Weekend Worship Through Housework

This weekend, you will be looking at the pens in your house. Go through and gather every pen you can find in the main living areas (don't raid personal stashes in bedrooms, etc.)

Lay out an old towel or sheet on a counter or table.

Get some scrap paper.

Spread out all the pens onto the towel and begin testing each pen. Ask yourself:

1)    Do I like the feel of how this writes?

2)    Does it look like it will run out of ink soon?

3)    Is it missing a cap?

Toss any pens that you don't love or that are missing pieces or getting low on ink.

For the remainder:

1)    Consider what writing utensils are needed for each room. For example, in the kitchen, you may want to have a permanent marker for marking freezer bags, a pen for writing grocery lists, etc. In the home office, you may want to have few colors so that you can decorate envelopes etc. For a study area, you may want to include highlighters or drawing markers.

2)    Using what you have, divide up the working utensils into pen cups.

3)    Jot down a list of any other type of writing device you feel would be helpful to have in that cup.

4)    Take any other usable, but not needed at YOUR home pens, and put in a giveaway box.

5)    Put the cups back in their proper rooms.

If you really want to make this easy, try to narrow your preferences down to a particular make and model of pen and invest in a few sets of those, tossing or giving away ALL the  miscellaneous ones you've picked up through the years.

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