AimlessWanderer
Remember to forget me!
I'm a cynical consumer. I can't help it.
Some things do need extra money spending on them, but some things don't. Sometimes extra value is clearly apparent from buying a higher tier product, and sometimes not. I have a tendency to aim low to start with, and then replace with better, only if and when the cheap one fails.
So far, my cheap (under £10 GBP) fountain pens haven't failed me, but after 3.1/2 years, the day finally came when I wanted to see if aiming a little higher would give me tangible benefits. I said tangible for a reason.
I'm not somebody who can detect or imagine a soul in an inanimate object. I am largely ambivalent to whether an item is lovingly made by human hands, or whether those human hands just pushed buttons on a fancy CNC machine, that's loving built and maintained by human hands. I am however, someone who will feel woefully underwhelmed if my elevated spending left me holding something made out of plastic... irrespective how pretty that acrylic or other polymer might look.
Two metal bodied pens caught my eye... and then my PayPal account. Both of them Parkers. I didn't want to have to worry about keeping several different cartridge types in the stash (cartridge/converter is my preferred choice), but don't mine stretching to two, as I already have a Parker Vector. Now, these aren't extravagant purchases for a pen enthusiast, but coughing up £55, and only getting two pens in return, is outside of my usual comfort zone for a scribbling stick.
As such, I thought I'd share whether or not I'd feel silly for having spent that on two pens, or whether I'd feel silly for not having spent that earlier, and whether or not a rabbit hole has started yawning in my direction....
Some things do need extra money spending on them, but some things don't. Sometimes extra value is clearly apparent from buying a higher tier product, and sometimes not. I have a tendency to aim low to start with, and then replace with better, only if and when the cheap one fails.
So far, my cheap (under £10 GBP) fountain pens haven't failed me, but after 3.1/2 years, the day finally came when I wanted to see if aiming a little higher would give me tangible benefits. I said tangible for a reason.
I'm not somebody who can detect or imagine a soul in an inanimate object. I am largely ambivalent to whether an item is lovingly made by human hands, or whether those human hands just pushed buttons on a fancy CNC machine, that's loving built and maintained by human hands. I am however, someone who will feel woefully underwhelmed if my elevated spending left me holding something made out of plastic... irrespective how pretty that acrylic or other polymer might look.
Two metal bodied pens caught my eye... and then my PayPal account. Both of them Parkers. I didn't want to have to worry about keeping several different cartridge types in the stash (cartridge/converter is my preferred choice), but don't mine stretching to two, as I already have a Parker Vector. Now, these aren't extravagant purchases for a pen enthusiast, but coughing up £55, and only getting two pens in return, is outside of my usual comfort zone for a scribbling stick.
As such, I thought I'd share whether or not I'd feel silly for having spent that on two pens, or whether I'd feel silly for not having spent that earlier, and whether or not a rabbit hole has started yawning in my direction....