Welcome to the Planner Pals Podcast, a podcast hosted by two
true planner pals. My name is Mark and I go by Mark
Your pages. And I'm Jess or Jessie Curran,
and in today's episode, we're talking about things that we
just kind of regret bringing into our planner and stationary
stashes, things that maybe didn't get used as much as we
would have hoped. They were things that didn't
work out as the, you know, way that we kind of wanted them to.
They're not necessarily all bad products.
I need to be careful because my fingers like really sore, but
they're not bad AD products, but they are things that we just
don't really find that we're using as much as would be ideal
given the fact that we purchased these things.
Jess, I feel really bad your poor little rabbit fingers are
not doing their job today. It's so sad.
Yeah, no, I I had a run in with a knife in a not so fun way, so.
Oh well. I'm just thankful you didn't
share the photo with me because I would have not ended up well.
Gosh, I wasn't doing well. I was kind of like, you know,
all righty, Oh, it's fine. It's all good.
Nothing's happening. And then it starts to, you know,
build the Nope, Nope, Nope. Like need to sit down, deep
breathing kind of thing. So yeah, don't need to show
anybody on the Internet that we've just got our friend and
little guy here. His name is JT, which stands for
Just the Tip. Risky, Barry, I was gonna say,
well, maybe JT can make a few appearances when we give you
close up to the things that we're talking about today that
didn't quite workout. And thanks for giving that
little preface to the conversation here today because
I had a really hard time because a lot of these things I really
love. It's just that I don't really
use them and part of me definitely regrets purchase seen
them or as many of them as I have.
That's probably the other problem that I have.
I don't regret all of the purchases, just how many in some
cases. Yeah, when you have, I don't
know, anybody can relate, you let us know.
I have a tendency to, once I get one of something I very much
like a Pokémon got to catch them all kind of mindset.
So it's like, oh, you got 1 of this, like, you know, particular
brand of pen, so we need to go get all of the pens from that
collection. You got 1 of this type of
notebook. Now you feel like you need to
get all of them, even though it's like you're not necessarily
trying to fill out the collection completely.
But I am a bit of a completionist when it comes to
those things and it can be just like a little bit dangerous.
That's exactly it. You hit the nail on the head.
I have a completionist nature to me as well, and it's just like,
I see, I was like, I need to have these things.
So let's go ahead and kick into some of these because it'll just
roll right into all the completionist tendencies that we
have. Jess, why don't you kick us off
with one of the first things you regret buying?
So my probably one of the biggest regrets and I don't do
it so much anymore. So that's like, I know maybe a
slight win is buying notebooks without a kind of purpose for
what they're going to be used for.
I'm not so much thinking about my current addiction to Archer
and Olive and 160 GSM ones because like, yeah, OK, it's a
problem, but it's a problem I'm happy to have.
What I'm also thinking about is when I first got started with
journalling and planning and I started thinking like, oh, I
need a journal for this and a journal for that, and I'm going
to have this one and that one. But I didn't do any kind of
testing or trial runs as to how those were going to work.
So like I started a language learning journal and filled out
2 pages. I started a travel journal and
kept it for maybe 3 or 4 trips and then realized that wasn't
really how I like to do my memory keeping.
So I ended up buying these notebooks that only ended up
very kind of like small amounts of use, partial use.
And because they're not the type of notebooks I now use, you
know, my 160 GSM with like none of the bleeding and all of that
kind of thing. I have them in my stash still
because I still reference them in videos but I just wish they
had gotten used more and they probably would have gotten used
more if I had more of it. Like solid set in stone plan as
to how they were going to get used.
I don't have as many of those previous because I was very it's
the right word. Frugal is that the right word
where you're like don't want to spend your money on stuff,
whereas frugal mean the opposite, where you buy you
don't care. I think frugal means that you're
not gonna spend the money. OK, if that's if I'm using that
word correctly, then that was me early on.
I remember when I bought my very first Lloystrom 1917 and I was
freaking out because it was like a $20 notebook and I was just
freaking out like, Oh my gosh, I'm spending all this money on a
notebook. So early on I didn't have that
problem because I was so nervous about it.
But now do I spend way too much money and buy way too many of
them? It's a it's very different than
seven years ago. Yeah.
I think there's like even though the kind of, you know, problem
area or my consideration of the problem area is, you know, the
way back when, the days of yesteryear 2017 kind of a thing.
I think it's just because the types of notebooks I was buying
because I'm, you know, at that point I was purchasing LT19
seventeens as well, but they're not my preferred notebook
anymore. So I still have them in my
stash, but I know that they just, I don't want to say
they're not going to get used, but currently they are not being
used. I use a lot of mine, honestly,
for the R&D journals we talk about when I'm just kind of
figuring out some ideas or sketching some things out.
They're kind of my go to and then I just skip a whole extra
page because I don't like the ghosting.
And we talked about that in previous episodes about
especially when you're putting things out on the Internet,
Internet around notebooks, you don't want to see what's on
those other pages in there. And I don't feel bad about it
like I used to because I have so many other notebooks now I feel
like. No that that's very fair.
I don't mind using them for scribbling notes but I've been
because I've been taking into the using the kokuyo like spiral
bound the soft ring or whatever. Maybe I should, once those ones
are done, just pull out some of the LT19 seventeens and use them
for that, because then at least they're getting a use.
Yeah, I love a solution. It works out well.
Well, it actually helps out because while we were talking
about this, I'll take mine just a little bit out of order of
what I was going to go in because it's actually perfectly
pairs with it because I have a notebook that I purchased.
This is from president, correct? And it's called an archive
diary. So this is something that I saw
on their website and when I first saw it, I was like, this
is the coolest damn notebook. I actually have another one that
has a top left corner spiral bound is how it's held together.
So it's like a vertical notepad doc grid paper.
Love it, but it's just not something I would normally use
and this it's almost just like one big calendar like there's no
real purpose behind it honestly. And as we were talking, I was
like, oh, you know what I could do with something like this like
maybe I could use this for my advent calendar for the ink one
that I bought because that'll be a full month of it.
But then I'll still have a notebook that has I don't even
know how many other pages inside of here blank until I think of
another idea for it. But but this is one of those
that I regret. This is kind of what I'm talking
about now essentially is that now that I'm not as frugal about
it or I'm, I'm just more open to trying new things that I get
excited by new stationary. It's actually the story of
everything I'll be talking about today is my excitement around
just different types of fun stationary.
This was definitely one of them where I thought, oh, I could
definitely use this for something.
I'm just not quite sure exactly just yet.
I mean, as a folder in the front cover and everything, like it's
essentially a project notebook I feel like, which would be pretty
cool. There are some blank pages and
some calendar pages. I just really have no idea like
what I would actually do with it.
So this is one of my regrets. Love president.
Correct. I love their different type of
like cool old school notebooks. Just kind of regret buying it
because I have two of them because I couldn't just buy one
and they just sit on my shelf and look pretty.
That's not how it gets you, right?
Like you just like I'm sure I could find A use for it.
I could find something to use for this like because it's nice
or because it's interesting or whatever.
And then you bring it into your stash and then you never really
get around to finding A use for it or figuring out what
specifically it will be used for.
It's like, cool, cool. Now I just have an overabundance
of things. Before we move on to our next
item, I'm curious if you ever buy stuff like this though, for
the sake of it being a shelf trophy.
Because I have something, it's actually a notepad that's made
out of napkins. And I've had it for over 15
years because the whole idea in the design space and anywhere
really, right, You're writing notes on napkins.
Ideas come to anywhere. So I bought it for myself and I
really, honestly bought it just to sit on my shelf.
And it does sit on my shelf and it has been clearly displayed in
the plastic packaging for all of this time.
I will never use it to write on. It's dumb to do that.
But have you ever bought any like notebooks or any kind of
stuff or stationary even where you strictly buy just because
you know it's going to sit on yourself?
