Ok, I'm in my midst of preparing for my exams, yet I keep checking some pen blogs and websites, and taking out my pens to 'test'. So what have you done--or do you do--that shows you're obsessed with pens? :lol:

You may be obsessed with pens if you:

Would rather buy a new pen than eat out.

Check the JetPens Forum before breakfast.

Surf the web for more pen blogs because you've read all the others.

Wish that the smell of a stationary store came as a perfume or cologne.

Have Pen and Stationary magazines in your bathroom as reading material.

Check JetPens.com for the New Arrivals before breakfast.

Can name all the colors that your favorite pen comes in, in order of manufacturer.

Have one of every color of every pen in every size that JetPens sells and you feel you don't have enough.

Have one of every color of every pen in every size that JetPens sells and you use a dime store pen to write with in order to preserve your collection.

Have one of every color of every pen in every size that JetPens sells and you 'pen test' them monthly just to see all the pretty colors.

Find yourself writing to people that you don't know because you've written to all your friends and family so much that they keep sending back your letters marked 'RETURN TO SENDER'.

Name your favorite pens.

Keep all your pens in special cases/pouches so that they don't touch one another.

Use your pens in rotation so you'll not use one up sooner than the others.

Have at least 2 refills for all your refillable pens on hand at all times so that you'll never have an empty pen.

Won't let anyone else use your pens, including your significant other.

Think that 'child proofing' your home means locking up all your precious pens.

Have a blog about pens (an pencils).

Spend your lunch money on a new pen, and are happy about it.

Take your date to a Pen Show.

Eat, drink and sleep pens all day and think that 24 hours a day is not enough time.

Name your children after pen companies.

Think that Mitsubishi only makes pens.

:wink:

I'm almost embarrassed to say this...

I keep checking the on-line pen stores for the new arrivals...
I copy the photos of the pens and pencils that I want, paste them into a paint program then print them out...
I bring my boxes/cases of pens and pencils into the computer room even though I may not use them...
I sit in front of the TV and write aimlessly about nothing...
I run a 'pen test' once a month...
I want to buy all my favorite pens in every color and size that they come in...
I get excited when I come across a new and attractive drafting pencil...
I search manufacturer's websites for information about my favorite pens/pencils...
When I buy pens/pencils on the Net I can't wait until the order arrives...
I get excited when the order finally arrives...
I have a blog about pens and pencils...

:roll:

If it's any consolation, I'm sure there are many who are similarly afflicted or worse out there :D Hey I just came across this yesterday, not sure if you've read it: http://sandscribbler.wordpress.com/2006/02/08/finding-the-right-pen-for-my-moleskine/

You may be obsessed with pens if:

You take family vacations to places that have a pen store that you have yet to visit.*

Your swimming pool is filled with Light Blue ink instead of water.

You wear the ink stain on your shirt pocket as a badge of honor.

You are on a first name basis with every employee in every pen and stationary store in a 100-mile radius of your house.

The mail person wants to know if you own stock in JetPens.

You have the local stationary and office supply stores phone numbers on speed dial.

Your wedding registry was at JetPens.

You have a photo of your favorite pen on your desk instead of your family.

Your idea of a good time is watching ink dry.

When you prick your finger you bleed red ink.

You can tell what pen someone is using from across the room.

Your Flickr Photostream consists entirely of pics of your favorite pens and pencils.

Your Facebook photos consist entirely of pics of your favorite pens and pencils.

You talk the receptionist at the doctors/dentists office out of their pen because you don’t have one with that particular drug manufacturer’s logo.

Your ‘ship came in’ but you missed it because you were at your favorite pen store.

You think that the perfect wedding gift is a matching pen and pencil set.

You have separate ‘His’ and ‘Hers’ pens.

You have more pens than your children have toys.

The dog chewed up your favorite pen, you buried it in a pencil box in the back yard, held a wake and mourned for 7 days.

For last Halloween you dressed your children as your favorite pens and it brought tears to your eyes.

All the Christmas ornaments on your Christmas tree are all your empty non-refillable pens.

When someone invites you to a ‘bring your own’ party you show up with all your favorite pens.

The shipper at JetPens knows your address by heart.

Your Home Page is the JetPens Forum.

