#stationery declutter

Today I veered a little off the original plan and shredded my old travel journals. My thoughts are not that important that they should be left for my son to deal with after I die. They're also extremely cringe.

I did cut out the photos, and then pasted them in a notebook. The photos are nice to have, and not as cringe.

Welp. Time to put up that ad for the baby bath.

Pared down the plush toys. Found a rabies plushy (that is to say, a plush shaped like the virus) in there. I do not remember when I got the rabies plushy. But it's cute.

Tomorrow I will put up an ad for the baby bathtub in the local buy nothing group. It's an alright tub, but our bathroom is simply too small to accommodate it. We bought it after too much pressure from relatives even though we knew it would be of little use to us.

I tossed a couple of poor quality notepads into the paper recycling bin after years of telling myself I'll use them.

The baby's play mat turned out to be of little interest to the baby. It's a hit with the cats though, so it stays.

I went ahead and bought myself some things that I wanted for a long time, a finer nib and a converter pump for my fountain pen. (I will buy the ink bottle/s and fully transition to refilling when I run out of cartridges.) It's not a huge purchase but it feels like it is, maybe because the upfront cost looks like a lot compared to a 20-pack of cheap ballpoint pens.

And I already have a lot of stray ballpoint pens at home, pens that I bought before my tastes changed and pens that I got as promotional swag and pens that I have no clue how they got here. I recently went over them and threw away the ones that were no longer working, and still I am left with too many.

The ones that still work I do my best to use up, even while I do most of my writing at home with the fountain pen, but the writing experience is so miserable in comparison... I know it's privileged of me to say, but if you can afford to buy one good quality, comfortable, refillable pen for your home? Do that, and get one simpler pen for the road if you don't want to risk losing the good pen, and that's really all you need (assuming you're not an ink artist).