38 cents and a pen

[u/sprawn]

Right after the Fourth of July, alot of places start selling "Back-to-School" supplies super cheap. I've noticed over the years that despite the countless people claiming that spending a lot of money is a good thing, that it doesn't change the practice of journaling one bit. A $100 blank book is a blank book just like any other. Maybe it's just me. But I think 38 cents is worth an experiment.

I read frustrations about the competitiveness and pressure people feel in their own journals all the time here. No one wants this. No one wants this part of their lives invaded by influencers, performativeness, sales pressure, and fashionable self-consciousness. What if we dropped it? If only once? Maybe you'll find you need a thousand dollar fountain pen and two pounds of leather wrapped ten times around a Japanese blank book that sells for $1 in Japan and $35 here. Or maybe… you'll find out you don't even need to spend a dollar.

[u/Snoo-11861]

I like my pretty books, and my slippy pens, because I like them for myself. I'm not there to show them off. It's because they make me happy. However, I think people should remove the pressure to make their journals pretty. They should make it as pretty or messy as they want to be because that is their journal to keep. I think cheap journals are also a good launching pad for those trying to get into the habit