Your Home Page is JetPens.com

* Thanks, Seth

you pick up every abandoned pen you find, no matter how many you have or how crappy it is.
you save used up pens for spare parts to make repairs on your working pens "just in case." of course, you rarely have to do this, since you take such good care of your pens anyway.
you have so many pens you shouldn't buy for yourself anymore, so you buy your friends pens! you spend hours thinking about which pen is best for each person.
when your pen (or your friend's!) stops working you drop whatever you're doing to spend ten minutes using every trick you know to fix it.
you get a job at a doctor's office for the pens (I honestly did this!)
you can name every major pen manufacturer by heart.
you notice when people in your classes use different pens than usual.
when you go on a journey, you agonize over how many pens to bring, and then which ones. not being able to bring liquid ink pens on planes breaks your heart.
you reread something you wrote a year or two (or more!) ago. you know exactly which make of pen you used.

Hey you're both great at this! :D

Check out a few pen shops every week, even though you've been to them a few days ago.

Plot which non-stationery shop to visit, just in case it sells an unusual pen or that elusive perfect pen.

Squirm and feel generally disgusted when you use a pen that falls below your 'standards.'

Compulsively search the net for more blogs on pens. Mentally will the usual bloggers to post new articles.

Use a search engine or comparison shopping website to read reviews about pens.

Poke around the house for 'unowned' pens to adopt, even though you would never dream of taking other people's things.

Think the greatest love is shown by giving or receiving a pen or voucher for stationery shop.

Spend hours testing pens at the shop and be surprised by how fast and pleasantly time has passed.

Metternich and holgalee,

Those are great! How did I miss them??? I want to use them (maybe with a few mods) on my blog! I WILL give you both full credit for them. Is that OK? :wink:

Onelonegunman, go ahead! I was thinking of selecting some from you and Metternich too! :lol:

By the way, here's more:

Take apart your pens to reassemble into the perfect franken-pen with best tip, ink, grip, weight and barrel.

Contemplate working in a stationery shop so that you can play with pens all day.

Spend hours testing which pen to use for exams. End up bringing too many because they're all equally good and your mood will dictate which to use.

Loan only the more 'inferior' pens in your possession in case your friend or colleague 'soils' or loses your better pen.

Thanks, and fine with me, go ahead, select away. :wink:

you both have my permission :)

one more: you can't even go to the dollar store without wandering by the stationery!

"Have one of every color of every pen in every size that JetPens sells and you use a dime store pen to write with in order to preserve your collection."

i like ALL the signs except for the one above.

i think this one is the saddest. if you can, just write with your pens and dont worry about preserving your collection. when you die, people will most certainly not think much of your collection. i know my loved ones wont. so USE your pens. ADORE THEM. ENJOY them while you live.

i threw away all the shitty company pens, hotel pens and bics and all ballpoints that were in my house. i dont care if my s.o. uses my special pens. but dammit, i will enjoy the ones i have in my lifetime.

DONT SAVE YOUR PENS. use and enjoy them!!

just my own opinion. you may disagree!

For the most part, I have to totally agree with Melonpan. I've gotten to a point where I only want to use "good" pens. So why not? Life's short, and we might as well use the pens we enjoy while we're here. Though I still have and use some cheapie pens at times, they *must* write nicely or I won't use them at all. Why settle for second class.....use the best and savour it! Same with other things in life, but definitely with pens!

Chill, guys! It's just a joke, a poke at ourselves. I don't necessarily agree with every single one of the sayings but they are still funny, and that is what I meant my postings to be, light hearted comedy, nothing more.

FYI I do use my pens on a daily basis, not all of them of course, but I have a selection I choose from and I switch them around. But I can identify with a lot of the sayings, some of the ones that I wrote and some that others have written. I'm sure that there are those in the world who would disagree with you on this one. So what? It takes all kinds to make up the world and that's what makes life so interesting. 8)

Yeap, most of what we wrote, especially onelonegunman, was in half-jest. :D I had a good time chuckling! Almost all my pens cost less than $2, and if I lose one, it's no big deal at all! BTW, I've compiled some of our points here: http://toyingwithlight.wordpress.com/

You may be obsessed with pens if:

You love the smell of ink in the morning.

You refill your non-refillable ink pens.

People know what you've been doing when they see all the different colored inks on your fingers.

When you buy a new pen you savor the moment... for several hours.

When you meet new people, and they pull out photos of their kids, you pull out photos of your favorite pens.

When people scoff and call you a 'penaholic' you take it as a compliment.

You keep your 'traveling pens' in a pocket protector and you use it. You double up when your shirt has two breast pockets.

