I 375 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,880 have to remember to use it while I'm setting up my notebook or my 376 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,400 page or my weekly. Otherwise they are just they're 377 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,960 just sitting there. Talking about ephemera, I didn't 378 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,760 even write this on my list because I didn't think of it. 379 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:29,760 You know how hard it was to actually think of things. 380 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,760 I regret buying because I just. I'm usually quite mindful with 381 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,680 my purchases. I don't bring things into my 382 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,080 stash and my space unless I think I'm going to use them. 383 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,720 But we still have a list to go through. 384 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,600 But ephemera is definitely one that I like. 385 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,040 I feel like regret is too strong a word, but I just know it's 386 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,600 going to take me such a long time to use some of those pieces 387 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,720 up, especially when doing like my reading journal setups and 388 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,440 stuff. For like this year and last 389 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,840 year, I went with very kind of like brown, beige, neutral 390 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,600 tones. And I have accumulated a lot of 391 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,280 brown and beige and that is like pretty much the only space I use 392 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:02,920 it in. And for my reading journal next, 393 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,920 yeah, I'm no longer going with that kind of color palette or at 394 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,920 least not through the entire the journal like I have been. 395 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,560 So I'm not too sure when those things are going to get used up. 396 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,240 And it's always this kind of like worry that's like, oh, but 397 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,440 things are going to go off quote, quote off. 398 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,359 I'm not saying that they're like actually going to go mouldy or 399 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,560 anything like that, but it's more like, you know, tapes lose 400 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,040 their stick ability, stickers lose their stick ability or they 401 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,440 don't come off the backing paper nicely anymore. 402 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,880 Papers just start to get a little bit new, especially if 403 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,800 you're in a human environment like I am. 404 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,240 So use your stuff. You make a good point. 405 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,320 A lot of the stuff I have like that to have collected. 406 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,760 I'm a really big fan of Eric small things. 407 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:42,480 I think she's probably hands down one of my favorite creators 408 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,680 out there. And I have so much of her stuff. 409 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,480 I actually had to hold myself back from putting too much of 410 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,000 that in here because it would have looked like a hate fest. 411 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,920 When in fact, I love her and her designs so much because every 412 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:00,520 single time I see something of hers, I I just it's in my body 413 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:01,920 and brain. I have to get it. 414 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,800 Like I literally was just on cute things from Japan's website 415 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,960 the other day because she just released more stuff and I put it 416 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,160 all on my cart and I was like, do you really need this Mark? 417 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,120 Are you just like a fanatic about it? 418 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:15,920 But I do have the same thing. These little paper pull off 419 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,880 pieces. It's ephemera essentially. 420 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,600 And it's like little tiny note cards that I was like, Oh yeah, 421 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,760 like I'll use that. I'll paste that into my bullet 422 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,440 journal or whatever. But it's just so much because 423 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,640 again, I couldn't just buy the one pack. 424 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,320 There was two different colors with two different designs of 425 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,400 them, and I felt like I had to have it. 426 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,400 And so those sit inside of literally a box of ephemera that 427 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,160 I've organized for myself that I rarely ever go into. 428 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,200 So it's just I have to remind myself constantly just use it 429 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,160 more. But again, I have to think about 430 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,880 it as a fit kind of the theme I'm going for for that week or 431 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,880 honestly just something I've chosen and say like, OK, this is 432 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,360 what we're doing this week. So it gets a little difficult. 433 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,600 Yeah, it's kind of hard, like you want to follow kind of like 434 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,400 your current joy, the current vibes that you're going with. 435 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,320 Or is it like a, OK, I'm going to intentionally use my stash 436 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,320 and go and use these items that I collected at a different time 437 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,920 with a different vibe? I think that's also with Archer 438 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,920 and Olive for their Halloween collection stuff. 439 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,760 I do that every single year. I was like, I need this right 440 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,920 now in my life. Absolutely. 441 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:15,000 And then you get it and you're like, yeah. 442 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,280 And then Halloween's over. And unless you have a certain 443 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,840 type of notebook or a theme or something you're going with 444 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,840 that, you can still keep that kind of spooky Halloween kind of 445 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,640 dark vibe with a lot of that doesn't get used again. 446 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,280 And especially with the notebooks, I'm just like, oh, I 447 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,080 want that blood moon, that red blood moon notebook, right? 448 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,360 I have to have it. And I get it, I love it, but 449 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:36,160 like, when am I going to use that next? 450 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,040 You know, I'm just like, well, will that be my next bullet 451 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,800 journal? But I had all these other ones 452 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:41,440 lined up. But then it's going to feel 453 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,920 weird if it's like January and I'm pulling out a Blood Moon 454 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,640 notebook or stickers or something to work with their 455 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,520 washi tape. So it does get a little 456 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,320 difficult with that too, because you're just like in the moment 457 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,160 you need it or it's kind of your theme or your vibe, like you 458 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,800 said. But then it's a passing thing, 459 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,560 because now a new shiny thing is coming to my life. 460 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:03,920 Yeah, you just need to have like a full year of like Spooktacular 461 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:06,960 everything. Just do a running theme of like 462 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,480 every Halloween esque item I've ever had ever. 463 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,600 Because I think about that in terms of Christmas tapes, 464 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,640 because I do have a fair few Christmas tapes. 465 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,080 I also have a lot of Halloween tapes, but those ones don't seem 466 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:17,720 to bother me as much. I'm like, yeah, I could pull out 467 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,680 a Halloween tape in April and just be like vibes, why not? 468 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,560 But I don't really want to pull out anything with a Santa hat on 469 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,320 it. So what would be your next 470 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,520 purchasing regret? So it's the only thing that I 471 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,880 included that does have Eric Small Things on it. 472 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,000 So I think my biggest regret, I love it, but it's a regret is 473 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,840 the year day by day calendar from Eric Small Things. 474 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,160 It's a cute little one that sits on my desk. 475 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,240 I'm almost done with it. I don't know if you're on 476 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,360 YouTube, you can see it. You can actually see the staples 477 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,160 coming out from it now because we're so close. 478 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,960 But the problem with this is that I did use it. 479 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,720 So I'm not going to say that I cannot throw away all of them. 480 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:58,240 So I literally have an envelope filled with 11 months of each of 481 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,240 the individual pages because Jess, I'm going to cut them out 482 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,360 somehow. I'm going to punch them out 483 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:06,920 somehow and I will use these inside of my bullet journal. 484 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,960 I cannot throw them away. And therefore this is like a 485 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:15,920 regret because it has caused me to hoard even more stuff that I 486 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,440 may not even use again. It's like ephemera again. 487 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,480 I don't. I mean, I have ideas. 488 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,040 I've done a few spreads with them. 489 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,240 I've run them through my Sizzix little die cutter. 490 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:30,000 I've pasted them into my stuff. But like, do did I need this? 491 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:32,800 Especially when I have a calendar on my watch, on my 492 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,200 computer, in my bullet journal, You know what I'm saying? 493 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,480 So it's a regret just because it's caused more collection, not 494 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,400 because I don't absolutely love Eric Small Things. 495 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,400 No, I'm literally that way inclined as well. 496 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:45,920 Like, at least it's something cute. 497 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,000 At least it's like some kind of design element to it. 498 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,720 My current stash is just like every tiny off cut of paper from 499 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,000 anytime I make stickers for my journal because, you know, I 500 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,320 print out little book covers for my reading journal and whatever 501 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,280 and there's always a little bit of extra space leftover. 502 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,240 But because the paper cost money, I think the stick of 503 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,880 paper, I'm like, no, we must save every off cut of this stick 504 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,160 of paper. I'm like, why? 505 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,440 I don't make this many mistakes in my journal. 506 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,960 Like I make mistakes, but not this many, not, not this many 507 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,800 mistakes. I don't need quite as much. 508 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,400 So I have, I'm so proud of myself and it's taken me a lot 509 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,160 and I still kind of trip up sometimes, but I have started 510 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,280 putting them in the bin. Thank you, thank you. 511 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,640 Yes, crown it. I, I I deserve an award. 