Do you go a little crazy when there's a sale on....paper?

I have stayed home most of the days since Christmas just to keep me out of the stores and spending money. But now you have tempted me. I love buying notebooks, journals, pens and paper. I usually don't wait until sales either. For Christmas I received about 2 packages of pens, one package of pencils, two packages of printer paper and a package of black & white and colour printer cartridges for my printer. But I sent my husband out the other day with my daughter who was in need of lined binder paper and markers for school. I knew if I took her I would have bought a whole lot more than just that. Frankly, my husband never complains about the things I buy. He just complains about the credit card bill when it comes in.

i admit that i do love really cool notebooks and i use them all the time. i always look for them when they are on sale at chapters (which is a large bookstore chain here in canada.) i love them. they are great to carry around for ideas.

yes.. i have craving for paper especially A4 paper. if there were any sales on A4 paper i will sweep them all.

I'm a paper freak and have been for as long as I can remember. Resisting the sales is really difficult, particularly the clearances after Christmas and the back to school sales. Eeep! I'm an office supply freak, too, so it isn't just paper. I'm a mixed media artist, so I use a lot of these office supplies both for work and for my art... a double whammy ... it's hard to stay out of the stores!!!!!

If it is something that I need or intended to buy anyway them I go and buy it,if it is something that I don't need no.It has taken this credit crunch to stop me spending money.It it is food then I will but bog offs then yes or if we are in town and they are giving kids clothes away then I may buy the next size up for my son but that does not happen very often as getting to the nearest town in a half an hour bus ride and the fares are very expensive about $9 and I just will not pay that unless it is an emergency.Stay away from shops is my motto,mind you we did have a journey by car the other day to our local town ,and all the shops hardly had anything in them,or the shops are in the hands of the receivers more like a ghost town then the county town of kent.I think it will get very difficult to buy anything as there won't be any shops to buy anything from .

I love a great sale! I look for them. Sometimes I can't resist either. Especially if it's something I've been wanting or kinda need. I'm usually there when the dorrs open..lol.

I thought I was the only one who was like this. I have no children, but am known to stock up and buy at least a case of notebooks from WalMart every yr. when I see them .10 each. I have had a lot of people, including the Sales people ask me if I had children. I just smile at them and say No, and that I Love to stock up on these as I am a Writer and take notes or Write stories for just about everything I do.

i can resist a sale on paper.

Yeah, that's definitely me. I love those back-to-school discounts and stock up on stationary every time. I have a confession to make. The other day, I counted my stash of blank exercise books (A5 size) and found I still had 40. That's right, four zero. Doesn't look like I'll be running out any time in the near future. But here's an even worse confession. Towards the middle of last year, one stationary store/newsagent marked down all the 2008 diaries they had left. They were selling page a day diaries for ridiculously low prices and I got to thinking, that's at least 365 pages to use for planning a story at the price of a 32 page excercise book. So I bought a few... and tried to ignore the funny looks the sales assistants gave me.