You belong to every Pen Society on the Net.

You subscribe to every pen magazine available.

Every time you hear the mail truck stop at your house you rush out to see if the latest issue one of your pen magazines has arrived. You are chest fallen when it' not there.

You know that one day you will have bought at least one of every pen out there and you live in fear of the day there are no more new pens to buy.

When pens go on sale at the local department or pen store you go buy some, even thought you have some already, because it's such a good deal.

You give away some of your excess pens just so you can go buy more.

You give away your excess pens so you'll have room to store the new pens you just bought.

You search the Net for just the right pen display box/case to store your 'babies'.

You think that making an executive decision is deciding which pen to use.

You know that you have an addition to pens and or pencils and you just don't care.

When someone jokingly says that there is a cure for your addiction you get paranoid.

You begin to think of the people behind the store counter as your 'supplier'.

When you go to a doctor's/lawyer's/dentist's office and they have 'give-away' pens you can't just take one.

You think that one of those pens on a loop of cord is actually a necklace, and you wear it as such.

In case of fire you have a contingency plan: Each family member is assigned a different lot of pens to save.

You don't like a particular pens color/shape/nib/etc., but you buy it anyway because it's part of the set.

All the neighborhood kids know you as the 'Pen Man/Lady".

You think that a personal sacrifice is giving up one of your pen shopping days to spend time with the family.

You don't mind walking the dog because the walk takes you buy your favorite office supply store.

A day without a new pen is like a day without sunshine.

When you lose a favorite pen you cry... and cry... and cry...

The only thing that can console you when you lose a favorite pen is to buy two more of the same pen.

You have a night light in the room where you store your pens so your 'babies' wont get scared at night when you're not there.

You now realize that your obsession/addiction is boarding on mania and you still don't care.

Your significant other wants you to see a psychiatrist about your "problem' and you think they're crazy.

Frankenpen! yeah, i've been guilty of that. i finally decided to go through all my crapo pens and put them in a box under my bed. it's the treasure box for my kids when they've done something really great. they are almost as bad as i am. but the way i know i am absolutely obsessed with my pens, is that in class, i will leave my laptop if i have to run to the bathroom, but my pencil case comes with me. how sad is that?? and i definately notice what pens people in class are using. this has led to some bad situations with guys thinking i was checking them out. i didn't have the heart to tell them i was checking out their writing utensil... one day i came in the room to find my fiance doing the bills with a signo bit .38 and about had a heart attack. also, i have taken a whole day to go to every store in town that sells pens just to check out what they had.

I've seriously been thinking for a long time that I should take a day to hit up every college bookstore in the area just to see what variety there is available. that, however, would require a car and some gas...

okay, and one more, this actually happened over thanksgiving: you get a big bag of pens from vacation and this worries the TSA agent in the xray so they hand inspect your bag, and you're not worried about whether you miss your flight, getting interviewed, etc, you're just concerned they'll take some or scatter them all over...

When a family member/friend goes to a foreign country (specifically a country such as Japan or Taiwan) the first thing you say is "Bring me home pens! Here's the kind I want!" You don't ask for jewelry, electronics, or anything high-priced, but you want a lot of pens.

This is what happened to me---my brother was going to Taiwan, and he said he wanted to bring me something back. He asked my dress size, thinking to bring back a piece of clothing. I told him to bring me home some pens, though I hadn't been introduced to pens like the Hi-Tec C yet. He brought me home several,of the .25 mm size and kept one for himself, and I'm hooked now, and so is he.

Also a sign of addiction? If your company sends you away on business to another country, the first thing you do is start looking up pen shops, and pack light so that you'll have plenty of space for them on the trip home.

I know I don't have nearly as many pens as most here, but I'm working on a collection. Now, if I just didn't have to spend money on stuff like food and other necessities...

Yea, that's a good sign of pen addiction. But if you were really addicted then while in the other country you'd buy a large tote bag and fill it up with pens! That way you not only don't have to pack light but you acquire a new piece of luggage as well as some new pens.

Yea, if I didn't have to eat and pay bills I could afford a lot more pens and drafting pencils... Sad, so sad. :(

You got that right! I keep telling myself that eating is over-rated, but when the lights go out because the power company shuts off the lights, I guess pens wouldn't be much use!

It's hard to write in the dark... :lol:

Yeah, I couldnt get enough info online about them so I had to start my own blog that I could write about them on. :)