512 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,120 That's really, I mean, it's definitely hit that point. 513 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:32,400 I used to do it with like all the wrapping papers and little 514 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,760 like ribbons and stuff that I used to get from different 515 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,960 people that would send it. And I did get to the point where 516 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,040 the only thing I say is Eric Small Things. 517 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,600 Like I can't help it. Cute thing from Japan wraps all 518 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,320 of their stuff in Eric Small things wrapping paper. 519 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,520 And I'm such an obsessed fan that I can't throw away the 520 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,800 literal packaging tissue of a thing because it has on it. 521 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,600 Because I'm like, I'll use that for something. 522 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,040 I was literally the same. I got AI kind of remember. 523 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,720 It must have been like notebook therapy or something because I 524 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,360 don't know if it's them. So you know at me if I'm wrong, 525 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:06,760 but they wrapped their notebook in vellum instead of just 526 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,320 regular paper. So I kept that vellum piece for 527 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,440 the longest time. Finally throw it out. 528 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:13,680 But it's this kind of thing, right? 529 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,600 Like we keep these things because they're like, oh, I feel 530 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,960 guilty throwing them away or like it's cute and I want to use 531 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,520 it at some point or whatever and stuff. 532 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,480 If you actually got rid of it and it's not just cute, like if 533 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,320 one, if one actually got rid of it, you would feel a little bit 534 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,840 of regret maybe for the 1st 5 minutes like, oh, it was cute. 535 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,640 I totally could have figured something out for it. 536 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,560 But in five days time, you won't even remember. 537 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,480 And if you do, it won't feel as painful. 538 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:36,960 It's only painful in the here and now. 539 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,640 So like we can get rid of the things. 540 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,320 I think that the part that makes it really hard for me is when 541 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,680 you want to get rid of something or like you don't necessarily 542 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,800 want to get rid of it, but you feel like you should, but you 543 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,200 want to get rid of something that feels like it still has 544 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,040 very good value. It's like, oh, I paid a lot of 545 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,720 money for this. I could still sell it like it's 546 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,480 not used or anything like this. And oftentimes in those cases, I 547 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,760 make what's called my very fondly called my fuck it bucket. 548 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,920 And that effectively just gets all of the stationary items that 549 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,360 are either so lightly used that I wouldn't mind giving it to 550 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:09,120 somebody else or they're like not even touched at all. 551 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,520 And next time my friends come over, I go like, hey guys, do 552 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,040 you want anything from the stash? 553 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,360 Like you can have any of these tapes. 554 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,440 It's like going to the dentist office where you get to pick out 555 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,680 like a sticker or a toothbrush. When you're done, go to Jess's 556 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,960 house and you get to pick from her stationary box. 557 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,360 That actually sounds like a really good way to invite people 558 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:28,360 over. Yeah, especially because, you 559 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:31,120 know, with the amount of stuff that I get sent to like, you 560 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:34,200 know, look at or like review or anything like that, there are 561 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:35,920 some elements that just aren't for me. 562 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,880 And those ones I'm usually kind of OK with parting with getting 563 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,520 rid of them from my stash. But because they're still good 564 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,440 quality items, I'm not just gonna throw them in the bin or 565 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,400 anything like that. So the next time the friends 566 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,960 come over, I'm like, hey, do you guys want this cat washi tape? 567 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,240 Do you guys want these florals that don't really go with my 568 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,400 journal? Anything like that. 569 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,040 Usually I can get rid of a good portion of them just from my 570 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,400 friends. But if it doesn't, if it doesn't 571 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,920 vibe with them, then I literally just go onto like my Facebook 572 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,720 community group or whatever for our like local community and say 573 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,480 hey, does anybody have kids that like really want to get into 574 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,920 crafting? Because I've got like a bucket 575 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,200 load of stuff for them. There's a guy in my comments on 576 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,320 YouTube with one of the recent subscription boxes and we had 577 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,280 this really funny interaction where he said, you know, Archer 578 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,200 and Olive isn't necessarily always for me. 579 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,240 And I talk about this too. He's like, but the best thing 580 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,240 is, is that anytime I don't like it, I just take it to work. 581 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,480 And all of the people that I work with go crazy over the free 582 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,400 stationary. He's like, it makes me look like 583 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,960 a hero. I'm giving out all this free 584 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,640 stuff when really it's just the stuff that I didn't want it and 585 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,360 fit my vibe from the box that I got. 586 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:40,160 And I was like, I can so align with you on this because I do it 587 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,280 all of the time. I'll just come into work and be 588 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,920 like, who wants stickers and washi tapes? 589 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,760 And everyone's like, oh, this is so cool. 590 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,240 And they're like, Mark, why are all the markers only pink and 591 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,400 purple and like glitter? Like why don't you have any 592 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,120 their colors? I'm like oh because I will 593 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:57,440 actually use all the other colors because I don't really 594 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,480 use pink and purples, at least not on purpose inside of my 595 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:01,640 bullet journal. What? 596 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,320 Talking about Archer and olive, one of my regrets would probably 597 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,800 have to be the acrylographs. And that's not to say that 598 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,120 they're like a bad product or anything. 599 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,680 You know, people who like paint pens, probably fine. 600 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,280 I just found that the amount of maintenance required to keep 601 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,960 them nice enough to use actively was like too hard. 602 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,960 I didn't like having to, you know, shake them, prime them, 603 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:24,640 get the ink through them, clean off the nibs, anything like 604 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,040 that. I also don't like the dry time 605 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,200 because they just don't align with how I like to do my 606 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,400 planning and journaling. It's one of those things that 607 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,520 like, you know, making sure that we're buying supplies or 608 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,400 acquiring supplies that actually fit our style and those ones did 609 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,280 not fit my style. The biggest regret though is 610 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,560 because I am a completionist. It took me a really long time to 611 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,640 come to the decision of like, we are not collecting any more of 612 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,920 these. Like I had over 1000 U.S. 613 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,080 Dollars worth of acrylic telegraphs before I decided 614 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,920 like, no, it's enough. I feel you on that a lot. 615 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,440 Especially the very early ones. I remember when they first 616 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,680 started to come out, they were defective as all hell. 617 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,440 I remember pushing it down and just like blobs of the like the 618 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,640 ink or the paint really. It's not ink, but coming out on 619 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,280 my page and just looking at it and being like bullshit, you 620 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,400 know, like what do I even do with this? 621 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,040 I go back and forth with so often when I remember to open up 622 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,080 my drawers and I actually organized them recently by 623 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,920 labeling all of them so I can quickly find the colors that I 624 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,560 would actually use. And do I love using them because 625 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,200 I'm just like, Oh yeah, I forgot how much I really do like 626 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,800 writing with these and using these different colors and 627 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,480 layering them on top of each other. 628 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,280 But but it's rare that I do that for that same reason. 629 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,360 It's super fun to shake them up and then you're just like, Oh my 630 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:46,760 God, like I've been doing this for like 4 minutes now. 631 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,080 Is this stuff going to come out? But then it's the same thing. 632 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,760 That is the one item though when we talked about this and again, 633 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,080 no disrespect to Archer and all of it, all on this. 634 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,960 If that marker pen does not work or just as completely crap, I 635 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,040 just throw it right away. I don't even try to bring it 636 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,720 back to life or do anything. And I'm getting there with some 637 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,120 of the coleographs too, if I'm being honest with you, because 638 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:08,360 they, some of the older ones have been getting that little 639 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:12,360 crystallization stuff on it and just totally stops the pen from 640 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:13,880 working. And I've just been chalking them 641 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,280 because I'm just like, it's not worth it me doing like pen 642 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,360 surgery to try to bring this back to life. 643 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,400 It should just work. Exactly that, it should just 644 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,760 work. I've been finding that like with 645 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,160 certain pens, I will, you know, do the surgery as much as I can. 646 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,880 My Tombos are ones that I'm like, no, I will like store you 647 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,360 upside down. I will like try and flick the 648 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:35,920 ink to the bottom of the barrel, like anything like that, 649 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,960 preserve you for just a little bit longer. 650 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,600 But other pens, it's like a you you skipped slightly when I 651 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,800 tried to write something. It's communicado. 652 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,960 Goodbye, you're dead. Denzel, I feel you. 653 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,240 I think that one of the hard things with the acrylographs as 654 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,480 well is that along with just, you know, that kind of 655 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,240 completionist mentality and it's like, oh, got to get every set 656 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,800 kind of a thing, which when you live at the ass end, the world 657 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,120 does become very expensive. But because I had as many of 658 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,560 them as I had, I went through kind of like a few iterations of 659 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,280 trying to store them because, you know, you had to store them 660 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,320 horizontally so that you didn't get that separation. 661 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,760 And then, you know, that 4 minute of shake turns into 40 662 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,360 minutes of shake or like whatever. 663 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,960 But I found that to store them initially, I went and bought a 664 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,560 set of Muji drawers, those little acrylic ones, which are 665 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,040 also a purchasing regret because now, as I don't have 666 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,560 acrylographs anymore, they're too shallow to store legit 667 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,600 anything else I own. So I've still got them because 668 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,000 they were expensive. Like, you know, purchasing them 669 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,120 because we don't have a Muji store and then shipping them, 670 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,600 quite a pricey item. I mean, in terms of acrylic 671 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,200 drawers, quite pricey, but now I don't have anything to actually 672 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,920 put in them, but I feel guilty giving them away. 673 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,120 So like, I've tried to pull the drawers out and use the drawers 674 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,920 upside down as like kind of no shelf organizers and stuff like 675 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,480 that. But then they're too deep for 676 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,040 that. But then they're too shallow to 677 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,240 store any pins appropriately. Yeah. 678 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,200 Well, my next item is something that again love where I bought 679 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,400 it from love the idea, never use it. 680 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,640 So this is a cool little suitcase and inside of this cool 681 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,320 little suitcase are little tiny ink samples. 682 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,480 They're numbered. There's a little itty bitty 683 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,520 glass eyedropper inside of here. I got this from my buddy Eric 684 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,920 over at Amarillo stationary. It is beautiful inks. 685 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:27,920 They are teeny tiny and I will never travel with this little 686 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,640 thing anywhere. Not because I'm afraid it just 687 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,040 doesn't make sense. Like, Can you imagine me going 688 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,160 to work and being like, hold on guys And I pull out my little 689 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,800 ink Swatch and like fill up a pen while I'm there? 690 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,440 They'd be like, what is you? Who the hell are you? 691 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,400 It looks so pretentious. I'd love it so much. 692 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,560 Like excuse me just a second, just now. 693 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,040 Just just now. So this is turned into one of 694 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,760 those desk trophy type things right where it sits on my desk. 695 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,960 I love that it, it looks really cool. 696 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,680 That's the that's my problem with a lot of stuff is it looks 697 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,320 really cool. I think it's neat. 698 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,240 I love the idea, but like at this point right now, like I 699 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,520 just need to just use this ink that's inside of here so I can 700 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,480 feel like I really got my money's worth. 701 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,200 And that way it can just be out on the table. 702 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,200 And it's not like there's just lost ink sitting inside of here. 703 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,880 So it's a regret to a certain extent. 704 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,680 Again, from a collector's item standpoint, I love it. 705 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,320 I think it's awesome. But from a usefulness like 706 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,320 actually ever going to probably use use this in a real world 707 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,800 scenario? No, I think that's the hard 708 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,600 thing with the little bottles of ink as well. 709 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,120 Because obviously when you gave me my fountain pen, you also 710 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,440 gave me some ink. Very, very appreciative of that. 711 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,880 But I don't have ink storage, so they're just sitting like little 712 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,560 vials in an upturned lid from an Archer and Olive box. 713 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,840 Just kind of like sitting there like by themselves. 714 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,040 Just so now that's the other thing too. 715 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,400 I was actually going to put ink samples on my list. 716 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,600 I I love how like simpatico we're becoming now with the way 717 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,160 that we're thinking. It's hilarious. 718 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,320 I let me grab it real quick to show you because again, more, 719 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,920 more desk trophy things. So someone told me to buy it's a 720 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,160 shotgun shell casing, right? And it fits sample bottles in it 721 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,280 very nicely. So I've been storing them in 722 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,920 here now too because I'm running out of sample space because I 723 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,160 actually have a sample holder that I actually bought from my 724 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,720 Goulet pens that perfectly fits them in there. 725 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,720 It's like a little science tray essentially. 726 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,880 So I have that. I also just bought another one 727 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,560 recently when I was at a pen show and then this was my most 728 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,160 recent purchase to start filling up. 729 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:30,960 But I thought, well that's kind of cool. 730 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,480 Then I have about 6 of them sitting over here because I just 731 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,480 did some stuff with Ferris Wheel Press recently. 732 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,960 And again, I will use them. I'm getting to the point now 733 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,800 where they actually really work well for like the Tom Studio 734 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,840 pens or Ferris Wheel Press has a similar thing with like the 735 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,160 reusable fine liners and brush pens where you stick the little 736 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,960 reservoir in the ink and it sucks it up. 737 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,960 This works out great for that because you can easily just 738 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,080 stick it in there and it sucks the ink up and you're like, OK, 739 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,960 this sample is done next figure those things out. 740 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,320 But otherwise you are just storing them. 741 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,960 And I have this thing where and we've talked about I can't wait 742 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,080 to finally use a bunch of ink, but I'm terrified and actually 743 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,560 finishing a bottle of ink because I'm like, what if I 744 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,920 can't get it again? So I have this like weird, full 745 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,920 of like, yes, use the rest of this ink in this stupid little 746 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,960 ink vial to don't use it because you don't know if you'll get it 747 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,960 again. No, it's hard like that because 748 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,200 I I find that for other suppliers, calliographs would be 749 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,680 one of them. Like not to say that I don't use 750 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,520 my calliographs because I'm worried they're going to run 751 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,440 out, but I do worry that they will run out because you can't 752 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,880 get them again. Like they don't re release 753 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,840 collections unless there's like no one would bring back the 754 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,600 favorites or something. But I don't think they bought 755 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,840 back calliographs with Bring Back the Favorites, at least not 756 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,360 this year. But that would be one of them. 757 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,880 Also, like washi tapes from the washi tape shop, once they're 758 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,160 out of season, they very seldom come back. 759 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,440 And then you have the problem of like, you use them in the video 760 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:50,920 and everyone's like, Oh my God, that's beautiful. 761 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:52,600 Where did you get it? You're like, I'm sorry, it's 762 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,480 been sold off for many moons, but. 763 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,800 No, I actually completely agree with you on that too. 764 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,360 I think so often when we're using those and we talked about 765 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,080 that before, it's so terrible to be like, sorry, this is a six 766 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,160 year old washi tape that I just found in the bottom of my 767 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,000 drawer. That's why I'm using it again. 768 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,400 You can't get it anymore. Just like, oh crap, I think we 769 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,239 should start treating it like vintage clothing. 770 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,560 You know, like you go and you buy your like, this is vintage 771 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,159 Ferris Wheel Press from two years ago because they don't 772 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:21,800 make the color anymore. Yeah, I think it would be very 773 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,159 impressive to use an entire bottle of ink, though, because 774 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,400 what, I filled up my fountain pen once, and admittedly, I 775 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,920 don't use it as much as other people use theirs, but I filled 776 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,440 it up once. I only filled it up like a 777 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,920 centimeter of the way because I was just like, OK, come on, we 778 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,880 don't want to fill the entire thing or anything like that. 779 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:39,719 And that one has still lost me many many moons. 780 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,360 Probably last me many moons to come. 781 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,080 We got to get you to clean that thing out and just put some 782 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,840 black ink in it. I think that's going to be the 783 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,520 thing that'll force you just to use, not force you, but make you 784 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,000 want to use it more If it has a color in it that you'll actually 785 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,080 use a lot. I do that a lot with mine where 786 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:55,639 I'll fill them with like a cool color or whatever, but like my 787 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:58,480 go to will just be like, oh, here's a fountain pen with black 788 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,240 ink in it. That makes the most sense. 789 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:03,240 It happens all the time. I always have at least a pen on 790 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:05,640 my desk filled with black ink and then I'll have another one 791 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,000 with like a fun color in it. Always go for the black ink 792 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,240 first. So I think we should do that. 793 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:11,880 Maybe we should do like hand over hand virtually on how to 794 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,480 clean out Iris, how to care for her, tend for her and then how 795 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,640 to fill her with a new just regular black ink. 796 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,680 I think you'll you'll be better. Yeah, I know that because the 797 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,520 black ink that you gave me, people saying like, oh, it's 798 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:23,640 going to stain the inside of the pen. 799 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,120 I'm like, no, Iris, don't do it. You have so much to live for. 800 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,600 That's what's actually the same Black egg is inside of here. 801 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,720 It looks like it's stained. Once I clean this out, it'll 802 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:35,760 just come out. It's honestly, it's people get a 803 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,760 little too uptight about stuff like that. 804 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,360 It's also just a pen and you can always buy another one or I can 805 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,600 buy you another one, Jess, if you really need me to. 806 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,000 Do not hold back from filling that up. 807 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,360 You will be OK. Well, Iris is not a regret. 808 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,240 She does not deserve to be on this list. 809 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:54,080 But what would be your next purchasing regret? 810 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:59,840 All right, so Speaking of black items, I have so many blackout 811 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:04,560 sticky notes because I thought, Mark, you're going to use these 812 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,080 blackout sticky notes all the time. 813 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,800 Look how cool they are. Look how many gel pens you have, 814 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,720 acrylic wraps that you have that you could write on them with. 815 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:17,080 It is such a pain in the ass to take out anything extra just to 816 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,200 make it work on black sticky notes. 817 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,640 I feel the same way about blackout paper. 818 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,440 I know there's a world out there you can at me and tell me I'm 819 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,200 wrong, but honestly blackout paper is fun paper. 820 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,240 It is not for me a daily newspaper. 821 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:35,400 So the fact of like buying these blackouts to use them inside of 822 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,720 my journal or anywhere in my general space requires me to 823 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,680 also have a pen that will work appropriately on these. 824 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,080 And we all I know it's impossible to find like a good 825 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,080 white gel pen. And even if I do, I don't use it 826 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,280 that much. So it like goes someplace where 827 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,000 it takes me too long to find it and I'm like, screw it, grab a 828 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,200 yellow 1. So I have a whole bunch of these 829 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,760 just sitting around. Maybe one day it will not be 830 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,560 today nor tomorrow. Yeah, I mainly use them as kind 831 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,320 of like embellishments or just like decoration rather than 832 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,640 actually writing on them because I'm very much the same. 833 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,040 If I have to write over the top of black paper, it's usually 834 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,000 like a gel pen or a paint pen or whatever, and then there's dry 835 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,600 time and I couldn't be bothered. I have other things to do with 836 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,400 my time that it looks really cool. 837 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,440 It looks absolutely amazing, but I just, I don't have the 838 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,640 inclination to wait around for it to dry. 839 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,200 And even then once it is fully dry, you know, left it for three 840 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,840 to seven business days or whatever. 841 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,760 As soon as I close that notebook, it transfers to the 842 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,440 other side. So I'm like, cool, now I've got 843 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,640 reverse ghosting or something like that. 844 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,800 Well, the one thing I don't regret are the transparent 845 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,640 sticky notes. I'll be use them all day long. 846 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,440 I think they're the coolest damn things out there on the market. 847 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,480 But yeah, the blackout ones, I'm not here for non transparency. 848 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,400 All right, Jess, what's your next regret? 849 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,760 This one's tricky because I know that there is use with the item 850 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,520 and I have used it before. It's just that I don't really 851 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,840 use it anymore. And that would be any kind of 852 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,280 like thermal printer that only prints in black and white. 853 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,520 Because oftentimes if I want to print something in black and 854 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,200 white, like I'll just use my regular printer. 855 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,480 I don't I don't need a travel printer and these thermal 856 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,120 printers are usually kind of travel size. 857 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,320 They do print on sticker paper, which is kind of nice. 858 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,640 You can just stick it into your journal. 859 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,040 But now that I have the the required skills to be able to 860 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,240 print on the larger sheets of sticker paper on my home printer 861 00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:21,720 and get a usually a better quality of print and also the 862 00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:24,560 ability to print in color, I just do not use the thermal 863 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,880 printer anymore. So for some people like, you 864 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,080 know, if you don't have an at home printer or if you're on the 865 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,280 go or whatever, then they can be quite useful. 866 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,360 But because they are also thermal, then they run the risk 867 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,000 of like, I know your journal gets overheated and now your 868 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,840 image is kind of warped or anything like that. 869 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,680 I never really found that to be an issue. 870 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,640 Then again, I don't usually leave my journal in the oven, so 871 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:45,600 it's usually fine. It's funny that you mentioned 872 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:46,640 that. That's how people talk about 873 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,000 those friction pens. I don't come frictions with the 874 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,640 friction ones. People like these are so great 875 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,320 because they erase, but then people use them in like 876 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,320 different types of journals and they're like, oh, I left my 877 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,800 journal in the car and it got too hot and my writing went away 878 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,320 and I had to stick my journal inside of the freezer to try to 879 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,240 get it back. And I was like, that's not worth 880 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:04,720 it to me. I don't care. 881 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,480 But then at the same time, I feel like it is a very off rare 882 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,960 thing that it ever would get that hot or you would leave your 883 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,440 journal in the car where that would happen. 884 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,280 But I just always, always think about that scenario where I was 885 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,120 just like, no, like Rocket book, because the whole idea there is 886 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,400 that you use them and then you take a picture of them with the 887 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,760 app and then you erase it and there's only like a handful of 888 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,160 pages inside of there. That's where I hear it the most 889 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,200 that people use the Rocket Books and then they do the same thing 890 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,640 and they they stick it in the freezer. 891 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,320 Jess like that seems silly to put a book in a freezer because 892 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,480 you accidentally lost your writing. 893 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,320 So not worth it for me. I don't need to erase my pens 894 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:38,960 that badly. I. 895 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,240 Don't know, putting it in the freezer just reminds me those 896 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,520 people who, like, try and freeze their credit cards in ice, which 897 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,480 I mean, like with the rise of online shopping, probably 898 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,160 doesn't really work as much anymore. 899 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,680 But not at all. Yeah, I think that the thermal 900 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,520 printer, that would probably be one, like, I just, I know that 901 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,920 you can get your different types of paper that it can stick on so 902 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,560 you can do different colors and everything like that, but I just 903 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,320 don't get as much use out of mine anymore. 904 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:01,720 I'm probably going to give mine away. 905 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,160 I've always wanted one to be honest with you because I see so 906 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,400 many do them, but I know that those thermal printer companies 907 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,440 also reach out to a lot of creators too to try to get them 908 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,080 to do it. And if you have reached out to 909 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,560 me, it's just that the the offer is just not something that I'm 910 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,040 interested in or they're asking for like ridiculous amount of 911 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,440 deliverables for nothing essentially for like a $50 912 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,240 printer. I was like, if I really wanted 913 00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:25,000 you that bad, I would just buy it myself. 914 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,680 So that's one of those things where like I could have had one 915 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,240 just not selling myself to the thermal paper devil to to get 916 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:32,960 it. Yeah, it is a bit like that. 917 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,560 I like if I wanted it enough, I'd get it myself. 918 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,920 That's I say that to myself. But it was like, would you 919 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,080 though? Because there are plenty of 920 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,120 things that you want enough, but you just don't buy them. 921 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,560 And I don't know if it's because I'm like, oh, well, eventually, 922 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,600 maybe at some point the opportunity will come along to 923 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,920 work with people who have that item and then I don't have to 924 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,040 buy it for myself. Like we had that happen with my 925 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,480 cricket. Vogel bought me a cricket for my 926 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,680 birthday and it sat in a box unused for like 2 1/2 years. 