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ratcreature) wrote2010-12-14 08:42 pm
ratcreature) wrote2010-12-14 08:42 pm
today's rant
Why don't stores carry cheap blank notebooks anymore these days? If you don't want it lined or checkered, it all seems luxury moleskines and other yuppie sketch books where you pay €10 for a small one, rather than the €1-2 a bound ones with lines sets you back. I get that the yuppified versions have nicer paper and/or nicer binding and maybe a brand name, but seriously. Copy paper quality is fine for just scribbling for me, because it's not like I want to do water color sketches or something. Also it actually makes me much more likely to do scribbles if there's no anxiety over wasting expensive paper thrown in. I have a small sketchbook with nicer paper I got as a gift and that's still blank.
Anyway, I've looked in two stores, and neither had cheap, blank A6 notebooks I can carry in a pocket. I should have hoarded some when I last saw them available, because then already cheap blank ones were rarer. *is disgruntled*
Also, today's random observation that doesn't have anything to do with notebooks, except that I noticed while I was in a store looking for those: I came across a display of plastic toy horses, and the stallions were all rendered with small horse penises and testicles. I don't remember my plastic horses having those when I was a kid.
Anyway, I've looked in two stores, and neither had cheap, blank A6 notebooks I can carry in a pocket. I should have hoarded some when I last saw them available, because then already cheap blank ones were rarer. *is disgruntled*
Also, today's random observation that doesn't have anything to do with notebooks, except that I noticed while I was in a store looking for those: I came across a display of plastic toy horses, and the stallions were all rendered with small horse penises and testicles. I don't remember my plastic horses having those when I was a kid.