Posted 01 April 2016 - 21:28

I'd guess I'm in a minority of 1 here, but I really dislike having ink samples around. Those little fiddly pesky things are so irritating somehow. I use up samples as quickly as possible (happily currently only have 4), so I don't have to have them around. Yes, I know their value, but to me they're just evil necessities. Yes, I know I'm weird :-)

For me, I'm happy when I can get an inexpensive sample first. That way I know whether the ink is something I want to spend enough to buy a full bottle of. Because there are some inks that I would not have gotten if I had been able to try them out first (De Atramentis Document Red, I'm looking at you. Noodler's La Reine Mauve, ditto...).

But I'd be swamped if I got the number that NickiStew got all at one time. For one thing, I would be like Cyber6 and alc3261 -- I'd be trying to sort them by brand and/or buy color family. Secondly, the sheer number would be overwhelming -- I have 3 year old samples (mostly black inks) that I've never opened; add to that the problem of trying to decide what to put in a pen next (I've gone through spells of "sample mania" and ended up with way too many pens inked up at once).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth