Okay for your daily break from staring into the void: the fountain pen / writing tool question of the day is: How the fuck do you store refills and cartridges? Weird ink bottle sizes are bad enough but how do you keep your cartridges contained and recognizable? - ThreadSky

lazulisong.bsky.social • 12 days ago

Okay for your daily break from staring into the void: the fountain pen / writing tool question of the day is:

How the fuck do you store refills and cartridges? Weird ink bottle sizes are bad enough but how do you keep your cartridges contained and recognizable?

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mattwmarshall.com•2 days ago

I’m actually thinking about getting one of the harbor freight mini toolboxes to store all my pens and ink/refills in. https://www.harborfreight.com/mini-steel-toolbox-black-72431.html

zenyanna.bsky.social•2 days ago

(from the feed) any box i receive is immediately evaluated for suitability as ink bottle/cartridge/sample storage. shoe boxes with white interiors are very very good for this. but for cartridges if i don't have a small labeled box for x color, i'll use say a cardboard ring box that i'll label

jlkaufmann.bsky.social•2 days ago

A tray with lots of little compartments, in my desk drawer. To be honest I need TWO desk drawers, but it definitely keeps the little boxes of cartridges AND the stray cartridges all where I can find them.

asteroidbooty.bsky.social•2 days ago

keep some in their boxes so they can be stacked easier.

My most used colors (inks in rotation) are on top of my desk and the other bottles live inside a drawer.

chronically-online.bsky.social•12 days ago

In a shortbread tin left over from xmas

julesdoesstuff.bsky.social•12 days ago

I have simplified my office supplies to the point I just use one ballpoint refill but if you got a fine-tip sharpie could you label the cartridges?

lazulisong.bsky.social•12 days ago

A lot of them are already labeled or have colors marked but I just don't have a good way to coral all of them neatly

joangrey.bsky.social•2 days ago

So! I have, uh. A LOT of bottles of ink. There are three more in my upstairs bathroom, and at least five? six? more in my downstairs bathroom, in case of pen-filling emergencies. All of the large bottles live in this bin on a shelf in my office. They don't spill, and I rummage through them often.

teabrat.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have WAY too many myself!

joangrey.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, there are Noodler's bottles in there. I bought them before I learned that he's a jerk. I won't buy more, but I also won't waste what I have, so.

(Tbh, I'm glad I bought a bottle of the UV reactive ink before I learned about him, because it's cool as all get out.)

joangrey.bsky.social•12 days ago

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joangrey.bsky.social•12 days ago

I'm pinning this so I can take and share a picture of my chaotic ink collection.

fizzixrat.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have a Plano tackle box with converters and cartridges sorted by brand.

Ink bottles are in an index file card drawer cabinet that I added foamboard flooring to.

karidru.bsky.social•12 days ago

I don't use them but I'm cosigning tackle box, which is what I do with my watercolor tubes.

lazulisong.bsky.social•12 days ago

I think I'm gonna get some sort of bead box

refrag.bsky.social•2 days ago

If they're in small boxes, they stay in them. If they're loose, those that are alike go together into small (1" X 2-3") ziplock bags. By "alike" I mean international in one, Pilot in another, etc. All of these fit in an office drawer.

mimiwells.bsky.social•12 days ago

Try a small tackle box or makeup organizer.

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