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mantisgodsdomain · 17 days ago

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The real pain of Getting Into Fountain Pens is the fact that this is an item that is a Luxury Purchase in the higher-end forms, where the quality legitimately massively improves by putting more money into it, and we have personally experienced how much better a spendier fountain pen is compared to a cheaper one, but we are also the kind of person where everything over $10 gets sorted into the category of "major purchase" and the fact that there are people in the hobby who say that, like, three hundred dollar pens are must-haves is doing a process to our brain, and it is not a good one.

It is remarkably hard to comprehend that there are people who can just spend three hundred dollars on something. It is also remarkably hard to comprehend that we could spend three hundred dollars on something and it would not take out our entire food budget for all of that month. The government should give us money more often

#we speak #note: we are in a weird situation with these rn where basically all of our “not keeping us alive” money #is going into this one hobby exclusively. and we dont necessarily get That much spare money but we have the cash rn #that we can afford to support fundraisers and also get cool junk for ourself without starving #(because of the grant from the program that is currently putting us in situations the counsellor has described as “that's actual torture”)#(but you know how it is with capitalism)#(very funny to us that we got into the counsellor after a bunch of “it's not that bad” and “you just have to show up”)#(and on legitimately the second session she described the conditions we've been going through as “legitimate torture”)#(vindication! we get more breaks now! very funny to get another point for the “we do actually know what we're doing with ourself”)#(after like. a month and a half of people telling us that we don't know whats best for ourself)#(ah well. we got another two months of this before we can get the rest of the grant. heres hoping we survive this gamers)

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