927 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,640 And then the people at cricket reached out and said, hey, can 928 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,720 we send you a cricket? I'm like, sure. 929 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:08,040 Vocal was not very impressed. So now you have two crickets. 930 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,680 No, I ended up selling the one that he got me because it was 931 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,480 like the the model down because it had been like 2 and a half 932 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,200 years at that point and just got like the disapproving like. 933 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,680 You're like, but technically we saved money. 934 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,640 Yeah, I was like, we made it back. 935 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,120 Kind of like, yeah, not not a great consolation prize. 936 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,000 I did feel a little guilty about that, but I have at least used 937 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,720 this cricket four times, which I think counts. 938 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,360 Well worth it. Well worth it. 939 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,680 Yeah, that's great. Let's not do the math on how 940 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,680 much that is per cut. All righty Mark, what would be 941 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,200 your next regrettable purchase? The only fountain pen that I 942 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,720 have ever regretted buying is this right Trek 1 and This is 943 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:49,600 why I saw all of my favorite pen friends talking about this. 944 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,680 It's a very inexpensive retractable pen and the reason I 945 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,640 regret it. And if you're on YouTube, you'll 946 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,040 see this. If not, I will describe it. 947 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,320 When you push it up, there's a the drawer essentially that that 948 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:07,320 allows the nib to come out is on the right side of the pen. 949 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,160 I am a left-handed person. It literally blocks me from 950 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:16,240 seeing what I'm writing as I'm writing it because it's it's 951 00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:18,480 that big. So I have other retractable 952 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,000 pens. But The thing is, is that that 953 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,600 little door that opens up to release and kind of seal it in 954 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,040 is on the inside of the pen. So you never ever see that 955 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,880 thing. You only see the nib coming out. 956 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,320 So this is the regret because while it wasn't expensive, it is 957 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,160 just I don't use it honestly because I can't see what I'm I'm 958 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,000 writing. I have to literally like lay on 959 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,000 top of my notebook to like peek on the other side to make sure 960 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,640 I'm actually writing what I'm writing. 961 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,440 So it is one of those things. It's here, it's inexpensive, it 962 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,120 does sit on my desk. It's something to grab sometimes 963 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,560 if I need to, but I usually don't go for this because it 964 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,800 literally impedes me from seeing what I'm writing. 965 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,280 The other really funny thing about this, and it's more about 966 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,000 now the comedy of it, when I bought this pen, it literally 967 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,040 says retractable fountain pen and warning, do not put your 968 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,720 finger on the nib cover to prevent stabbing. 969 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,640 It's on the pen. It was on the outside of the 970 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,240 packaging, on the inside of the packaging, and on every single 971 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:17,720 ink cartridge that came as well. It's basically a death tool that 972 00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:20,880 they have to warn you against. And I am a firm believer in this 973 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,440 and I know this. I used to work for a power tool 974 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,560 company. You only have to add some of 975 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,360 those warnings if someone has injured themselves. 976 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,080 So the fact that they had to put this over top of every article 977 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,120 of this pen makes me feel like that happened a lot. 978 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,840 I do love how many warnings there must have been like to 979 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,680 actually how many issues or incidents have happened like 0 980 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,240 days without incident. New label on pen like Oh dear. 981 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,600 How much ink poisoning do we provide this year? 982 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,920 How many people wrote us back and left the Amazon review? 983 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,840 One star. I mixed my ink and blood because 984 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,120 of this pen, you know? My fingers are now green and 985 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,760 it's all your pens fault. All right, Jess, what's your 986 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,080 next regret? So this one, like I, I don't 987 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,440 even know why I got it because it's not like I was going to use 988 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,400 it anyways. I think it was, again, it's the 989 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,320 marketing. That's how they get you and 990 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,480 everybody on the on the interwebs, on the on the 991 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,760 Youtubes and the Instagrams was using it. 992 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,680 I'm like, oh, it looks so cool. I must have one. 993 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,480 Why? I don't paint, but it was a 994 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,240 paintbrush cleaner. Very cool. 995 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,120 Used it once, got rid of it. I want one wait is it the one 996 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:27,080 that has the reservoir on it and the whole I want 1 so bad for no 997 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,280 reason at all Don't. Get it? 998 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,120 It's so unnecessary. It's a cool concept. 999 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,200 If you're the kind of person who paints a lot, then like maybe. 1000 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,840 But effectively what it is, is that we have an upside down 1001 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,840 reservoir of water which then attaches to a little channel 1002 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,240 which has a little pool at the end. 1003 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,440 And the little pool has a plastic stopper that you can 1004 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,520 press a button and then that stopper pulls down and the ink 1005 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,200 or like paint water or whatever, kind of like drains through. 1006 00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,280 That's the general gist of it. The issue that I found is one 1007 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,400 all of that water just gets stored in the bottom, so you 1008 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,520 have to go and empty it and a kind of like regular interval, 1009 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,600 otherwise it'll get really bloody manky too because of the 1010 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,800 rubber stopper at the bottom of the little pool. 1011 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,880 That doesn't really clean very well unless you're quite 1012 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,040 aggressive with your brushes because it only gives you a very 1013 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,480 small portion of water. If you have paint filled 1014 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,200 paintbrush, then you're gonna have to flush it quite a few 1015 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,440 times to get all of that paint out of there. 1016 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,000 But while you're doing that, you're literally just painting 1017 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,640 onto the little rubber stopper. So the little rubber stopper 1018 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,320 gets kind of manky quite quickly unless you're, you know, pre 1019 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,320 cleaning your brush before you use the paintbrush cleaner, 1020 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,640 which feels like it kind of defeats the point. 1021 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,240 But the biggest issue is that I don't paint like I don't I never 1022 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:42,120 use paint. I don't like things that make my 1023 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,360 take too long in my journal. If I do paint, it's usually just 1024 00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,760 gold watercolors and it's very fine touches. 1025 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,200 So I don't even need to clean up my paintbrush because I'm not 1026 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,880 changing colours. So why I thought this was 1027 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,960 necessary to have in my mustache, but I had it for at 1028 00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,200 least a week before I got rid of it. 1029 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,360 Just it's so funny you say this item because I literally almost 1030 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,320 bought one last week because I've seen them for so long in so 1031 00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,600 many ads. And I was like, Mark, you know 1032 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,160 that this would be great when you're doing your ink swatches 1033 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,880 and you could just like easily clean that off and not have to 1034 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,600 change the water so often in the little glass containers that I 1035 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,360 use. But then I like started getting 1036 00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,960 in real deep and I started actually doing research and like 1037 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,720 how much water does it hold and how much space is actually in 1038 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:26,640 that little, little thing? And I was like, it doesn't 1039 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:31,200 actually make sense because it's so shallow of water that my 1040 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,320 Swatch items that I use for my ink wouldn't actually fit in 1041 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,920 there to rinse off. So I actually talked myself out 1042 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,760 of it, but I almost instant bought it because I was like, 1043 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,280 it's time mark. It's super inexpensive, like 1044 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,200 you'll totally use it. So I'm glad to hear that I 1045 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,040 didn't because what you just said because that essentially 1046 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,000 would be it. And also I probably would have 1047 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,080 been like pressing the little button down would've been 1048 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,040 flushing itself constantly and just I don't know, but it does 1049 00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,360 does look really cool. Yeah, I think the hard part also 1050 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,800 is that it comes in parts, so you have to like simple it 1051 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,560 yourself. I'm like, this is an IKEA. 1052 00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:05,960 I didn't sign up for this. And it's like these tiny, tiny 1053 00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,080 screws because to, you know, press the button down to release 1054 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,800 the little plastic pad thing or whatever it is on a little 1055 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,760 spring system. So you kind of screw it into 1056 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,280 itself with a little spring. So when you push it down, it 1057 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:18,560 actually kind of like comes away. 1058 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,680 It's a cool concept. And I think that if you painted 1059 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,480 with very small paint brushes with very minimal amounts of 1060 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,600 paint and it was really kind of just watercolor based on 1061 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,520 whatever, like maybe, but at the same time, I feel like a jar of 1062 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:35,080 water is going to be sufficient. Yeah, it's probably better in 1063 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,520 the long run, but it is cool to have a little flushable 1064 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,560 mechanism though in theory. I'm thinking like could you just 1065 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,480 make your own one at home like with a little like hamster like 1066 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,720 water bottle feeder or something like that? 1067 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,960 Yeah, I you could probably get one of the like the little dog 1068 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,360 bowls that like rinses itself out and like refreshes itself 1069 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:53,800 often. I'm sure that would do the same 1070 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,880 exact thing. But then again, you have some 1071 00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,960 little like dog water bowl on your desk that you're like, 1072 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,400 well, when am I going to fill this up? 1073 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,400 And could I have just filled the container that the water was in 1074 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,360 instead of this whole thing and spilling it? 1075 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,400 It's probably just a disaster waiting to happen around here. 1076 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,440 I feel like, yeah, you just need like a three jar system or 1077 00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:12,960 something. You've got like the first rinse, 1078 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,120 the second rinse, the third, and then it just kind of like goes 1079 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:16,680 through each of those or something. 