{"id":16134,"date":"2025-12-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/?p=16134"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:56:41","slug":"2025-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/2025-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in Review \u2013 2025 Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been remiss in not saying thank you to Patrice K. for their kind donation on Ko-fi<\/a>. Thank you, Patrice! I appreciate it, and I’m happy you enjoy my posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, last year<\/a> was an anomaly. I went over my self-imposed fountain pen purchase limit<\/a> for this year. Although, to be fair to myself, it was a difficult year, and I would have been under my limit if I’d kept it at 36. I’m ending the year with 35 new pens in my possession, 8 more than last year, and 5 above my goal of 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am<\/em>, however, proud of how I feel about my pen purchases, looking back at them. Over 97% of my acquisitions fall into the good, great, or best categories. That’s the best I’ve done in all 8 years I’ve been actively collecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a successful attempt to make this ranking post a bit easier on myself, I defined each category, rather than going with “vibes”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n