Despite calling them shelf trophies, usually when I
purchase a notebook then the intention is not just to have it
sit on the shelf like they get displayed.
They get put on the shelf so that they can look nice, look
pretty. Makes my office feel like a
special place to be in. But I know I'm going to use them
at some point. Might just take me a while.
I have been finding more recently that with like the full
cover notebooks, in particular, the ones that are absolutely
gorgeous, those ones have been the ones I've been kind of like
leaning towards in terms of picking them up for my everyday
journal use. So like for instance, my
everyday journal for this year, like both of them, because they
were two, the first one was a full cover design.
It was like the foliage one with the square notebook.
Oh my God, so beautiful. And then the second one was the
wanderlust. So it's like, yes, those ones,
well, one of them at least was displayed on the shelf and was
kind of like a shelf trophy, but it was then very promptly used
for an actual notebook that I was using on a daily basis.
So although they are kind of like looking pretty lined up,
looking nice and I do not necessarily buying them for the
intention for them to be there, but I know that that's where
they're going to be stored until I use them, if that kind of
makes sense. Totally make sense.
I've been doing that with like behind me trying to find
notebooks and the covers and things like that that I like
that make it look interesting back there.
Of course, a lot of the Halloween ones that are behind
me look so cool and especially like Archer and Olive and other
brands that have started to add more decoration and like really
focus on their packaging. It just looks so cool.
I love putting them back there now.
So it's definitely like a select curated notebook list of things
that are back there. I will eventually use them.
I know that I have them. I have catalogued them.
It's just they look kind of cool for right now and that's where
they will be because I'm actually running out of space
for the other one. Yeah, fair.
I was thinking about it. I don't think there's probably
one that is a shelf trophy. Like, I know that I'm most
likely not going to use it, but when I purchased it, the
intention wasn't for it to be a shelf trophy.
When I purchased it, I was actually planning on making it
my reading journal because I thought, you know, the reading
journal you're probably going to keep for a while because you
don't read very much. It'll take a while to fill up
and stuff. And it would be nice to have
something that looked pretty and looked special.
And then the notebook arrived and I swear, like, you know,
talking about planner regrets, I don't necessarily regret buying
it because I wouldn't have known if I didn't buy it.
But the notebook from the Quirky Cup Collective is the one of the
biggest disappointments in a notebook I have ever had.
And that's not to say it's a bad notebook.
All right, It might be for you. It might be the kind of thing
that you vibe with, but there are just certain features in
that notebook that do not work for me.
For instance, it has like the sharp edges rather than rounded
edges. I didn't know that about myself
until I got the notebook in my hands.
It was like, oh, this feels very aggressive.
But the most annoying part is probably the fact that the dot
grid isn't consistently 5mm like I think it's 5mm, not even
between the dots and the dots are quite large.
So it means that all of the measurements that I, you know,
know, like and trust have been completely thrown off if I was
going to be using that notebook. So that one is a shelf trophy,
but it wasn't the intention when I bought it.
Makes total sense. All right, Jess, what do we got
going on next? We talked about notebooks.
I mean, I have more notebooks to talk about, but that I saved for
the end because we've got some numbers to throw out.
What's your next item that you absolutely regret purchasing
all? Right.
He's stepping away from notebooks.
I think that one would be any kind of glue tape roller that
just was ineffective. And it's one of those things
that you don't necessarily know until you open up the packaging
and then you try and use it and the tape is busted or it doesn't
lay down nicely or anything like that.
But life is too short to struggle through an ineffective
glue tape roller. Oh my gosh.
Like the entire purpose of buying the glue tape roller is
for convenience and quickness, and it just makes setups easier.
So if it doesn't roll nicely or if the glue doesn't actually lay
down properly, or maybe the glue is like colour in a way that
means that you can't really use it unless with like specific
materials and stuff like that. The worst, and this isn't even
necessarily like cheap glue tape rollers because oftentimes the
ones that are like, you know, cost effective once you get on
like stationary power and whatever, they're actually
really handy. They're usually like smaller and
then travel size and you can take them with you and stick in
pieces of ephemera into your journal, like whatever.
But the ones that got to me and they just did not do what I
needed them to do, that is a bigger regret.
Yeah, these type of things. I know what you're talking about
here. I have maybe one or two.
I think people told me a while back, like bark, why are you
using glue sticks? An actual like tacky liquid
glue? Have you ever heard of a tape
roller? And I was like, no, I've never
heard of a tape roller. So I bought 1.
I think it's from Tombow actually.
And I know what you mean. It's like when you roll it
across your page and either the stickiness doesn't actually make
it onto the surface or the thing I hate the most about those is
when that little piece of cellophane kind of gets wound up
and they're weird. And then you're in there with
like a little paper clip or something trying to rewind it.
I never know which way it is. I just feel like I'm wasting it
honestly. Yeah, I found that the Tombo
ones that I've used previously have worked fairly well.
I haven't had any that were like a real big problem, but there
are some brands in particular and then ones that are like, I'm
going to say New Zealand natives.
So most people probably don't have them.
I think it's called like Unity or something like that with the
I and Y are switched. I don't know, it's like it's an
OK brand. It's supposed to be kind of like
a white label ish, cheap ish brand.
But when you get anything to New Zealand, everything is actually
kind of expensive, so it isn't that cheap.
I would rather go and buy the cheap ones on stationary power
that are from brands that I know like and Trust and will actually
work. I hear you on that.
What would be your next regretful purchase?
So it's very much in line with these sticker tapes, the Deco
Rush tapes, they're exactly kind of what we're talking about when
it comes to these different types of sticky tapes.
It's just, I love them because they're very similar, except
they have a pattern on them. Instead of it being clear with a
double stick tape, it just has a little pattern on it.
So this one's like a house and this one is a book.
And for whatever reason, in my head, and I have literally
probably 8 to 10 of them now and they sit on my desk.
I rarely ever use them and they just I sit here and I think, oh,
like this is a little light bulb 1.
And I'm like, oh, you know, anytime I have a good idea, I'm
going to take this out and I'm going to put it into my
notebook. But the thing that I'm coming up
with more and more, and we talked about this in our
previous episode as well, is I'm just not the type of planner
that is actively planning adding things to my journal while I'm
writing inside of it. I am a person who sets up my
journal, uses my stationary and stickers and stuff like this and
like a setup, but I rarely will pick up a stamp or pick up one
of these Deco Rush tapes and add it to my journal as I'm doing
other things. I don't know why I'm like that.
I'm just not. And so I think for that reason,
it becomes really difficult for me to remember to use them.
I literally sit them right in front of my face as I'm working
with the intention to grab them and use them so I can be useful
about it. So I think it's more about the
lines that I bought too many of them thinking like, oh, I like
the way this little icon looks. I'm going to use that.
I should have just maybe bought one or two and just use them
until they were gone. But again, like I need boxes for
when I'm dealing with packages and I need a little coffee cup.
What I'm feeling like I want some coffee or write a little
coffee theme or, you know, a light bulb when I have an idea.
So I need all the different icons, but I just also don't
need this many Deco Rush tapes. I think that's a really good
point about like, you know, considering how you are as a
planner, how how your kind of like style is, I suppose, you
know, are you the kind of person who sets everything up at once?
You know, does all of the decorative elements and all of
that at the start of the week or start of the month or whatever.
And then for the rest of your time in those layouts, you're
just filling things in with your regular everyday pen, everyday
writing, that kind of stuff. Or are you the kind of person
who likes to do those little bits of decoration as you go,
because those kind of things are going to have some kind of sway
over which pieces of stationary you're more likely to use?
I think that's a cool consideration.
Yeah, it's the same thing with a lot of my stamps and stuff like
that. Like I have a large collection
of stamps, both wood block stamps and clear stamps.
I have the little letters, I have little icons.
