Editing The Pen Addict 24/transcript (section)

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we're going to talk about organization outside of the pencil case.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. So the question was – let me see if I got the email here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sorry. I know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sorry. I was on a different screen. This is from Craig. Craig says, He must be a Brit because he uses S in organize. So I'm going to go with that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He says, Perhaps you could talk about useful ways you found to contain the horde. He says, I don't have a vast collection myself, but my fountain pens are quickly growing in number along with the stuff that tends to come with them. So I'm always interested to hear ideas that might be useful either now or in the future.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So my storage – and if you followed me since the beginning, you've seen me kind of do some pictures and maybe some tweets of how I store my pens. And it is very, very unimpressive and just kind of getting the job done type of storage. So I probably have – I mean I've never counted how many pens I have. It's – I don't know. Let's say a few hundred.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that's just some mass market pens where you buy four packs and five packs or dozens. And they just all kind of pile up and you just get numbers and numbers and numbers. And at the house, I don't have a lot of storage. So I tried to consolidate as many pens as possible into one storage bin. So what I've done is taken – like if you go to the store in like a Walmart or Target or something and they just have the plastic storage bins, right? Just like – I don't know how big this thing is. 40-gallon, 50-gallon, somewhere right there. Something that's about two or three shoeboxes in size if you can picture that. I'm sorry. I don't have the right gallon measurement or liter measurement. But what I've done is taken one of those boxes and early on when I started the pen addict and I started acquiring these pens, I'd sort them out by – most of the time by brands. So like Pilot, Pentel, Zebra, Muji and different things like that. I took that bin. I took a box of Ziploc bags and I sorted them by brand and put them back in the bag.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I bet that was a fun day though.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I mean that's the gist of my storage. And I can tell when I'm getting too many pens when I can't close the lid on the bin.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I get tired of saying, oh, I wish I had this pen today and have them to dig to the bottom of the bin and have a lot of Ziplocs to go through. But I just use the clear Ziploc so I can see what's in them obviously. And the regular size, standard size Ziploc is the perfect width for a pen, right? So they store them in there tightly.