1080 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:18,160 I actually have a three jar system. 1081 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,800 When I clean out my fountain pen just I have the one that does 1082 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,320 all the ink that I'm squirting out of the pen goes into. 1083 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,480 And then I have my middle one which where I suck the ink up 1084 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,520 out of and then spit it into the first jar. 1085 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,480 And that one gets a little dirty just because the ink is flowing. 1086 00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,360 And then once it's clean, then I use my third jar for the 1087 00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:38,600 cleaning water and then it gets sat to dry. 1088 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,280 So there is a process to that. Now why I don't mind doing that 1089 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,000 instead of those other things, I don't know. 1090 00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:45,400 It's good to work with the tidy pen. 1091 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,440 It is. It's absolutely important to do 1092 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:48,680 that. What would be another one of 1093 00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,560 your regrets Spark? All right, so I went through 1094 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:55,200 this phase, Jess, where I felt like every pen that I had had to 1095 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,200 be sitting on the holder. And so I actually did like a 1096 00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,880 whole research project and I found a bunch and the ones that 1097 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:06,400 I couldn't send back were these cute little crabs and they do 1098 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,240 hold. They are adorable and they are 1099 00:49:09,240 --> 00:49:12,640 so cool. I never put pens on these and 1100 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,080 these again have become a behind me shelf. 1101 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,400 I don't because I cannot for the life of me throw them away. 1102 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,640 So I should just use them more. But the problem is, is like I 1103 00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,680 have like really nice holders instead with like velvet on the 1104 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,400 inside and things like that. So when I'm like, do you sit 1105 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,800 your pen inside of a nice velvety thing or put it on a 1106 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,440 plastic crab? I always shoot for the nicer 1107 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:34,920 thing because I spent more money on it. 1108 00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,760 Again, it's a silly little thing and they, you know, maybe cost 1109 00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,400 like 5 bucks for two of them. But look at those. 1110 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,520 You can't throw away a little crab pen holder. 1111 00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,200 Jess, look how cute they. Are no One of my favorite memes 1112 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:46,880 is mess with the crab. Oh, you get the stab. 1113 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,400 Oh, and it's a crab holding a knife. 1114 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,160 So I'm like, you need to keep the crabs. 1115 00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:52,600 Yeah, I'll start putting knives on them instead. 1116 00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:55,040 Maybe that'll just do it more than the pens. 1117 00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:55,720 I don't know. They're not. 1118 00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:59,480 They're also not very sturdy and like the little stabby claws 1119 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,680 also are not very thin. They need like a very little 1120 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:03,520 pen. Like I'd have to put like my 1121 00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,280 little tiny, like Lily Put, which is the smallest pen ever 1122 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:08,520 in the world. Like that would work. 1123 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,000 There we go. I found a new holder for my Lily 1124 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:12,840 put. Perfection. 1125 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,320 Beautiful all. Right, Jess, what do you got? 1126 00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,240 So another one that I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that it's not 1127 00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:22,280 necessarily a regret yet, but it might be if I don't put the 1128 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,360 time, effort and energy into practice using it. 1129 00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,680 And that would be the gyro cutter. 1130 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,720 It's effectively a craft knife where the head of the craft 1131 00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:33,360 knife spins so that you can kind of, you know, cut squiggles and 1132 00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,720 circles and cut around things. It's supposed to be good for 1133 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:39,080 fussy cutting, but the blade is not. 1134 00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,520 It's not to say the blade isn't sharp like if I took my finger 1135 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,600 to so it'd probably be an Ouch. I'm not going to try it. 1136 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:47,080 But anyway, it's just compared to my regular craft knife, which 1137 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,800 has a very thin, very fine blade. 1138 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,840 It doesn't doesn't have anything close to that. 1139 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,960 And it's probably so that it actually does spin around and 1140 00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,320 you know, you can do those kind of motions and whatnot. 1141 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,920 But I would like it to not not to say I would like it to work 1142 00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,480 better. I would like to be better able 1143 00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,560 to use it so that I can do kind of like fussy cutting around pet 1144 00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,400 tapes and stuff. Because a lot of the PET florals 1145 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,280 that I have from like the Washi tape shop and stuff, they are 1146 00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,760 individual florals that I have to go and fussy cut myself and 1147 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,240 it would be nice to not have to do that. 1148 00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,480 So it sounds like user error is the reason you regret it. 1149 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,320 Yeah, I don't have the skills. It's like when you buy a tool, 1150 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,160 thinking like this is going to change the game for me. 1151 00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,440 This is going to be the thing that turns me into an artist. 1152 00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,560 And then you get it. You're like, Oh no, I'm just the 1153 00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,520 same person with the same level of skills with a fancy tool. 1154 00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:35,560 It's like your water brush cleaner, right? 1155 00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:38,200 Literally, yeah. It's like aspirational purchases 1156 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,480 like this will be the thing that turns me into a painter. 1157 00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,680 I'm like, no, this turns you into a person who doesn't paint, 1158 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:48,520 who has a tool for painters. I see those gyro cutters. 1159 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,440 They do look very cool. And as much as I love collecting 1160 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,440 tools, that is the one thing where I just think to myself, 1161 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:55,640 you're not going to use it, Mark. 1162 00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,320 Like I am petrified to cut pages out of my journal. 1163 00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:02,080 I have done it maybe twice in my entire life and I've regretted 1164 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,160 it both of those times. So I don't think fussy cutting, 1165 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,920 which I've never heard of ever before in the entire world. 1166 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,120 I feel like that's just that Jesse ISM again. 1167 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:10,840 Oh, it's. Not that one. 1168 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,640 That one's not, I can't take credit for that. 1169 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,680 That's that is a planet thing. It's just, I don't think you'd 1170 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,560 do it, but it's effectively just like going and cutting very 1171 00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:21,760 close and around an item that is usually kind of a weird shape. 1172 00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,560 I feel like that would be like a derogatory term you would call 1173 00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,960 somebody like you fussy gutter. You're a fussy gutter. 1174 00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:33,080 That is actually probably that's what I will call some people who 1175 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,040 are like very like uppity about their journals and stuff like 1176 00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,560 that. Like you're such a fussy gutter. 1177 00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,800 That's fine, you can sit at my table because I am that person. 1178 00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,880 All right, Jess. Well, my last thing I have on my 1179 00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:48,360 list, this is gonna cause maybe a little concern, and I'm sure 1180 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,760 plenty of people will reach out to me on this. 1181 00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:56,680 I regret buying as many A5 notebooks from Archer and Olive 1182 00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,840 as I have. And I know people, they might 1183 00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:03,040 there might have audibly gasped when I say this, but the reason 1184 00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,240 is that maybe there's people that have more. 1185 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:10,120 I have 60 unused A5 bullet journals right now just from 1186 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,040 Archer and Olive. That doesn't actually count the 1187 00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,080 other brands. So it might be a handful more 1188 00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:18,080 that's just from Archer and Olive that I will likely not 1189 00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:22,080 use, period. But, and this is where people 1190 00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,800 start to reach out and say Mark, but you can send those books to 1191 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:25,920 me. I'll use them. 1192 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:30,920 I can't because they have vintage designs on them from 1193 00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:35,440 Archer and Olive that will never be released ever again, and if 1194 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,000 for whatever reason I'm in the mood to use it, I won't be able 1195 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,400 to. Therefore I also can't get rid 1196 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:45,320 of them. Oh, I mean, my stash is a little 1197 00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,480 bigger than yours. I mean, mine's including any 1198 00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,160 notebook. So like we have like Bullet 1199 00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:56,360 journal and what maybe one other Lt. 1917 and a couple from Kumar 1200 00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,280 stationary and Crafts and like all these other places. 