- You have travelled to the other end of the city to buy a diary.
- You have more diaries than you have ideas to store them.
- On a bad day nothing perks you up than visiting a book-store and browsing through their stationery collection.
- You scan the insides of a diary to caress the paper quality.
- Every time you visit a new country you want to scout markets looking for notebooks, pens and stationery items unique to that place. You have a fear-of-losing-out.
- In a house full of notebooks in every corner, your reminders, to-do lists are scrawled on multiple pages.
- You love faking about a possible financial crisis because of your stationery addiction.
- The wave of happiness sloshing in your heart on picking a new journal is immediately followed by panic – “will my writing be worthy of its gorgeous pages”.
- You might love your elite stationery collection but mass-produced, inexpensive school notebooks are ones you stick to for daily use.
- You hoard stationery from every press conferences you have attended.
- On the first day of work you ask the HR for the stationery kit and wait eagerly for it to arrive. Till then you daydream about its contents.
- You judge your new colleague by the planner she uses.
- You have subscribed to every stationery brand’s newsletter to get updates on new additions.
- You get into an hour-long conversation every time you meet a fellow-stationery addict.
- Staff at the stationery stores know your name.
- Your every dalliance with every diary and notebook has ended prematurely.
- You wish there was a career profile that involved travelling around the world and shopping for stationery.
- You can’t wait to have kids solely because you can buy more stationery.
- Every time a colleague quits the company, you wish they would pass on their stationery collection to you.
- You spend 5 minutes deciding which notebook to carry for your next brainstorming meeting.
- You spend the next 10 minutes deciding which pen to carry.
- Your friends have no difficulty deciding your gift for your birthday.
- You go to IKEA to buy boxes to store your notebooks and planners.
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