LOL. I'm 26 years old and I still buy those $.66 marble composition notebooks to do all my writing and noting in. I love them. Ever since elementary school I have not been able to use anything else for note taking or writing. For serious. #theonion
I use moleskines. I frequently shop for less pretentious-looking notebooks, but until i find them, these have the thickest paper.
For kids with ADHD like myself, notebooks are a godsend when it comes to writing shit down before I forget it. As such, mine are full of shopping lists, to do lists, random lyrics i like, half-written letters and so on and so forth.
I admit I have one of these. It's in the garage in the stack of crap gifts from my sister who only gives me presents that she wants to ask for back later, which requires that I not use them. Last birthday, she gave me an easel(I don't paint, but she does) and one Christmas, she gave me earrings(my ears aren't pierced but hers are) #theonion
Okay, this guy I know (a former teacher of mine) bought himself a nice fancy moleskin and do you want to know what he decided to use it for?? He is illustrating the end of days, starting from when Obama was elected. In grave detail. He said it took him months to decide what was worthy and that's what it was. I wanted to slap him in the face with it but that's not fair to the notebook.
Personally, I use free spiral notebooks my husband steals from work because these stupid things won't stay flat when I sketch and they close so I lose my place all the time. #theonion
@abagatelle: I only realised just how much of a problem this was when I moved out of home and discovered that over the years I had accumulated dozens on unused cute notebooks, ranging from a pristine Hollie Hobby one I was given as a kid to a beautiful marblepaper covered one that I think was a 20th birthday present. I'm a journalist, i go through top-bound spiraxes on a monthly basis. My notebook collection is the paper equivalent of the "good" china. #theonion
@Little Green Frog (Wise Latina): I used to use magic markers but would get so high off them I'd have to write myself a note not to use them again. The "don't use the magic" notes confused me, naturally. #theonion
i love re-reading my teenage notebooks every year or so. it is consistently shocking how deeply i felt at age 14. i would kind of kill to be that naive again, sometimes. #theonion
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For kids with ADHD like myself, notebooks are a godsend when it comes to writing shit down before I forget it. As such, mine are full of shopping lists, to do lists, random lyrics i like, half-written letters and so on and so forth.
The spine sucks, tho. #theonion
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Moleskines and tea are what I would call "aspirational". #theonion
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