For us scribblers, going anywhere without a notebook feels a little weird. You can write down ideas, sketch, doodle, or look busy when your boss is nearby. Your journal says a lot about you — your style, versatility, and the kind of hell you put your tools through. As someone who goes through multiple journals each year, I like each one of them to look different.
So much perfectly good material goes to waste in the world (looking at you, credit card offers). Instead of reusing it all, we throw it in the recycling bin hoping someone else will take care of it. Only problem is they don't. That's why I started shredding up my junk mail and making notebooks.
While I may not be able to hold manufacturers accountable for their abundant waste, they send me plenty of fuel to make paper: junk mail.
Accounting for nearly a quarter of all waste, junk mail abounds, and the best way to handle those stacks of "personalized" messages to Current Resident is to pulverize them in a blender.
Once I learned to make paper from my junk mail, I bought binding materials to make notebooks just the way I wanted — sustainable, customized and functional.
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