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Good morning!
 And Happy Friday!  


I was sitting at the kitchen table last night, writing up some items for our Monday's grocery list. I love pens. I love the roller balls, more so than ballpoint (I don't like ballpoint pens at all). But I absolutely love fountain pens. I have a gorgeous fountain pen that was given to me by somebody at work as a Christmas gift years ago (he knows my penchant for fountain pens
) and it's my favorite pen; he also made sure I had refills, so I won't run out of ink anytime soon. I'd rather write with a fountain pen than anything. I have several fountain pens and I have roller ball-type pens all over the house (and the car....and Rick's truck.....and here at work.....and......) Right now, my favorite is a Uni-ball Vision pen, in black.

So my question for you this morning: What do you like to write with? Pen? Pencil? A marker? Why? Favorite color of ink? Does it matter to you?

I am expected to use black ink for my signature here at work, for letters and such. But on my time card, I'll sign my name sometimes in purple or green ink, just to make my boss shake his head. 
 
 
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I'm with you, I love a good fountain pen.  Until very recently, I had an antique fourtain pen that actually drew ink from bottles into it's tank.  Second favorite is gel pens, simply because I can get such vivid and unusual colors for special projects.
 

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I got into the erasable ball points when writing a journal so tend to write with them because they're around the place.  However, I too am a great lover of pens and agree that a good fountain pen is a tool of joy.  Also lots of different colored gel pens.  
 

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I use regular ball point pens. I generally try to buy the black ink. It is for business like if you have to sign something. But I do keep pencils and use them if I am filling out something I may have to make a change on.
 

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I'm with you, I love a good fountain pen.  Until very recently, I had an antique fourtain pen that actually drew ink from bottles into it's tank. 
Yikes! Don't know about antique, but that's the kind of fountain pen we used at my British high school in the sixties.

When I write checks, I always use my Sheaffer fountain pen (cartridges). My writing is quite bad unless I use a fountain pen. Local stationery store closed, so will have to buy cartridges online now.

BTW, where do you all find blotter paper? A friend bought me some from France that he found in Manhattan. Even the stationery store that just closed did not carry it.
 

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I use the roller ball pens. When I was working, I had to use black ink, exclusively..Now I like to have blue around the house, and some red, or a darker pink, or dark violet..

Checks and business is done is black ink.

When I was a little girl, I remember having a fountain pen. I do not know how I got one. I used to get ink all over my hands...

Now, I would not even know where to get one...

I am just like @Primula  ,   my handwriting is really getting atrocious.. it was bad to begin with, but now it is getting worse. My printing was nice and neat, and clear.. now I am really getting bad penmanship...

BTW, Penmanship constantly kept me off the honor roll in elementary school!!
 
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At school in England, we were taught the Marion Richardson style of handwriting. I didn't have much patience for it, but some of the girls wrote it beautifully.
 
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i use ball point pens, either bic or papermate brands -- i restock on them when the 'back to school' sales come in the fall. i like inexpensive, but they also need to write well and not be cheap/easily breakable. i buy with red and blue ink in them. blue is what i use for most things, and red is what i use to highlight/make something stand out -- either on my 'to do' lists or on my budgets.
 

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Today I needed a pen asap sure enough ink stopped 
 best item to write

with good ol dependable Eye Liner Pencil never leave home without it - works everytime. 
 
 
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I'm with you, I love a good fountain pen.  Until very recently, I had an antique fourtain pen that actually drew ink from bottles into it's tank.  Second favorite is gel pens, simply because I can get such vivid and unusual colors for special projects.
I used to use fountain pens when I was in Junior High back in the early 60's. I had the kind that you had to draw ink from bottles into it;s tank. I really didn't care for it too much. I guess because it was a cheap one and it did not write too good..

I prefer ball point pens. I  like the Papermate pens with blue ink only. I sometimes use the gel pens. I also collect pens when I go somewhere and see pens sitting out  on the counter. I recently collected several Capital One and Toyota pens. I have a fetish for ink pens. Even though I have more than I will ever use I still have to stop and look  them over when ever I go to a store that sells them. 
 

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Yikes! Don't know about antique, but that's the kind of fountain pen we used at my British high school in the sixties.

When I write checks, I always use my Sheaffer fountain pen (cartridges). My writing is quite bad unless I use a fountain pen. Local stationery store closed, so will have to buy cartridges online now.

BTW, where do you all find blotter paper? A friend bought me some from France that he found in Manhattan. Even the stationery store that just closed did not carry it.
I ordered mine online, from several sources, depending on who had what on sale.  A simple "blotter paper" search will turn up a number of sources for you.

But as for day-to-day writing, my workhorse is the Uni-ball Signo Micro 207.  That's the only bulk pen I buy.  All others are specialty pens.
 
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Blotter paper can be found on Amazon. 

We have a really nice stationery store in town; I think they sell blotter paper.
 

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I use ballpoint pens and always in black. I can't stand blue ink. I used to love roller ball pens but the ink in them can dry out, but I still have a few around the house when I want to send someone a nice note. I used a fountain pen all through college but finally gave it up after spilling a bottle of ink. Now that I think about it, I don't think anyone made nice ballpoint pens back in those days.
 

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I only like rollerball pens for signing credit card paper (it's slick so a regular ballpoint doesn't work). Otherwise they're spotty and run out of ink too fast. I used to like fine-tip ballpoint pens but now I find them too scratchy. I like a nice smooth medium-point ballpoint.

I used to play with my mom's calligraphy pen (the kind with refillable cartridges) but I can't imagine using one for everyday writing. But my handwriting is the opposite of fancy so maybe that's why, lol. I usually print all caps, my cursive writing is terrible. It used to be good when I was a kid, idk what happened! Lack of practice probably. Also, after working at the Post Office so long, I've come to hate cursive writing :lol3:. The machines can't read it so it ends up being handsorted. Which is a pain. So maybe my lack of ability for cursive writing is due to a mental block because of how much I hate other people's cursive writing. . .:tongue2:
 
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