I have it all. It's just to think about while
I'm planning and doing something, be like, oh, let me
grab this little tiny stamp. Oh, because I thought of XY or Z
and put it on the page to do that.
I feel that's more along the lines of like the traveler
notebook type individuals that use stuff like that or maybe use
it for memory keeping or kind of doing these daily log long form
type things. You know, like it's almost like
you're creating like a visual diary of your day.
I think that maybe if I did stuff like that with like
ephemera and stuff like that we were just talking about, maybe
it would make more sense. But right now it's just like I
have to remember to use it while I'm setting up my notebook or my
page or my weekly. Otherwise they are just they're
just sitting there. Talking about ephemera, I didn't
even write this on my list because I didn't think of it.
You know how hard it was to actually think of things.
I regret buying because I just. I'm usually quite mindful with
my purchases. I don't bring things into my
stash and my space unless I think I'm going to use them.
But we still have a list to go through.
But ephemera is definitely one that I like.
I feel like regret is too strong a word, but I just know it's
going to take me such a long time to use some of those pieces
up, especially when doing like my reading journal setups and
stuff. For like this year and last
year, I went with very kind of like brown, beige, neutral
tones. And I have accumulated a lot of
brown and beige and that is like pretty much the only space I use
it in. And for my reading journal next,
yeah, I'm no longer going with that kind of color palette or at
least not through the entire the journal like I have been.
So I'm not too sure when those things are going to get used up.
And it's always this kind of like worry that's like, oh, but
things are going to go off quote, quote off.
I'm not saying that they're like actually going to go mouldy or
anything like that, but it's more like, you know, tapes lose
their stick ability, stickers lose their stick ability or they
don't come off the backing paper nicely anymore.
Papers just start to get a little bit new, especially if
you're in a human environment like I am.
So use your stuff. You make a good point.
A lot of the stuff I have like that to have collected.
I'm a really big fan of Eric small things.
I think she's probably hands down one of my favorite creators
out there. And I have so much of her stuff.
I actually had to hold myself back from putting too much of
that in here because it would have looked like a hate fest.
When in fact, I love her and her designs so much because every
single time I see something of hers, I I just it's in my body
and brain. I have to get it.
Like I literally was just on cute things from Japan's website
the other day because she just released more stuff and I put it
all on my cart and I was like, do you really need this Mark?
Are you just like a fanatic about it?
But I do have the same thing. These little paper pull off
pieces. It's ephemera essentially.
And it's like little tiny note cards that I was like, Oh yeah,
like I'll use that. I'll paste that into my bullet
journal or whatever. But it's just so much because
again, I couldn't just buy the one pack.
There was two different colors with two different designs of
them, and I felt like I had to have it.
And so those sit inside of literally a box of ephemera that
I've organized for myself that I rarely ever go into.
So it's just I have to remind myself constantly just use it
more. But again, I have to think about
it as a fit kind of the theme I'm going for for that week or
honestly just something I've chosen and say like, OK, this is
what we're doing this week. So it gets a little difficult.
Yeah, it's kind of hard, like you want to follow kind of like
your current joy, the current vibes that you're going with.
Or is it like a, OK, I'm going to intentionally use my stash
and go and use these items that I collected at a different time
with a different vibe? I think that's also with Archer
and Olive for their Halloween collection stuff.
I do that every single year. I was like, I need this right
now in my life. Absolutely.
And then you get it and you're like, yeah.
And then Halloween's over. And unless you have a certain
type of notebook or a theme or something you're going with
that, you can still keep that kind of spooky Halloween kind of
dark vibe with a lot of that doesn't get used again.
And especially with the notebooks, I'm just like, oh, I
want that blood moon, that red blood moon notebook, right?
I have to have it. And I get it, I love it, but
like, when am I going to use that next?
You know, I'm just like, well, will that be my next bullet
journal? But I had all these other ones
lined up. But then it's going to feel
weird if it's like January and I'm pulling out a Blood Moon
notebook or stickers or something to work with their
washi tape. So it does get a little
difficult with that too, because you're just like in the moment
you need it or it's kind of your theme or your vibe, like you
said. But then it's a passing thing,
because now a new shiny thing is coming to my life.
Yeah, you just need to have like a full year of like Spooktacular
everything. Just do a running theme of like
every Halloween esque item I've ever had ever.
Because I think about that in terms of Christmas tapes,
because I do have a fair few Christmas tapes.
I also have a lot of Halloween tapes, but those ones don't seem
to bother me as much. I'm like, yeah, I could pull out
a Halloween tape in April and just be like vibes, why not?
But I don't really want to pull out anything with a Santa hat on
it. So what would be your next
purchasing regret? So it's the only thing that I
included that does have Eric Small Things on it.
So I think my biggest regret, I love it, but it's a regret is
the year day by day calendar from Eric Small Things.
It's a cute little one that sits on my desk.
I'm almost done with it. I don't know if you're on
YouTube, you can see it. You can actually see the staples
coming out from it now because we're so close.
But the problem with this is that I did use it.
So I'm not going to say that I cannot throw away all of them.
So I literally have an envelope filled with 11 months of each of
the individual pages because Jess, I'm going to cut them out
somehow. I'm going to punch them out
somehow and I will use these inside of my bullet journal.
I cannot throw them away. And therefore this is like a
regret because it has caused me to hoard even more stuff that I
may not even use again. It's like ephemera again.
I don't. I mean, I have ideas.
I've done a few spreads with them.
I've run them through my Sizzix little die cutter.
I've pasted them into my stuff. But like, do did I need this?
Especially when I have a calendar on my watch, on my
computer, in my bullet journal, You know what I'm saying?
So it's a regret just because it's caused more collection, not
because I don't absolutely love Eric Small Things.
No, I'm literally that way inclined as well.
Like, at least it's something cute.
At least it's like some kind of design element to it.
My current stash is just like every tiny off cut of paper from
anytime I make stickers for my journal because, you know, I
print out little book covers for my reading journal and whatever
and there's always a little bit of extra space leftover.
But because the paper cost money, I think the stick of
paper, I'm like, no, we must save every off cut of this stick
of paper. I'm like, why?
I don't make this many mistakes in my journal.
Like I make mistakes, but not this many, not, not this many
mistakes. I don't need quite as much.
So I have, I'm so proud of myself and it's taken me a lot
and I still kind of trip up sometimes, but I have started
putting them in the bin. Thank you, thank you.
Yes, crown it. I, I I deserve an award.
That's really, I mean, it's definitely hit that point.
I used to do it with like all the wrapping papers and little
like ribbons and stuff that I used to get from different
people that would send it. And I did get to the point where
the only thing I say is Eric Small Things.
Like I can't help it. Cute thing from Japan wraps all
of their stuff in Eric Small things wrapping paper.
And I'm such an obsessed fan that I can't throw away the
literal packaging tissue of a thing because it has on it.
Because I'm like, I'll use that for something.
I was literally the same. I got AI kind of remember.
It must have been like notebook therapy or something because I
don't know if it's them. So you know at me if I'm wrong,
but they wrapped their notebook in vellum instead of just
regular paper. So I kept that vellum piece for
the longest time. Finally throw it out.
But it's this kind of thing, right?
Like we keep these things because they're like, oh, I feel
guilty throwing them away or like it's cute and I want to use
it at some point or whatever and stuff.
If you actually got rid of it and it's not just cute, like if
one, if one actually got rid of it, you would feel a little bit
of regret maybe for the 1st 5 minutes like, oh, it was cute.
I totally could have figured something out for it.
But in five days time, you won't even remember.
And if you do, it won't feel as painful.
It's only painful in the here and now.
So like we can get rid of the things.
I think that the part that makes it really hard for me is when
you want to get rid of something or like you don't necessarily
want to get rid of it, but you feel like you should, but you
want to get rid of something that feels like it still has
very good value. It's like, oh, I paid a lot of
money for this. I could still sell it like it's
not used or anything like this. And oftentimes in those cases, I
make what's called my very fondly called my fuck it bucket.
