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It's Sunday, but let's do the Friday Five:
1. Do you write letters on a regular basis or just for special occasions?
I used to write a lot more. These days I have a couple of people I write to, slowly.
2. Do you stockpile cards and notepaper?
Cards, yes. I have a box of nice cards, mostly birthday or blank. You never know when one will come in handy. I think I've worn down my notepaper stash now, but I do have more photocopy paper than a person needs: reams of white A4, white A3, heavy A4 and tan A4, plus three or four smaller (50 sheet) packets of different coloured A4.
3. Are you in the habit of writing thank you notes or just send something via e mail and call it good enough?
Writing thank you notes seems to be a very American thing. I would only write them (or expect them) for formal gift-giving occasions (weddings, baptisms) or for something special. Other thanks can be by emails, text or even in person, depending on who and what the thanks is for.
4. Do you have any stickers or fun ink stamps?
I've got a date stamp. That's fun if you're me. Or it was fun, but we're now past the last year on the roller, so it's literally out of date. I also have a pad of stickers with unicorns and narwhals and stars, which I bought last year. I stuck one on each week of my diary for a bit of decoration. There were so many, I had plenty left for this year's diary, and for next year too.
I also have a label maker that makes sticky labels. Hours of fun, and a very organised spice drawer.
5. Without looking (and I’m going to have to trust you here), how many stamps do you currently have on hand (a roll, a sheet, something like that)?
I had to buy a book of stamps (meaning a folding sheet of ten) last year, when I needed some for work purposes. I think there's five or six of them left; they'll be in my work desk. Local stamps, $1.10 each. And there used to be an envelope in the kitchen dresser with assorted stamps in it: a Christmas card-only stamp ($0.65) from a few years ago and a couple of small denomination stamps, I think from when the local stamp cost changed a few years ago and I needed to add to the old ones to make up the new value.
January
30. Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out? If you don't use top sheets, if you stay somewhere that does, do you prefer your sheets tucked in or out?
I hate being tucked in. I have a doona (you might call it a duvet), no top sheet. When it's too hot for that, I have a patchwork quilt; when it's too cold, I have both together. When I stay in a hotel or wherever that uses top sheets, I untuck as much as I can.
1. Do you write letters on a regular basis or just for special occasions?
I used to write a lot more. These days I have a couple of people I write to, slowly.
2. Do you stockpile cards and notepaper?
Cards, yes. I have a box of nice cards, mostly birthday or blank. You never know when one will come in handy. I think I've worn down my notepaper stash now, but I do have more photocopy paper than a person needs: reams of white A4, white A3, heavy A4 and tan A4, plus three or four smaller (50 sheet) packets of different coloured A4.
3. Are you in the habit of writing thank you notes or just send something via e mail and call it good enough?
Writing thank you notes seems to be a very American thing. I would only write them (or expect them) for formal gift-giving occasions (weddings, baptisms) or for something special. Other thanks can be by emails, text or even in person, depending on who and what the thanks is for.
4. Do you have any stickers or fun ink stamps?
I've got a date stamp. That's fun if you're me. Or it was fun, but we're now past the last year on the roller, so it's literally out of date. I also have a pad of stickers with unicorns and narwhals and stars, which I bought last year. I stuck one on each week of my diary for a bit of decoration. There were so many, I had plenty left for this year's diary, and for next year too.
I also have a label maker that makes sticky labels. Hours of fun, and a very organised spice drawer.
5. Without looking (and I’m going to have to trust you here), how many stamps do you currently have on hand (a roll, a sheet, something like that)?
I had to buy a book of stamps (meaning a folding sheet of ten) last year, when I needed some for work purposes. I think there's five or six of them left; they'll be in my work desk. Local stamps, $1.10 each. And there used to be an envelope in the kitchen dresser with assorted stamps in it: a Christmas card-only stamp ($0.65) from a few years ago and a couple of small denomination stamps, I think from when the local stamp cost changed a few years ago and I needed to add to the old ones to make up the new value.
January
30. Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out? If you don't use top sheets, if you stay somewhere that does, do you prefer your sheets tucked in or out?
I hate being tucked in. I have a doona (you might call it a duvet), no top sheet. When it's too hot for that, I have a patchwork quilt; when it's too cold, I have both together. When I stay in a hotel or wherever that uses top sheets, I untuck as much as I can.