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Sunday, July 5, 2009

What grown-up school supplies do you have your eye on?

Photo Credit: LeSportsac

Photo Credit: LeSportsac

I can't possibly be the only one (over age 12) who still gets the powerful craving for new pens and notebooks when fall starts rolling in, can I? This year my back-to-school wish list has expanded to include elaborately patterned sticky notes, like this unicorns-and-headphones style from LeSportsac. (Maybe I should just dig up the O.G. Lisa Frank stuff and accept the fact that I am clearly regressing?) Side note: When was it decided that all fancy sticky notes must be sold in multi-size "booklets" with protective "portfolio" covers? Was it because they figured no one would pay $12 for sticky notes otherwise? Have they heard how much regular school supplies add up these days?




Photo Credit: LeSportsac

Photo Credit: LeSportsac


But back to the point: Do you get the urge to buy yourself school supplies (or, ahem, a back-to-school wardrobe) at this time of year? And if so, what's on your shopping list?



















More ways to make your home office prettier:
Cute old-fashioned pencil sharpeners
Vibrant binder clips (a d.i.y. project)

Off-kilter (but awesome) bookcase
Gorgeous Rex Ray wall calendar
Antique card catalog files as creative organizing solutions
Faux feather pens for funnier note-taking
Retired silverware as memo holders
Wooden office accessories
Colorful staples




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  • Mysterious Gryphon's Avatar
    Posted by Mysterious Gryphon Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:13am PDT

    For me, every change of season is a reason to buy new clothes. As the summer winds down, I start hating everything in my wardrobe. The sweet, swingy skirts that once thrilled me with the promise of a new flirtation have lost their appeal; even walking shorts, my go-to summer item, no longer POP with crisp of-the-moment-ness. I start longing for full-length jeans and pumps, for a sweater vest or trench.

    Time to hit up Ann Taylor!

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  • mykk's Avatar
    Posted by mykk Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:20am PDT

    Yes, I am 22 and a college student and I love new school supplies! Mind you, i use the excuse that I need them for college but still, do I really need a 3 brand new eraser just because it looks cool??? :)

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  • ljn1763's Avatar
    Posted by ljn1763 Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:03pm PDT

    I totally agree! I have a HUGE fetish about pens, school supplies, anything you can get at an Office Depot type store. I even like the way it smells! It is all the pretty colors, and POSSIBILITIES! I have a special fondness for sparkly pens and Sharpies of all types and colors, and stickers. ( I am 44 and a teacher...but I have always loved these things. I also tend to get bored with clothes at the end of the season, but my issue usually rolls around in April and May. Lands End and LL Bean clearance usually provide nicely! Happy Shopping, whatever your fetish!

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  • Disgruntled's Avatar
    Posted by Disgruntled Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:13pm PDT

    I recently graduated from college although I'm 38 so I definitely still get the urge for nice school supplies. My big thing was the Mead Five Star notebooks because they have covers that can't be torn off. When they started making them in funky prints I was in heaven.

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  • Laura's Avatar
    Posted by Laura Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:17pm PDT

    I'm 37 and do not go to school, but it has been SO hard to pass by all the sprial notebook and not open the cover and smell them! I wish I journaled so I could have an excuse to by a stack of them!

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  • Mimi's Avatar
    Posted by Mimi Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:35pm PDT

    Yes! I love school supplies!! The hot pink post it notes, colorful pens, pencils, and notebooks. When I was little I collected stickers and placed them in a sticker book(s)!

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  • Honey's Avatar
    Posted by Honey Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:12am PDT

    Are you kidding me !!! I have six adorable cousins, and whenever I'm out shopping and find myself face to face with stationary, I go wild and start buying them stuff... in the mean time, I get some stuff for myself too! lol especially stickers or coloring pencils.

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  • Honey's Avatar
    Posted by Honey Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:13am PDT

    Are you kidding me !!! I have six adorable cousins, and whenever I'm out shopping and find myself face to face with stationary, I go wild and start buying them stuff... in the mean time, I get some stuff for myself too! lol especially stickers or coloring pencils. I'm 25 btw

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  • Gwen's Avatar
    Posted by Gwen Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:31am PDT

    I always loved buying school supplies. I was the nerd that had my Trapper Keeper full of paper, with neatly sharpened pencils aligned on the inside pockets and with each pencil, scissors, compass, calculator, etc in it's own spot in my backpack (course now if you take scissors to school you'd be expelled). I was ready for school to start by the first week in August.

    Even now I have every color Sharpie available, and absolutely nothing to color with them.

    I graduated from college a year ago, and that first August was hard not to guy buy a ton of stuff.

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  • Sin_FORRO_sa's Avatar
    Posted by Sin_FORRO_sa Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:11pm PDT

    I love pens.

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