And that effectively just gets all of the stationary items that
are either so lightly used that I wouldn't mind giving it to
somebody else or they're like not even touched at all.
And next time my friends come over, I go like, hey guys, do
you want anything from the stash?
Like you can have any of these tapes.
It's like going to the dentist office where you get to pick out
like a sticker or a toothbrush. When you're done, go to Jess's
house and you get to pick from her stationary box.
That actually sounds like a really good way to invite people
over. Yeah, especially because, you
know, with the amount of stuff that I get sent to like, you
know, look at or like review or anything like that, there are
some elements that just aren't for me.
And those ones I'm usually kind of OK with parting with getting
rid of them from my stash. But because they're still good
quality items, I'm not just gonna throw them in the bin or
anything like that. So the next time the friends
come over, I'm like, hey, do you guys want this cat washi tape?
Do you guys want these florals that don't really go with my
journal? Anything like that.
Usually I can get rid of a good portion of them just from my
friends. But if it doesn't, if it doesn't
vibe with them, then I literally just go onto like my Facebook
community group or whatever for our like local community and say
hey, does anybody have kids that like really want to get into
crafting? Because I've got like a bucket
load of stuff for them. There's a guy in my comments on
YouTube with one of the recent subscription boxes and we had
this really funny interaction where he said, you know, Archer
and Olive isn't necessarily always for me.
And I talk about this too. He's like, but the best thing
is, is that anytime I don't like it, I just take it to work.
And all of the people that I work with go crazy over the free
stationary. He's like, it makes me look like
a hero. I'm giving out all this free
stuff when really it's just the stuff that I didn't want it and
fit my vibe from the box that I got.
And I was like, I can so align with you on this because I do it
all of the time. I'll just come into work and be
like, who wants stickers and washi tapes?
And everyone's like, oh, this is so cool.
And they're like, Mark, why are all the markers only pink and
purple and like glitter? Like why don't you have any
their colors? I'm like oh because I will
actually use all the other colors because I don't really
use pink and purples, at least not on purpose inside of my
bullet journal. What?
Talking about Archer and olive, one of my regrets would probably
have to be the acrylographs. And that's not to say that
they're like a bad product or anything.
You know, people who like paint pens, probably fine.
I just found that the amount of maintenance required to keep
them nice enough to use actively was like too hard.
I didn't like having to, you know, shake them, prime them,
get the ink through them, clean off the nibs, anything like
that. I also don't like the dry time
because they just don't align with how I like to do my
planning and journaling. It's one of those things that
like, you know, making sure that we're buying supplies or
acquiring supplies that actually fit our style and those ones did
not fit my style. The biggest regret though is
because I am a completionist. It took me a really long time to
come to the decision of like, we are not collecting any more of
these. Like I had over 1000 U.S.
Dollars worth of acrylic telegraphs before I decided
like, no, it's enough. I feel you on that a lot.
Especially the very early ones. I remember when they first
started to come out, they were defective as all hell.
I remember pushing it down and just like blobs of the like the
ink or the paint really. It's not ink, but coming out on
my page and just looking at it and being like bullshit, you
know, like what do I even do with this?
I go back and forth with so often when I remember to open up
my drawers and I actually organized them recently by
labeling all of them so I can quickly find the colors that I
would actually use. And do I love using them because
I'm just like, Oh yeah, I forgot how much I really do like
writing with these and using these different colors and
layering them on top of each other.
But but it's rare that I do that for that same reason.
It's super fun to shake them up and then you're just like, Oh my
God, like I've been doing this for like 4 minutes now.
Is this stuff going to come out? But then it's the same thing.
That is the one item though when we talked about this and again,
no disrespect to Archer and all of it, all on this.
If that marker pen does not work or just as completely crap, I
just throw it right away. I don't even try to bring it
back to life or do anything. And I'm getting there with some
of the coleographs too, if I'm being honest with you, because
they, some of the older ones have been getting that little
crystallization stuff on it and just totally stops the pen from
working. And I've just been chalking them
because I'm just like, it's not worth it me doing like pen
surgery to try to bring this back to life.
It should just work. Exactly that, it should just
work. I've been finding that like with
certain pens, I will, you know, do the surgery as much as I can.
My Tombos are ones that I'm like, no, I will like store you
upside down. I will like try and flick the
ink to the bottom of the barrel, like anything like that,
preserve you for just a little bit longer.
But other pens, it's like a you you skipped slightly when I
tried to write something. It's communicado.
Goodbye, you're dead. Denzel, I feel you.
I think that one of the hard things with the acrylographs as
well is that along with just, you know, that kind of
completionist mentality and it's like, oh, got to get every set
kind of a thing, which when you live at the ass end, the world
does become very expensive. But because I had as many of
them as I had, I went through kind of like a few iterations of
trying to store them because, you know, you had to store them
horizontally so that you didn't get that separation.
And then, you know, that 4 minute of shake turns into 40
minutes of shake or like whatever.
But I found that to store them initially, I went and bought a
set of Muji drawers, those little acrylic ones, which are
also a purchasing regret because now, as I don't have
acrylographs anymore, they're too shallow to store legit
anything else I own. So I've still got them because
they were expensive. Like, you know, purchasing them
because we don't have a Muji store and then shipping them,
quite a pricey item. I mean, in terms of acrylic
drawers, quite pricey, but now I don't have anything to actually
put in them, but I feel guilty giving them away.
So like, I've tried to pull the drawers out and use the drawers
upside down as like kind of no shelf organizers and stuff like
that. But then they're too deep for
that. But then they're too shallow to
store any pins appropriately. Yeah.
Well, my next item is something that again love where I bought
it from love the idea, never use it.
So this is a cool little suitcase and inside of this cool
little suitcase are little tiny ink samples.
They're numbered. There's a little itty bitty
glass eyedropper inside of here. I got this from my buddy Eric
over at Amarillo stationary. It is beautiful inks.
They are teeny tiny and I will never travel with this little
thing anywhere. Not because I'm afraid it just
doesn't make sense. Like, Can you imagine me going
to work and being like, hold on guys And I pull out my little
ink Swatch and like fill up a pen while I'm there?
They'd be like, what is you? Who the hell are you?
It looks so pretentious. I'd love it so much.
Like excuse me just a second, just now.
Just just now. So this is turned into one of
those desk trophy type things right where it sits on my desk.
I love that it, it looks really cool.
That's the that's my problem with a lot of stuff is it looks
really cool. I think it's neat.
I love the idea, but like at this point right now, like I
just need to just use this ink that's inside of here so I can
feel like I really got my money's worth.
And that way it can just be out on the table.
And it's not like there's just lost ink sitting inside of here.
So it's a regret to a certain extent.
Again, from a collector's item standpoint, I love it.
I think it's awesome. But from a usefulness like
actually ever going to probably use use this in a real world
scenario? No, I think that's the hard
thing with the little bottles of ink as well.
Because obviously when you gave me my fountain pen, you also
gave me some ink. Very, very appreciative of that.
But I don't have ink storage, so they're just sitting like little
vials in an upturned lid from an Archer and Olive box.
Just kind of like sitting there like by themselves.
Just so now that's the other thing too.
I was actually going to put ink samples on my list.
I I love how like simpatico we're becoming now with the way
that we're thinking. It's hilarious.
I let me grab it real quick to show you because again, more,
more desk trophy things. So someone told me to buy it's a
shotgun shell casing, right? And it fits sample bottles in it
very nicely. So I've been storing them in
here now too because I'm running out of sample space because I
actually have a sample holder that I actually bought from my
Goulet pens that perfectly fits them in there.
It's like a little science tray essentially.