1201 00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:03,200 But my current unused A5 total is 108. 1202 00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:07,520 But I do use my A fives, so I'm not like too sad about it. 1203 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,520 Like I know that they're going to get used as like R&D 1204 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,840 notebooks or everyday journals or anything like that. 1205 00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,440 So it doesn't really worry me. But you don't really use A fives 1206 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,480 very often. Not often, every now and again 1207 00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,720 I'll say like oh I'm going to go back to a smaller size. 1208 00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,520 I've been working in B fives or squares for as long as I have. 1209 00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:27,000 But I think that I've been come just a bigger notebook person. 1210 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,040 But it also is very lifestyle driven to being a remote worker. 1211 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:34,240 Now I have the basically unlimited space for AB5 live or 1212 00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:37,240 a square notebook could be open in my space at all times versus 1213 00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:40,400 when I was commuting and I was at like a shared desk space or 1214 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,280 in meetings with, you know, 15 other people around you in this 1215 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,680 much arm room, I could only fit kind of an A5 inside of my 1216 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,640 space. So it's very much like time and 1217 00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,240 place. So who knows, maybe something 1218 00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:52,840 will change in the future, hopefully not where I have to go 1219 00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,640 back into the office more than once a month. 1220 00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,480 But if that happens, maybe I would go back to something like 1221 00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,080 that, but it would be really difficult for me, I feel like to 1222 00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,320 do that. But I agree with you. 1223 00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,280 Maybe it's just I have to let go of the fact of that, like I 1224 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,960 won't be able to necessarily maybe use them for a bullet 1225 00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:08,840 journal. I might change my mind, but 1226 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,040 maybe use them for R&D journals because I do like to get kind of 1227 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,280 stuff out in that spaces. So I might eventually. 1228 00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:18,200 But then that's the problem is I will sometimes buy journals to 1229 00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,360 be research and development journals so that I'm just kind 1230 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,600 of offsetting myself further and further back from when I'm 1231 00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,840 actually going to use them. No, that's fair. 1232 00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,160 I do wish that earlier in my kind of journaling journey I had 1233 00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:36,240 tried other sizes because I am very much an A5 inclined person. 1234 00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:39,000 I prefer working in an A5 for the most part. 1235 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,280 I do love the square. It's like kind of like if this 1236 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,840 is my A5 love, then my square love is like just underneath it 1237 00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:46,440 and then B5 is like way at the bottom. 1238 00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,720 Goodbye, no. But the problem is just I guess 1239 00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:52,280 when we started bullet drilling, which was right around the same 1240 00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:55,960 time, I don't know that there were many square notebooks out 1241 00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:57,360 there. I think honestly, the only one 1242 00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,880 that I ever maybe remember seeing was from Ferris Wheel 1243 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:04,640 Press and those were way out of my price range early on. 1244 00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,720 And I don't know that I would have necessarily liked it. 1245 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,600 I'm not sure. I haven't ever used a Ferris 1246 00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:11,400 Wheel Press notebook. I've only used their inks and 1247 00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:13,680 pens, but that was the only thing that I saw. 1248 00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:17,000 But it was when I was on the Archer and Olive design team at 1249 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:18,680 the time. Now considered the the 1250 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,160 ambassador team is when they started to roll those out. 1251 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,000 And I will never forget my first one. 1252 00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,960 It was my it was, it was that moment, you know, that aha 1253 00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,360 moment when you just held it and I created it. 1254 00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,760 I was like this is exactly what I want. 1255 00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:35,240 This is the perfect space between an A5 and like AB 5. 1256 00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:38,840 This is glorious. This is heaven in a 8 by 8 inch 1257 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,440 surface. See, I remember getting my first 1258 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,280 square notebook and I think it was again from being on the 1259 00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,720 ambassador team and then like sending you your welcome package 1260 00:56:47,720 --> 00:56:49,880 or whatever. And I looked at them like, fuck, 1261 00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,120 am I supposed to do with this now? 1262 00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:54,720 Now I love it. Now I love squares, but at the 1263 00:56:54,720 --> 00:57:00,280 time I was just like brother. Alright Jess, what's your final 1264 00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,560 regret? I feel like this one is gonna 1265 00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,520 get me cancelled by at least some people. 1266 00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,040 So like, if this is your favorite supply, just no. 1267 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:08,920 I don't think it's a bad product. 1268 00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,560 I completely understand the merits of it and I know why 1269 00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,520 people like them as much as they do. 1270 00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:17,360 But when I first started journaling, I mean, still, but 1271 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,000 when I first started journaling, everybody was using these, 1272 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:24,000 these, this was the thing like you had to get your Lt. 1917 and 1273 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,240 you had to get this thing and that was going to be like your 1274 00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,400 combo for doing your journaling and whatnot. 1275 00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,160 I'm nervous what you're about to say. 1276 00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:31,960 I know. I know that people like them, 1277 00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,280 but I just, I haven't used them all that much. 1278 00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,840 The extent to which I got any kind of use out of them was when 1279 00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,200 I was a teacher, and that was just because I felt guilty that 1280 00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,480 I hadn't used them. So I tried to use them. 1281 00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,480 Jess, what is it? Jess, what is it we have to 1282 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,040 know? It's the mild signers and I 1283 00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,440 just, I don't, I don't get the appeal really. 1284 00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,960 Like they're cute and I, I have them on the desk is like a 1285 00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,680 pretty decorative thing, but like I just don't use them at 1286 00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:58,920 all. And I'm a completionist though, 1287 00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,560 So I have to get them. I had to get the full set of the 1288 00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,400 rainbow ones and I had to go get the brush tip ones as well. 1289 00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:06,720 And because they had that set where it's like a different 1290 00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,080 color in Japan versus in America, I had to get my 1291 00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,120 American friend to send me one of the copper ones because I 1292 00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,640 didn't have it. Why I don't use them? 1293 00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,720 I know this about myself, but I must. 1294 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,040 I had to have the pen, I had to have that pen, and now I have 1295 00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,160 two of that pen and I'm not going to use that pen, but I've 1296 00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,200 got 2 of that pen. I mean, I understand the 1297 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,640 completionist nature. I mean, we've got all these 1298 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:26,360 beautiful ones that we got from Go Wild. 1299 00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,920 And I'm not just saying this because they sponsored me at Go 1300 00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:30,920 Wild. I mean, obviously I'm a major 1301 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:34,720 fan of Mildliners and Zebra Forever and Always. 1302 00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:38,040 I'm very appreciative to them. But I was the same way with it. 1303 00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,440 The thing for me though with with them and I will say is 1304 00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:43,160 there are a whole lot of colors, right? 1305 00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:46,160 We all know this because like you said, they have a rainbow 1306 00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,800 and you just like want more. But then you're like, but I, I'm 1307 00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,720 pretty sure I already have several of them. 1308 00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,280 So that's one of those items I talked about taking to work 1309 00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,440 where I'm like, who wants free stationary? 1310 00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:01,400 And they're like, Mark, why are all of these highlighters purple 1311 00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,440 and pink? Like, well, I do work with them 1312 00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,320 and they send me a new pack every time we do work together 1313 00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,720 for whatever I was like. So I have several of these, but 1314 00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,480 I understand where you're coming from though. 1315 00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:15,360 But like they're so great. They're it's like 2 peas and a 1316 00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,440 pod Notebook journaling and mild liners. 1317 00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,880 Like I can't think about them without them, but they kind of 1318 00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,200 go together. I remember getting my first set. 1319 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,160 I was so excited. I'm like, Oh my God, this is it. 1320 00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,800 I'm like a real journaler now. And then after like a week and a 1321 00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:32,080 half, I was just like, I think I'm gonna get Tombos. 1322 00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,120 So I went and got the full set of Tombos instead. 1323 00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,680 And to be honest, I use my tombos to death. 1324 00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,360 Like there are multiple of those that I've had to replace 1325 00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,280 multiple times because I do use the ever loving heck out of them 1326 00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,200 and thus they get dried out. I replace them. 1327 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,120 I have my full collection very happy. 