How to Use Up Your Overflowing Stash of Pens and Paper ✨🖊📓

Do you own too much stationery? Are your pens collecting dust next to your piles of sticky notes and memo pads? Here are some ways to use up your stationery!

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0:00 Intro

0:27 Create a kanban board

1:31 Use sticky notes to plan

2:18 Decorate a scrapbook or journal

3:08 Make art

4:04 Keep a dream journal

4:35 Copy down quotes

5:06 Write notes to loved ones

5:25 Share stationery with friends

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▬▬ ✦ F A Q ✦ ▬▬

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- We are an online stationery store. We carry unique, high-quality pens, paper, and art supplies from Japan and beyond.

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[JetPens]

What do YOU do when your stationery collection is looking a little too big? Let us know in the comments!

[endlessmtnwildlife]

It's very sneaky how you frame this video as how to use up the pens and paper all of us hoarders already have, and then feature super-cute sticky notes, notebooks, and pens which tempt us to buy more. Well played, JetPens.

[rosieespinozaruiz]

There’s an organization called Letters Against Isolation and you’re able to send letters to isolated/lonely seniors and brighten their day. It’s one way to use up stationary and make someone’s day a little happier.

[Ay-B]

Repeat after me: I deserve to use my good stationary! Nothing is too precious or special to use!
And remember, there are always new and wonderful products to buy. If you use what's in your stash, you make room for new things. 😊

[happenedbychance]

Also just throwing this out there, that scrapbooking, journaling, and sketchbooks don't have to look neat, and you can follow all this advice very messily in ways that can still look good. Messy is its own style, so if yours isn't like the video that's okay and you're valid. Everyone has their own way of using stationary, especially hoarded stuff.

[sherrycohen]

It's YOUR fault that I have a stationery problem. You have the best stationery items and the best videos on how to use them! One of the recent notebooks I bought from you is exclusively for lists of movies and TV shows I watched and notes on the books I read for my book club. I kept a list on in an old Hobonichi and wrote down which streaming service I used so I could see which made the most sense to keep. With the extra savings, I can buy more stationery!

[StephanieSchanda]

Periodically I do an inventory and weed out the notebooks, stickers, pens and such that I bought and never used. I then give them to my teacher friends to give to their students as rewards. It apparently makes the kids super happy and motivated, and then I have more room to buy more stuff!

[BlueEyedBabe]

A way I've been using up stationery recently is writing small encouraging notes and leaving them around when I'm out in public. Virtually any kind of paper and writing utensil will work, and the notes can just be a few words in length.

[powerpointnight]

If the reason you don't use stationery is to "save it for important things" or think you'll waste things otherwise. My suggestion would be to decide to keep the notebooks after using them. Put it in an attic or something, so you know you can always go back and look at that beautiful washi tape that's no longer in circulation.
Also having designated roles for pen and paper will take off some of the hesitation. Like A book and X pen for quotebook or to do list book or thought journal etc.

[bethrogers]

1) Make note cards with paper, washi, stamps and stickers. Larger paper sheets can be made into envelopes for the cards. Use or package with a pen as gifts. 2) I have baskets or other small containers throughout house with pens, sticky pads or note pads and scissors so that I can jot things down wherever I am. 3) Keep a notebook and pen in your travel bag for recording trip experiences, and same in car glove compartment. 4) I make mini art kits with sketchbook or heavier weight paper note books (or cut larger paper into 4x5” pieces and use binder clip), pens, colored pencils, eraser, markers and put in a small pouch. Great to toss in bag for travel or when waiting (like for medical appointments, etc) 5) for partially used notebooks or paper pads, cut unused sheets out of note book, then trim down to index card size pieces to use as scrap paper or shopping lists. 6) when my kids were in school I would write love notes and tuck in their lunch boxes 7) use sticky notes torn into strips as book marks 8) make a recipe notebook - my mom did this when she went back to work and I would prepare dinner from her instructions, these notebooks are treasured heirlooms!

[microcosmos]

The Kanban board concept was a new one for me! I've been trying to get into journaling for about 5 years now and I've tried so many styles, which I couldn't maintain for more than a couple of months.. Hopefully Kanban board might work for my lifestyle.. Gonna try it asap!

[karma]

I’m a book binder so I use my paper stash to create journals and then give them away. My favorite give away spot is any “free library” box I come across in my travels. I sometimes also add a pen or two and a note about the type of paper that is used in the journal. Then the recipient can decide what pens and other mediums to use.

[evie]

I work at a university library. The "free pens!" cup I made helps us allocate our extras, especially when you start realizing that across the industry, especially with gel pens, certain greens, light blues, and magentas are the exact same. Out they go!

[taccora]

Schools, particularly public schools, are always in need of supplies. I try to do at least an annual state of my stationery stash and things that I no longer find useful in the way that I plan will be donated.

[chrisdane]

I wasn't aware I've been hoarding stationeries until I saw this video lmao. Thanks a bunch!

[GG_ab]

Also, a quote I like is “don’t scare yourself out of doing something for fun”. I have now 2 bullet journals about TV shows I watched, and I love making them even though I am not the most artistic person out there. But who care, it’s for fun and I enjoy doing it! So use your stationary for fun, it’d not wasted!

[ZhiYing_Geroniny]

I really does have a lot of notebook and pens. I never thought of doing Kanban board but now this video sparked me to do it so that I will not easily forget about my tasks. Thanks~

[AngelBolt]

I found out a dear longtime friend has gotten into fountain pens. We used to exchange letters, but that fizzled out. He sent me one a few we.... months ago, and in my reply I packaged up some papers from my collection, like Midori letter paper and some Kokuyo Campus pages. I even had some spare Blackwings, and this vintage micro fountain pen that looks like a purple cigarette. I hope we swap more exclusives from our local pen shops!

At first I was a little odd about giving away some of my stash, but a great part about the hobby is letting other enthusiasts try new great products!

[sparklefulpaladin]

Love the video with all the ideas!

Copying down quotes can also be a great way to practice handwriting! I have a small notebook (A6) and have one quote per page. Later, when I have time, I'll pull quotes out of them to put into actual calligraphy projects.

I also love the idea of sharing stationery with friends, though I tend to swap instead.

[cyclaes]

The first few seconds of the video I was like "JetPens stop looking directly into my life and calling me, specifically, out for my stationery problem. I learned it from you!"