So I have that. I also just bought another one
recently when I was at a pen show and then this was my most
recent purchase to start filling up.
But I thought, well that's kind of cool.
Then I have about 6 of them sitting over here because I just
did some stuff with Ferris Wheel Press recently.
And again, I will use them. I'm getting to the point now
where they actually really work well for like the Tom Studio
pens or Ferris Wheel Press has a similar thing with like the
reusable fine liners and brush pens where you stick the little
reservoir in the ink and it sucks it up.
This works out great for that because you can easily just
stick it in there and it sucks the ink up and you're like, OK,
this sample is done next figure those things out.
But otherwise you are just storing them.
And I have this thing where and we've talked about I can't wait
to finally use a bunch of ink, but I'm terrified and actually
finishing a bottle of ink because I'm like, what if I
can't get it again? So I have this like weird, full
of like, yes, use the rest of this ink in this stupid little
ink vial to don't use it because you don't know if you'll get it
again. No, it's hard like that because
I I find that for other suppliers, calliographs would be
one of them. Like not to say that I don't use
my calliographs because I'm worried they're going to run
out, but I do worry that they will run out because you can't
get them again. Like they don't re release
collections unless there's like no one would bring back the
favorites or something. But I don't think they bought
back calliographs with Bring Back the Favorites, at least not
this year. But that would be one of them.
Also, like washi tapes from the washi tape shop, once they're
out of season, they very seldom come back.
And then you have the problem of like, you use them in the video
and everyone's like, Oh my God, that's beautiful.
Where did you get it? You're like, I'm sorry, it's
been sold off for many moons, but.
No, I actually completely agree with you on that too.
I think so often when we're using those and we talked about
that before, it's so terrible to be like, sorry, this is a six
year old washi tape that I just found in the bottom of my
drawer. That's why I'm using it again.
You can't get it anymore. Just like, oh crap, I think we
should start treating it like vintage clothing.
You know, like you go and you buy your like, this is vintage
Ferris Wheel Press from two years ago because they don't
make the color anymore. Yeah, I think it would be very
impressive to use an entire bottle of ink, though, because
what, I filled up my fountain pen once, and admittedly, I
don't use it as much as other people use theirs, but I filled
it up once. I only filled it up like a
centimeter of the way because I was just like, OK, come on, we
don't want to fill the entire thing or anything like that.
And that one has still lost me many many moons.
Probably last me many moons to come.
We got to get you to clean that thing out and just put some
black ink in it. I think that's going to be the
thing that'll force you just to use, not force you, but make you
want to use it more If it has a color in it that you'll actually
use a lot. I do that a lot with mine where
I'll fill them with like a cool color or whatever, but like my
go to will just be like, oh, here's a fountain pen with black
ink in it. That makes the most sense.
It happens all the time. I always have at least a pen on
my desk filled with black ink and then I'll have another one
with like a fun color in it. Always go for the black ink
first. So I think we should do that.
Maybe we should do like hand over hand virtually on how to
clean out Iris, how to care for her, tend for her and then how
to fill her with a new just regular black ink.
I think you'll you'll be better. Yeah, I know that because the
black ink that you gave me, people saying like, oh, it's
going to stain the inside of the pen.
I'm like, no, Iris, don't do it. You have so much to live for.
That's what's actually the same Black egg is inside of here.
It looks like it's stained. Once I clean this out, it'll
just come out. It's honestly, it's people get a
little too uptight about stuff like that.
It's also just a pen and you can always buy another one or I can
buy you another one, Jess, if you really need me to.
Do not hold back from filling that up.
You will be OK. Well, Iris is not a regret.
She does not deserve to be on this list.
But what would be your next purchasing regret?
All right, so Speaking of black items, I have so many blackout
sticky notes because I thought, Mark, you're going to use these
blackout sticky notes all the time.
Look how cool they are. Look how many gel pens you have,
acrylic wraps that you have that you could write on them with.
It is such a pain in the ass to take out anything extra just to
make it work on black sticky notes.
I feel the same way about blackout paper.
I know there's a world out there you can at me and tell me I'm
wrong, but honestly blackout paper is fun paper.
It is not for me a daily newspaper.
So the fact of like buying these blackouts to use them inside of
my journal or anywhere in my general space requires me to
also have a pen that will work appropriately on these.
And we all I know it's impossible to find like a good
white gel pen. And even if I do, I don't use it
that much. So it like goes someplace where
it takes me too long to find it and I'm like, screw it, grab a
yellow 1. So I have a whole bunch of these
just sitting around. Maybe one day it will not be
today nor tomorrow. Yeah, I mainly use them as kind
of like embellishments or just like decoration rather than
actually writing on them because I'm very much the same.
If I have to write over the top of black paper, it's usually
like a gel pen or a paint pen or whatever, and then there's dry
time and I couldn't be bothered. I have other things to do with
my time that it looks really cool.
It looks absolutely amazing, but I just, I don't have the
inclination to wait around for it to dry.
And even then once it is fully dry, you know, left it for three
to seven business days or whatever.
As soon as I close that notebook, it transfers to the
other side. So I'm like, cool, now I've got
reverse ghosting or something like that.
Well, the one thing I don't regret are the transparent
sticky notes. I'll be use them all day long.
I think they're the coolest damn things out there on the market.
But yeah, the blackout ones, I'm not here for non transparency.
All right, Jess, what's your next regret?
This one's tricky because I know that there is use with the item
and I have used it before. It's just that I don't really
use it anymore. And that would be any kind of
like thermal printer that only prints in black and white.
Because oftentimes if I want to print something in black and
white, like I'll just use my regular printer.
I don't I don't need a travel printer and these thermal
printers are usually kind of travel size.
They do print on sticker paper, which is kind of nice.
You can just stick it into your journal.
But now that I have the the required skills to be able to
print on the larger sheets of sticker paper on my home printer
and get a usually a better quality of print and also the
ability to print in color, I just do not use the thermal
printer anymore. So for some people like, you
know, if you don't have an at home printer or if you're on the
go or whatever, then they can be quite useful.
But because they are also thermal, then they run the risk
of like, I know your journal gets overheated and now your
image is kind of warped or anything like that.
I never really found that to be an issue.
Then again, I don't usually leave my journal in the oven, so
it's usually fine. It's funny that you mentioned
that. That's how people talk about
those friction pens. I don't come frictions with the
friction ones. People like these are so great
because they erase, but then people use them in like
different types of journals and they're like, oh, I left my
journal in the car and it got too hot and my writing went away
and I had to stick my journal inside of the freezer to try to
get it back. And I was like, that's not worth
it to me. I don't care.
But then at the same time, I feel like it is a very off rare
thing that it ever would get that hot or you would leave your
journal in the car where that would happen.
But I just always, always think about that scenario where I was
just like, no, like Rocket book, because the whole idea there is
that you use them and then you take a picture of them with the
app and then you erase it and there's only like a handful of
pages inside of there. That's where I hear it the most
that people use the Rocket Books and then they do the same thing
and they they stick it in the freezer.
Jess like that seems silly to put a book in a freezer because
you accidentally lost your writing.
So not worth it for me. I don't need to erase my pens
that badly. I.
Don't know, putting it in the freezer just reminds me those
people who, like, try and freeze their credit cards in ice, which
I mean, like with the rise of online shopping, probably
doesn't really work as much anymore.
But not at all. Yeah, I think that the thermal
printer, that would probably be one, like, I just, I know that
you can get your different types of paper that it can stick on so
you can do different colors and everything like that, but I just
don't get as much use out of mine anymore.
I'm probably going to give mine away.
I've always wanted one to be honest with you because I see so
many do them, but I know that those thermal printer companies
also reach out to a lot of creators too to try to get them
to do it. And if you have reached out to
me, it's just that the the offer is just not something that I'm
interested in or they're asking for like ridiculous amount of
deliverables for nothing essentially for like a $50
printer. I was like, if I really wanted
you that bad, I would just buy it myself.
