Over 2 years ago, this week’s addict made her first appearance on this site. I loved the way Ina measured her collection by standing next to the pile. She’s kept collecting notebooks since then and look how the pile has grown!
As of April 30, 2013:
As of March 31, 2011:
Ina has a whole page on her website with a Q&A about her notebook collecting:
Tell us something about your notebook collecting self.
– I’m Ina, I’m 22, and I like notebooks waaay too much.How many notebooks do you have, so far?
– They’re too many now, I’m thisclose to losing count. I count boxed sets as one notebook and I count duplicates as one each, I give some and receive some, so the number moves around constantly. :)As of December 26, 2012: I think they’ve made it past the big 1-0-0 at this point.
How long have you been collecting?
–SixSeven years.Where did it all start?
–  Ever since elementary school I was really the kid with a notebook in one hand. I used to buy the 9-peso artista notebooks back then. It just started snowballing when this little pink notebook in the Scholastic Book Fair blew me away and my high school friend bought it for me as a present. I haven’t stopped looking for good notebooks since.
Read more at her original post, and the prior addict post. And check back in a couple of years– she may have two stacks that high by then!
Wow! Those notebooks look gorgeous. I wonder if she was a fan of Harriet the Spy? I kept diaries as a kid until I read that book. Then it was notebooks! Since then I’ve journaled in both pretty journals and mini notebooks, and I write fiction in regular notebooks. The Back to School sales going on right now are my weakness. I’ve managed not to buy any new notebooks so far-I still have a lot of them that need filling up!-but, yeesh, it’s difficult!
Happy reading and writing! from Laura Marcella @ Wavy Lines
Hi, Laura! :) I haven’t read Harriet the Spy, however I must say I’m madly in love with books. It’s always been a dream of mine to be able to write a story of my own, but then it typically gets help because I like drawing above all things. :) Over at this side of the planet we’re going to have the Manila International Book Fair on September, and they sell school supplies there, too. It would take a hard look, but there are a handful of gems there too, like notebooks and pens. :)
Wow. Are all of those notebooks cool?
Very neat that she’s had journals for 7 years and started so young. I would be fascinated if I had journals from age 15.
Aww, thank you! :) I wish I could have started even younger, honestly. I wish I could have saved all the previous notebooks I used as a kid; I’d probably have a laugh from all the stuff I’ve said in the past.
Now, I’m trying to keep a time capsule notebook for my kids. I write on those from time to time when I feel like I have wisdom to impart to my future children. Maybe the things I’ve written will be irrelevant in, say, ten years, but what the heck. It’s worth the shot, not to mention a good way to make use of the many unused notebooks I have at home. :)
Im in total awe right now. This is amazing!