1328 00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:51,280 I have used maybe one mild liner to the point where it kind of 1329 00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,280 needed replacing. And then I just didn't replace 1330 00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:55,360 it because I'm like, I've got the the colour, I've got the 1331 00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:58,480 cap, it's in the rainbow looks cute, but I don't use it. 1332 00:59:58,480 --> 00:59:59,960 So I don't see the point of replacing it. 1333 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,840 The biggest thing that I had about my liner early on, it was 1334 01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,120 just until recently, is that anytime you use them, you had to 1335 01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:08,880 usually highlight first and then write over top of it. 1336 01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,720 And I know that turned a lot of people off, but now I like can't 1337 01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,720 stop talking about the serasa mark on pen that Zebra put out. 1338 01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,160 Yeah, that's my that's my go to writing pen right now. 1339 01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,600 Yeah, it literally solves that problem for mild liners, a 1340 01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,120 reverse engineering. They were like, oh mild liners 1341 01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:26,000 don't work with any of our own pens even it smears everything 1342 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:29,200 and they're like how about a pen that you can now use those with 1343 01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,400 and that now is the same for me. It's my go to because anything 1344 01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:34,680 that I I want to do that, whether it is mildliner or a 1345 01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:38,640 highlighter or anything I despise, it makes me physically 1346 01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,680 gag whenever I like write something and then highlight 1347 01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:45,720 over with like a yellow 1 and it turns out ugly muddy highlighter 1348 01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,320 color and you're just like burn the book. 1349 01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,360 We don't need this anymore. That's so foul and grody 1350 01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:52,440 looking. I hate it. 1351 01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,960 But that is the only kind of regret that I kind of had to 1352 01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,280 using them early on was was that. 1353 01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,560 But now that they have this, I've used them a lot and I don't 1354 01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:03,320 even show them in my bullet journal all the time too, 1355 01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,160 because I'll also just use it on whatever I'm writing a note on 1356 01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:08,160 around here. It's just they're super fun and 1357 01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:09,240 versatile. I like them a lot. 1358 01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,880 Yeah mines literally getting used for desk decoration. 1359 01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,800 Looks very cute but I don't ever take them out of the bucket, 1360 01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:19,520 especially because of the bucket they're in to to to get pens out 1361 01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:22,040 of them I would have to disrupt the rainbow and not about that 1362 01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:23,640 business. No, that took too long. 1363 01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,000 I mean, for me it wouldn't matter because I don't even know 1364 01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,280 the rainbow color in the right order that they would need to go 1365 01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:30,600 in. They all kind of look the same 1366 01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:32,240 to me. I mean, I will say the one thing 1367 01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:34,560 that I do love about them though, even though I know what 1368 01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:36,920 you're saying here is they're one of the only marker brands 1369 01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:38,760 that actually have the color name on them. 1370 01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:42,160 So for me, I've also used them a lot because a lot of them don't 1371 01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,040 have that. So I don't know the difference 1372 01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,920 between a lot of the yellows and green markers and some of those 1373 01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:49,160 highlighter packs because they do look alike and the the 1374 01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:51,080 purples and the Blues like I talk about too. 1375 01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:54,800 I've always appreciated that they've always put the color 1376 01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,080 names on their markers because that to me means a lot. 1377 01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,320 I know that's probably a very sad, weird thing to do, but from 1378 01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,720 a like, you know, accommodation standpoint for us Colorbind 1379 01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,760 float out there, it is definitely super helpful. 1380 01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:09,160 So I have another kind of affinity for them because 1381 01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:11,240 they're the only ones that were there for me when I needed. 1382 01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:12,160 Them. No, that's fair. 1383 01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:15,560 I mean, I'm not even colorblind. I just find sometimes in certain 1384 01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,120 pen brands, especially if they've got quite a large 1385 01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:21,000 lineup, if it doesn't have a number or a color name or 1386 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,000 something like that, it's very hard to figure out which one is 1387 01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,520 which. But I don't think you'd really 1388 01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:27,440 be able to get away with using my ones because mine are 1389 01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,120 Japanese. So unless you're Japanese is 1390 01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,160 good. Yeah, they've got a name on it, 1391 01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:35,920 but it's like Mayurudo Blue kind of a thing, and you have to be 1392 01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:37,120 able to read it. So like. 1393 01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,400 So I've had the same thing with the Serasa vintage ones. 1394 01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:44,120 Those are also I'm guessing in Japanese or whatever. 1395 01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,600 I actually use Google, the Google app with a translate with 1396 01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,640 the camera and it scans and it'll tell me what color it is 1397 01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:52,880 and I will Swatch. And I actually keep a Swatch 1398 01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,000 with them. And I've labeled my pens too as 1399 01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:56,400 well. So I know what color they are 1400 01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:59,120 because a lot of them do look alike, like some of the vintage 1401 01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:01,720 Browns and Reds kind of in that space alike. 1402 01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,280 But I literally will use that anytime. 1403 01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,880 And then someone just told me about on Instagram the other 1404 01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,120 day, I was talking about this. She said that her husband is 1405 01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:13,080 colorblind as well, and he uses an app to identify colors. 1406 01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:15,880 So it's just on his phone. And if he's ever not sure, he 1407 01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,000 uses it. And I was like, this is genius 1408 01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,480 because you know how often I've gone, like shopping and I'll be 1409 01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,840 like, hey, you know, wife and kids, what do you think of this 1410 01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:24,120 shirt? And they're like, so you wear 1411 01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,920 purple now I'm like, this is clearly blue. 1412 01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:30,440 They're like that. That is clearly very purple. 1413 01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,720 And I'm like, OK, so I'm going to download this app and it's 1414 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,080 going to help me live my life to the fullest. 1415 01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:39,080 Now that sounds like a really cool accessibility tool, but 1416 01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,320 I'm, I, I enjoyed talking about this. 1417 01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,480 It made me feel slightly less bad about the things that I've 1418 01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:47,560 kind of bought into my stash that maybe I didn't really need 1419 01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:50,120 to have there or whatnot. And has also got me like really 1420 01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,920 motivated to do a declutter of my office to get rid of some of 1421 01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:54,880 these things. So not me at all. 1422 01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:57,400 I'm still, I'm gonna put these all right back in the same exact 1423 01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:01,000 spot that I pulled them from for this video because I could 1424 01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:05,160 never, ever get rid of things. Jess, I don't know who you think 1425 01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,440 you are. Definitely not a planner pal if 1426 01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,400 you throw things away, that's for damn sure. 1427 01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,160 And it's OK if decluttering is your favorite sport, like me, 1428 01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:14,120 then it's fine. You can sit at my table. 1429 01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,280 And if you like hoarding everything and never getting rid 1430 01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:19,000 of anything, you can come. Well, no, you're sorry. 1431 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,400 You can't sit at my table. There's things on the seats in 1432 01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:23,040 the table you can stand around me. 1433 01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,440 Sorry. That's actually the the chair 1434 01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,160 for my emotional support. A fives. 1435 01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:30,280 You're not allowed to sit there. They just hold that well, 1436 01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:33,160 Plenary pals, we'd love to hear from you on the regrets that 1437 01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:35,000 maybe you have. And again, those regrets don't 1438 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:36,640 have to be things that you don't love. 1439 01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:40,160 As you heard over and over again, not just for the safety 1440 01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:43,480 of cancer culture, but for the safety of just plenary pals 1441 01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:46,240 uniting all together. It can things that you love, but 1442 01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:47,480 maybe just aren't feeling as well. 1443 01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:49,480 So if you're watching on YouTube or you're listening on a 1444 01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:52,200 podcast, make sure to drop a comment and let us know what 1445 01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:54,880 those regrets are. You can also e-mail us Planner 1446 01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:58,560 Pals podcast@gmail.com and you can also visit us over on 1447 01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,760 Instagram at Planner Pals Podcast and drop a note and let 1448 01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:04,000 us know what those regrets are. All right, Jess, what are we 1449 01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,600 talking about next time? In our next episode, because we 1450 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:08,680 are getting to the end of the year, we're going to be doing an 1451 01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:10,600 end of year Planner Pals wrap up. 1452 01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,240 Having a look through what our kind of like best topics and 1453 01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:15,800 talking points were, the ones that resonate with you, the ones 1454 01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:17,480 that were our personal favorites. 1455 01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,440 Just having a think about maybe where is the Planner Pals going 1456 01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:21,960 next year? What kind of things do we have 1457 01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,280 to look forward to and. This episode's going to be fun 1458 01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:27,200 too, because when it comes out, it will technically still be 20 1459 01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:32,800 and 24 for me, but it'll be 2025 for you on the release date, so 1460 01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:34,600 that's going to be even more cool about it. 1461 01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,320 This is what's so cool about having friends across the world. 1462 01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,840 I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully you are too, planner 1463 01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:41,400 pals. But for today, thanks for 1464 01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:42,000 watching.