So that's one of those things where like I could have had one
just not selling myself to the thermal paper devil to to get
it. Yeah, it is a bit like that.
I like if I wanted it enough, I'd get it myself.
That's I say that to myself. But it was like, would you
though? Because there are plenty of
things that you want enough, but you just don't buy them.
And I don't know if it's because I'm like, oh, well, eventually,
maybe at some point the opportunity will come along to
work with people who have that item and then I don't have to
buy it for myself. Like we had that happen with my
cricket. Vogel bought me a cricket for my
birthday and it sat in a box unused for like 2 1/2 years.
And then the people at cricket reached out and said, hey, can
we send you a cricket? I'm like, sure.
Vocal was not very impressed. So now you have two crickets.
No, I ended up selling the one that he got me because it was
like the the model down because it had been like 2 and a half
years at that point and just got like the disapproving like.
You're like, but technically we saved money.
Yeah, I was like, we made it back.
Kind of like, yeah, not not a great consolation prize.
I did feel a little guilty about that, but I have at least used
this cricket four times, which I think counts.
Well worth it. Well worth it.
Yeah, that's great. Let's not do the math on how
much that is per cut. All righty Mark, what would be
your next regrettable purchase? The only fountain pen that I
have ever regretted buying is this right Trek 1 and This is
why I saw all of my favorite pen friends talking about this.
It's a very inexpensive retractable pen and the reason I
regret it. And if you're on YouTube, you'll
see this. If not, I will describe it.
When you push it up, there's a the drawer essentially that that
allows the nib to come out is on the right side of the pen.
I am a left-handed person. It literally blocks me from
seeing what I'm writing as I'm writing it because it's it's
that big. So I have other retractable
pens. But The thing is, is that that
little door that opens up to release and kind of seal it in
is on the inside of the pen. So you never ever see that
thing. You only see the nib coming out.
So this is the regret because while it wasn't expensive, it is
just I don't use it honestly because I can't see what I'm I'm
writing. I have to literally like lay on
top of my notebook to like peek on the other side to make sure
I'm actually writing what I'm writing.
So it is one of those things. It's here, it's inexpensive, it
does sit on my desk. It's something to grab sometimes
if I need to, but I usually don't go for this because it
literally impedes me from seeing what I'm writing.
The other really funny thing about this, and it's more about
now the comedy of it, when I bought this pen, it literally
says retractable fountain pen and warning, do not put your
finger on the nib cover to prevent stabbing.
It's on the pen. It was on the outside of the
packaging, on the inside of the packaging, and on every single
ink cartridge that came as well. It's basically a death tool that
they have to warn you against. And I am a firm believer in this
and I know this. I used to work for a power tool
company. You only have to add some of
those warnings if someone has injured themselves.
So the fact that they had to put this over top of every article
of this pen makes me feel like that happened a lot.
I do love how many warnings there must have been like to
actually how many issues or incidents have happened like 0
days without incident. New label on pen like Oh dear.
How much ink poisoning do we provide this year?
How many people wrote us back and left the Amazon review?
One star. I mixed my ink and blood because
of this pen, you know? My fingers are now green and
it's all your pens fault. All right, Jess, what's your
next regret? So this one, like I, I don't
even know why I got it because it's not like I was going to use
it anyways. I think it was, again, it's the
marketing. That's how they get you and
everybody on the on the interwebs, on the on the
Youtubes and the Instagrams was using it.
I'm like, oh, it looks so cool. I must have one.
Why? I don't paint, but it was a
paintbrush cleaner. Very cool.
Used it once, got rid of it. I want one wait is it the one
that has the reservoir on it and the whole I want 1 so bad for no
reason at all Don't. Get it?
It's so unnecessary. It's a cool concept.
If you're the kind of person who paints a lot, then like maybe.
But effectively what it is, is that we have an upside down
reservoir of water which then attaches to a little channel
which has a little pool at the end.
And the little pool has a plastic stopper that you can
press a button and then that stopper pulls down and the ink
or like paint water or whatever, kind of like drains through.
That's the general gist of it. The issue that I found is one
all of that water just gets stored in the bottom, so you
have to go and empty it and a kind of like regular interval,
otherwise it'll get really bloody manky too because of the
rubber stopper at the bottom of the little pool.
That doesn't really clean very well unless you're quite
aggressive with your brushes because it only gives you a very
small portion of water. If you have paint filled
paintbrush, then you're gonna have to flush it quite a few
times to get all of that paint out of there.
But while you're doing that, you're literally just painting
onto the little rubber stopper. So the little rubber stopper
gets kind of manky quite quickly unless you're, you know, pre
cleaning your brush before you use the paintbrush cleaner,
which feels like it kind of defeats the point.
But the biggest issue is that I don't paint like I don't I never
use paint. I don't like things that make my
take too long in my journal. If I do paint, it's usually just
gold watercolors and it's very fine touches.
So I don't even need to clean up my paintbrush because I'm not
changing colours. So why I thought this was
necessary to have in my mustache, but I had it for at
least a week before I got rid of it.
Just it's so funny you say this item because I literally almost
bought one last week because I've seen them for so long in so
many ads. And I was like, Mark, you know
that this would be great when you're doing your ink swatches
and you could just like easily clean that off and not have to
change the water so often in the little glass containers that I
use. But then I like started getting
in real deep and I started actually doing research and like
how much water does it hold and how much space is actually in
that little, little thing? And I was like, it doesn't
actually make sense because it's so shallow of water that my
Swatch items that I use for my ink wouldn't actually fit in
there to rinse off. So I actually talked myself out
of it, but I almost instant bought it because I was like,
it's time mark. It's super inexpensive, like
you'll totally use it. So I'm glad to hear that I
didn't because what you just said because that essentially
would be it. And also I probably would have
been like pressing the little button down would've been
flushing itself constantly and just I don't know, but it does
does look really cool. Yeah, I think the hard part also
is that it comes in parts, so you have to like simple it
yourself. I'm like, this is an IKEA.
I didn't sign up for this. And it's like these tiny, tiny
screws because to, you know, press the button down to release
the little plastic pad thing or whatever it is on a little
spring system. So you kind of screw it into
itself with a little spring. So when you push it down, it
actually kind of like comes away.
It's a cool concept. And I think that if you painted
with very small paint brushes with very minimal amounts of
paint and it was really kind of just watercolor based on
whatever, like maybe, but at the same time, I feel like a jar of
water is going to be sufficient. Yeah, it's probably better in
the long run, but it is cool to have a little flushable
mechanism though in theory. I'm thinking like could you just
make your own one at home like with a little like hamster like
water bottle feeder or something like that?
Yeah, I you could probably get one of the like the little dog
bowls that like rinses itself out and like refreshes itself
often. I'm sure that would do the same
exact thing. But then again, you have some
little like dog water bowl on your desk that you're like,
well, when am I going to fill this up?
And could I have just filled the container that the water was in
instead of this whole thing and spilling it?
It's probably just a disaster waiting to happen around here.
I feel like, yeah, you just need like a three jar system or
something. You've got like the first rinse,
the second rinse, the third, and then it just kind of like goes
through each of those or something.
I actually have a three jar system.
When I clean out my fountain pen just I have the one that does
all the ink that I'm squirting out of the pen goes into.
And then I have my middle one which where I suck the ink up
out of and then spit it into the first jar.
And that one gets a little dirty just because the ink is flowing.
And then once it's clean, then I use my third jar for the
cleaning water and then it gets sat to dry.
So there is a process to that. Now why I don't mind doing that
instead of those other things, I don't know.
It's good to work with the tidy pen.
