I’ll keep this short: I’ve invested hundreds of hours and thousands of pounds writing the posts on this site. I enjoy what I do, and I’m proud of it. The emails I get from readers tell me that you enjoy the blog, too. But I need a bit of help to keep it going.
You may have noticed, and hated, the generic WordAds on this site over the past couple of months. I agree that it delivers a terrible user experience. So let’s try something new: a donate button.
I have no idea how well this will work. Please share your feedback. And thank you in advance for your support!
Are you a retailer or stationery brand? Get in touch if you’d like to talk sponsorships.
Done. I hope that it works for you. As your blog brought lot of joy to me.
And over time saved me lot of money. Somehow reading your blog scratches itch, so I am happy to read about them, but no longer eager to buy more pens. And instead of spending money on some mid-tier pens I have decided that in future (for some bigger achievement) I will treat myself with either nice Visconti or Conid which will be my grail pen.
In meantime I have already discovered that with introducing new pens I am neglecting older ones. So my modest collection of 2 TWSBIs (Eco and 580 AL), 2 Waterman Experts, Lamy 2000 and Franklin Christoph Ice Demonstrator is enough and even now already those Watermans are getting dust. As Lamy 2000 is simply much better pen and I really like its styling and those TWSBIs although cheaper pens are much more fun to write with. Although I love Franklin Christoph I have eye-dropped it and it is simply not practical for common use – so this one also writes very little. From this perspective adding more good pens would simply make matters worse. So instead I will get one more expensive pen I crave for and slowly get rid of those I am not using – probably I will hand them down to my sons. Now they are too young for such pens but in few years they will be ready.
Kamil, thank you for the kind words! And for your support. I appreciate it.
I have been through the same journey as you (as I’ve written about many times!). It helps, I find, to pass on the pens you no longer use, as you say. As well as selling them (I sold four today) I gift them to my daughter to grow into, and to friends I’m trying to convert! I try to keep my collection under 20 pens — that way I have at least a fighting chance of using everything once in a while. I’m a big fan of the Eco and the 2000, so I know exactly what you mean.
My only warning to you: getting your grail (and both Conid and Visconti are fine choices) will unlikely be the end. I received my second Conid yesterday. But I completely support your decision to get one pen you really, really want rather than a load of cheaper pens. Just be sure you pick the right one!
Also done, very good value for money.
Thank you sir 🙂
Done.
You have a wonderful website and I’m very happy to support those who bring me value and joy. I loathe advertising and tracking greatly and I hope this method works out for you, and us.
Though, using PayPal, I didn’t see an option to automatically donate monthly. Can that be added, or did I miss it somewhere?
I’m new to fountain pens and am learning a lot from your site and others, but mostly your site. Keep up the nice work and content, it is appreciated.
Thank you!
Thank you! I figured asking for a subscription payment would be pushing it a bit far but I’ll see what I can do ;-).