Shaking head in agreement. I know...look at her pic. "Pen Snob" written all over on it...

My niece's husband is a drug rep/salesman. They give us bundles of pens for meds that bit the dust. Also sticky note pads, plastic tumblers, tote bags, etc... I see them about once a year, and still have much of the inventory from last year's visit.

Once at a wireless convention I got a Verizon Wireless pen that had a button on the end that vibrated when you held it down. I like the gel type pens but they leak in my purse and/or in the pencil holder.

Just to be a downer, of course, but leave us not forget that those "free" pens don't just fall out of the sky.

OK, OK, roll your eyes, I don't care. But when companies give out free pens, they figure that in their overhead, which is handed down to guess who?

My customers walk out with pens maybe about three a week. They're pretty much crummy cheap pens, and they walk away by accident. Once in a while I inadvertantly order "good" ones, and I lose maybe one a day.

That sounds like peanuts, but I'm a little bitty Post Office. Five pens a week in every Post Office comes out to something like $30,000 a year. And we're not even giving them out on purpose!!

By the way, I most certainly DO take a free pen or other gizmo when offered, and I'm not saying it's an evil practice. I'm just saying they're not really free. My theory is more like, I paid for it anyway somehow, so I might as well take it!

The giveaway kind aren't usually attractive to those of us who are pen snobs, right Cindy? My preference right now is the Staedtler Liquid Point 7, with the superfine point.

Would you believe it..............? I didn't see one in GA. Sorry Monique!!

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Alas, me too, Cindy . My dh bought me a Waterman for graduation. I'm hooked . I dream of a beautiful Mont Blanc...sigh....

Ah, the Waterman fountain fine is a joy to scribble with every time! Give me a 150lb. cotton and get out of my way!

So far, the Mont Blanc Virginia Woolf Limited has held my attention lately, but alas, it is beyond my financial grasp. If only it weren't worth so much to the seller!

My first love is gel pens or something that glides smoothly. But, I am in grad school for social work so I'm the type of person to include everyone..so EVERY pen is good, esp free ones! And they were passing out some nice ones yesterday, not just $.03 ballpoint pens. I have them in a handicapped driver services mug (scored two of those) .. Well.. I am off to start the day.. for father's day I bought a whole bunch of stuff to detail my ex husband's car.

So, I'm going to make his car squeaky clean for father's day..then I will clean up mine. Maybe it's because I'm a visual person but I would rather write things down as far as class papers or notes for myself and I have a ton of pens and pads of paper. I mean..if you're going to have something you like -- glad its an inexpensive interest I bet some of you have shoe fetishes *lol* luckily.. I am happy buying $5 shoes at walmart...

..... still being a cheap date...