It is. It's absolutely important to do
that. What would be another one of
your regrets Spark? All right, so I went through
this phase, Jess, where I felt like every pen that I had had to
be sitting on the holder. And so I actually did like a
whole research project and I found a bunch and the ones that
I couldn't send back were these cute little crabs and they do
hold. They are adorable and they are
so cool. I never put pens on these and
these again have become a behind me shelf.
I don't because I cannot for the life of me throw them away.
So I should just use them more. But the problem is, is like I
have like really nice holders instead with like velvet on the
inside and things like that. So when I'm like, do you sit
your pen inside of a nice velvety thing or put it on a
plastic crab? I always shoot for the nicer
thing because I spent more money on it.
Again, it's a silly little thing and they, you know, maybe cost
like 5 bucks for two of them. But look at those.
You can't throw away a little crab pen holder.
Jess, look how cute they. Are no One of my favorite memes
is mess with the crab. Oh, you get the stab.
Oh, and it's a crab holding a knife.
So I'm like, you need to keep the crabs.
Yeah, I'll start putting knives on them instead.
Maybe that'll just do it more than the pens.
I don't know. They're not.
They're also not very sturdy and like the little stabby claws
also are not very thin. They need like a very little
pen. Like I'd have to put like my
little tiny, like Lily Put, which is the smallest pen ever
in the world. Like that would work.
There we go. I found a new holder for my Lily
put. Perfection.
Beautiful all. Right, Jess, what do you got?
So another one that I'm gonna, I'm gonna say that it's not
necessarily a regret yet, but it might be if I don't put the
time, effort and energy into practice using it.
And that would be the gyro cutter.
It's effectively a craft knife where the head of the craft
knife spins so that you can kind of, you know, cut squiggles and
circles and cut around things. It's supposed to be good for
fussy cutting, but the blade is not.
It's not to say the blade isn't sharp like if I took my finger
to so it'd probably be an Ouch. I'm not going to try it.
But anyway, it's just compared to my regular craft knife, which
has a very thin, very fine blade.
It doesn't doesn't have anything close to that.
And it's probably so that it actually does spin around and
you know, you can do those kind of motions and whatnot.
But I would like it to not not to say I would like it to work
better. I would like to be better able
to use it so that I can do kind of like fussy cutting around pet
tapes and stuff. Because a lot of the PET florals
that I have from like the Washi tape shop and stuff, they are
individual florals that I have to go and fussy cut myself and
it would be nice to not have to do that.
So it sounds like user error is the reason you regret it.
Yeah, I don't have the skills. It's like when you buy a tool,
thinking like this is going to change the game for me.
This is going to be the thing that turns me into an artist.
And then you get it. You're like, Oh no, I'm just the
same person with the same level of skills with a fancy tool.
It's like your water brush cleaner, right?
Literally, yeah. It's like aspirational purchases
like this will be the thing that turns me into a painter.
I'm like, no, this turns you into a person who doesn't paint,
who has a tool for painters. I see those gyro cutters.
They do look very cool. And as much as I love collecting
tools, that is the one thing where I just think to myself,
you're not going to use it, Mark.
Like I am petrified to cut pages out of my journal.
I have done it maybe twice in my entire life and I've regretted
it both of those times. So I don't think fussy cutting,
which I've never heard of ever before in the entire world.
I feel like that's just that Jesse ISM again.
Oh, it's. Not that one.
That one's not, I can't take credit for that.
That's that is a planet thing. It's just, I don't think you'd
do it, but it's effectively just like going and cutting very
close and around an item that is usually kind of a weird shape.
I feel like that would be like a derogatory term you would call
somebody like you fussy gutter. You're a fussy gutter.
That is actually probably that's what I will call some people who
are like very like uppity about their journals and stuff like
that. Like you're such a fussy gutter.
That's fine, you can sit at my table because I am that person.
All right, Jess. Well, my last thing I have on my
list, this is gonna cause maybe a little concern, and I'm sure
plenty of people will reach out to me on this.
I regret buying as many A5 notebooks from Archer and Olive
as I have. And I know people, they might
there might have audibly gasped when I say this, but the reason
is that maybe there's people that have more.
I have 60 unused A5 bullet journals right now just from
Archer and Olive. That doesn't actually count the
other brands. So it might be a handful more
that's just from Archer and Olive that I will likely not
use, period. But, and this is where people
start to reach out and say Mark, but you can send those books to
me. I'll use them.
I can't because they have vintage designs on them from
Archer and Olive that will never be released ever again, and if
for whatever reason I'm in the mood to use it, I won't be able
to. Therefore I also can't get rid
of them. Oh, I mean, my stash is a little
bigger than yours. I mean, mine's including any
notebook. So like we have like Bullet
journal and what maybe one other Lt. 1917 and a couple from Kumar
stationary and Crafts and like all these other places.
But my current unused A5 total is 108.
But I do use my A fives, so I'm not like too sad about it.
Like I know that they're going to get used as like R&D
notebooks or everyday journals or anything like that.
So it doesn't really worry me. But you don't really use A fives
very often. Not often, every now and again
I'll say like oh I'm going to go back to a smaller size.
I've been working in B fives or squares for as long as I have.
But I think that I've been come just a bigger notebook person.
But it also is very lifestyle driven to being a remote worker.
Now I have the basically unlimited space for AB5 live or
a square notebook could be open in my space at all times versus
when I was commuting and I was at like a shared desk space or
in meetings with, you know, 15 other people around you in this
much arm room, I could only fit kind of an A5 inside of my
space. So it's very much like time and
place. So who knows, maybe something
will change in the future, hopefully not where I have to go
back into the office more than once a month.
But if that happens, maybe I would go back to something like
that, but it would be really difficult for me, I feel like to
do that. But I agree with you.
Maybe it's just I have to let go of the fact of that, like I
won't be able to necessarily maybe use them for a bullet
journal. I might change my mind, but
maybe use them for R&D journals because I do like to get kind of
stuff out in that spaces. So I might eventually.
But then that's the problem is I will sometimes buy journals to
be research and development journals so that I'm just kind
of offsetting myself further and further back from when I'm
actually going to use them. No, that's fair.
I do wish that earlier in my kind of journaling journey I had
tried other sizes because I am very much an A5 inclined person.
I prefer working in an A5 for the most part.
I do love the square. It's like kind of like if this
is my A5 love, then my square love is like just underneath it
and then B5 is like way at the bottom.
Goodbye, no. But the problem is just I guess
when we started bullet drilling, which was right around the same
time, I don't know that there were many square notebooks out
there. I think honestly, the only one
that I ever maybe remember seeing was from Ferris Wheel
Press and those were way out of my price range early on.
And I don't know that I would have necessarily liked it.
I'm not sure. I haven't ever used a Ferris
Wheel Press notebook. I've only used their inks and
pens, but that was the only thing that I saw.
But it was when I was on the Archer and Olive design team at
the time. Now considered the the
ambassador team is when they started to roll those out.
And I will never forget my first one.
It was my it was, it was that moment, you know, that aha
moment when you just held it and I created it.
I was like this is exactly what I want.
This is the perfect space between an A5 and like AB 5.
This is glorious. This is heaven in a 8 by 8 inch
surface. See, I remember getting my first
square notebook and I think it was again from being on the
ambassador team and then like sending you your welcome package
or whatever. And I looked at them like, fuck,
am I supposed to do with this now?
Now I love it. Now I love squares, but at the
time I was just like brother. Alright Jess, what's your final
regret? I feel like this one is gonna
get me cancelled by at least some people.
So like, if this is your favorite supply, just no.
I don't think it's a bad product.
I completely understand the merits of it and I know why
people like them as much as they do.
But when I first started journaling, I mean, still, but
when I first started journaling, everybody was using these,
these, this was the thing like you had to get your Lt. 1917 and
you had to get this thing and that was going to be like your
combo for doing your journaling and whatnot.
I'm nervous what you're about to say.
I know. I know that people like them,
but I just, I haven't used them all that much.
The extent to which I got any kind of use out of them was when
I was a teacher, and that was just because I felt guilty that
I hadn't used them. So I tried to use them.
Jess, what is it? Jess, what is it we have to
know? It's the mild signers and I
just, I don't, I don't get the appeal really.
Like they're cute and I, I have them on the desk is like a
pretty decorative thing, but like I just don't use them at
all. And I'm a completionist though,
So I have to get them. I had to get the full set of the
rainbow ones and I had to go get the brush tip ones as well.
And because they had that set where it's like a different
color in Japan versus in America, I had to get my
American friend to send me one of the copper ones because I
didn't have it. Why I don't use them?
I know this about myself, but I must.
I had to have the pen, I had to have that pen, and now I have
two of that pen and I'm not going to use that pen, but I've
got 2 of that pen. I mean, I understand the
completionist nature. I mean, we've got all these
beautiful ones that we got from Go Wild.
And I'm not just saying this because they sponsored me at Go
Wild. I mean, obviously I'm a major
fan of Mildliners and Zebra Forever and Always.
I'm very appreciative to them. But I was the same way with it.
The thing for me though with with them and I will say is
there are a whole lot of colors, right?
We all know this because like you said, they have a rainbow
and you just like want more. But then you're like, but I, I'm
pretty sure I already have several of them.
So that's one of those items I talked about taking to work
where I'm like, who wants free stationary?
And they're like, Mark, why are all of these highlighters purple
and pink? Like, well, I do work with them
and they send me a new pack every time we do work together
for whatever I was like. So I have several of these, but
I understand where you're coming from though.
But like they're so great. They're it's like 2 peas and a
pod Notebook journaling and mild liners.
Like I can't think about them without them, but they kind of
go together. I remember getting my first set.
I was so excited. I'm like, Oh my God, this is it.
I'm like a real journaler now. And then after like a week and a
half, I was just like, I think I'm gonna get Tombos.
So I went and got the full set of Tombos instead.
And to be honest, I use my tombos to death.
Like there are multiple of those that I've had to replace
multiple times because I do use the ever loving heck out of them
and thus they get dried out. I replace them.
I have my full collection very happy.
I have used maybe one mild liner to the point where it kind of
needed replacing. And then I just didn't replace
it because I'm like, I've got the the colour, I've got the
cap, it's in the rainbow looks cute, but I don't use it.
So I don't see the point of replacing it.
The biggest thing that I had about my liner early on, it was
just until recently, is that anytime you use them, you had to
usually highlight first and then write over top of it.
And I know that turned a lot of people off, but now I like can't
stop talking about the serasa mark on pen that Zebra put out.
Yeah, that's my that's my go to writing pen right now.
Yeah, it literally solves that problem for mild liners, a
reverse engineering. They were like, oh mild liners
don't work with any of our own pens even it smears everything
and they're like how about a pen that you can now use those with
and that now is the same for me. It's my go to because anything
that I I want to do that, whether it is mildliner or a
highlighter or anything I despise, it makes me physically
gag whenever I like write something and then highlight
over with like a yellow 1 and it turns out ugly muddy highlighter
color and you're just like burn the book.
We don't need this anymore. That's so foul and grody
looking. I hate it.
But that is the only kind of regret that I kind of had to
using them early on was was that.
But now that they have this, I've used them a lot and I don't
even show them in my bullet journal all the time too,
because I'll also just use it on whatever I'm writing a note on
around here. It's just they're super fun and
versatile. I like them a lot.
Yeah mines literally getting used for desk decoration.
Looks very cute but I don't ever take them out of the bucket,
especially because of the bucket they're in to to to get pens out
of them I would have to disrupt the rainbow and not about that
business. No, that took too long.
I mean, for me it wouldn't matter because I don't even know
the rainbow color in the right order that they would need to go
in. They all kind of look the same
to me. I mean, I will say the one thing
that I do love about them though, even though I know what
you're saying here is they're one of the only marker brands
that actually have the color name on them.
So for me, I've also used them a lot because a lot of them don't
have that. So I don't know the difference
between a lot of the yellows and green markers and some of those
highlighter packs because they do look alike and the the
purples and the Blues like I talk about too.
I've always appreciated that they've always put the color
names on their markers because that to me means a lot.
I know that's probably a very sad, weird thing to do, but from
a like, you know, accommodation standpoint for us Colorbind
float out there, it is definitely super helpful.
So I have another kind of affinity for them because
they're the only ones that were there for me when I needed.
Them. No, that's fair.
I mean, I'm not even colorblind. I just find sometimes in certain
pen brands, especially if they've got quite a large
lineup, if it doesn't have a number or a color name or
something like that, it's very hard to figure out which one is
which. But I don't think you'd really
be able to get away with using my ones because mine are
Japanese. So unless you're Japanese is
good. Yeah, they've got a name on it,
but it's like Mayurudo Blue kind of a thing, and you have to be
able to read it. So like.
So I've had the same thing with the Serasa vintage ones.
Those are also I'm guessing in Japanese or whatever.
I actually use Google, the Google app with a translate with
the camera and it scans and it'll tell me what color it is
and I will Swatch. And I actually keep a Swatch
with them. And I've labeled my pens too as
well. So I know what color they are
because a lot of them do look alike, like some of the vintage
Browns and Reds kind of in that space alike.
But I literally will use that anytime.
And then someone just told me about on Instagram the other
day, I was talking about this. She said that her husband is
colorblind as well, and he uses an app to identify colors.
So it's just on his phone. And if he's ever not sure, he
uses it. And I was like, this is genius
because you know how often I've gone, like shopping and I'll be
like, hey, you know, wife and kids, what do you think of this
shirt? And they're like, so you wear
purple now I'm like, this is clearly blue.
They're like that. That is clearly very purple.
And I'm like, OK, so I'm going to download this app and it's
going to help me live my life to the fullest.
Now that sounds like a really cool accessibility tool, but
I'm, I, I enjoyed talking about this.
It made me feel slightly less bad about the things that I've
kind of bought into my stash that maybe I didn't really need
to have there or whatnot. And has also got me like really
motivated to do a declutter of my office to get rid of some of
these things. So not me at all.
I'm still, I'm gonna put these all right back in the same exact
spot that I pulled them from for this video because I could
never, ever get rid of things. Jess, I don't know who you think
you are. Definitely not a planner pal if
you throw things away, that's for damn sure.
And it's OK if decluttering is your favorite sport, like me,
then it's fine. You can sit at my table.
And if you like hoarding everything and never getting rid
of anything, you can come. Well, no, you're sorry.
You can't sit at my table. There's things on the seats in
the table you can stand around me.
Sorry. That's actually the the chair
for my emotional support. A fives.
You're not allowed to sit there. They just hold that well,
Plenary pals, we'd love to hear from you on the regrets that
maybe you have. And again, those regrets don't
have to be things that you don't love.
As you heard over and over again, not just for the safety
of cancer culture, but for the safety of just plenary pals
uniting all together. It can things that you love, but
maybe just aren't feeling as well.
So if you're watching on YouTube or you're listening on a
podcast, make sure to drop a comment and let us know what
those regrets are. You can also e-mail us Planner
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Instagram at Planner Pals Podcast and drop a note and let
us know what those regrets are. All right, Jess, what are we
talking about next time? In our next episode, because we
are getting to the end of the year, we're going to be doing an
end of year Planner Pals wrap up.
Having a look through what our kind of like best topics and
talking points were, the ones that resonate with you, the ones
that were our personal favorites.
Just having a think about maybe where is the Planner Pals going
next year? What kind of things do we have
to look forward to and. This episode's going to be fun
too, because when it comes out, it will technically still be 20
and 24 for me, but it'll be 2025 for you on the release date, so
that's going to be even more cool about it.
This is what's so cool about having friends across the world.
I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully you are too, planner
pals. But for today, thanks for
watching.