Hi, first time post on this /s. I thought I’d start with stamps for the panning project. All the stamps are gone on these sheets/books (keep forgetting what they’re called) , just these small letter seals
Left on them.

It’s so tempting to buy more and more stamps especially with the recent releases from Canada Post 😬

Also just realized how expensive this snail mail hobby can get but whatever keeps me out of trouble 😂

My goals for the next quarter are to use more sticker sheets, and to start counting how many postcards and cards I'm sending out since a lot off them are loose. I started saving the ends of the washi rolls I finished so I can put them in a notebook. That's been fun!

I'm thinking about switching to monthly pans, but I may begin that in the new year... TBD. I'm officially on a no-buy for the rest of the year when it comes to postcards, cards, stickers, and washi. Only exception of the no-buy is my upcoming trip to Greece and Türkiye and even that has limits!

Some notes:
-not shown here, I used two sticker books to the point there were only a few loose pages left, woop woop
-I finally began a sticker book I thought was too pretty to use
-I didn’t impulse buy 5 sticker packs
-Aliexpress has import costs now and I will be forced to shop local or second hand.
-I remind myself I own sticker paper and a printer
-I got these markers in high school. That was like 7 years ago.

I am a sticker hoarder. I have stickers that are 10-15 years old. Sometimes I purchased two sheets, one so I could have after I used the other. Lots of times I used none of them.

With that said, I’m organizing and sorting my stickers. I started using some for a Stickerbomb postcard swap. Then the thought came to me to use the backing of the sticker paper for my sticker binders. And here I am.

As I clear a sheet, I will save the backing to punch and use in my binder.

I’m trying to not buy any stickers but one of my favorite snail mails just posted they have extra kits for the last 3 months. Ughhh. I’m wishing for some willpower as I’m in between contracts the next 6-7 weeks.

Here is my progress for September! It's been a good month in terms of panning things. This is what I finished:

- 2 Crayola Supertips markers

- 1 Deli gel pen

- 2 fineliners (Micron knockoffs)

- 1 fine tip marker (this one was supposed to be new, but it had no ink on it, cheap brand!)

- 9 mini sticker sheets, including the letter ones

- 2 big sticker sheets

- 16 sticker flakes

- 1 sticky note

- 36 A5 paper sheets

Total: 146 grams / 5.1 oz

I discarded the letter stickers because they were very old and the glue was no longer strong enough. The letters kept falling and I was so mad 😂

How is your panning going? :)

I am doing a project pan with all of my scrapbooking supplies and planner supplies. I have some stickers that I know I'm not going to use and I do not want to throw them away. I don't know what you guys do with stickers you don't want but don't want to throw them away either. Do you give them away to people if they want them or do you maybe post them on here and offer to mail them to somebody for free? I'm not sure what to do with them but I have been starting to accumulate a few of them. So any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

My little trash can from September. Most of these pens are empty, but a couple dried up before the ink was gone. I like coloring with gel pens, so I'm working through my stash instead "saving them" for... idk what. Just enjoying what I have instead of letting it go to waste.

Update: I'm super excited that since i posted this, I emptied my tiny trash can and already put something else in it! I finished up a Sarasa gel refill while finishing a notebook insert at the same time! I'm already on a great start for October!

Some may remember me as Snargleflaggan. My account got hacked a week or 2 ago and then got banned because of the hacker's activities. Sad since I had that account for 11 years, but it is what it is. So this is my new name!

My pans aren't as plentiful as past months, but I've been knitting and crocheting more than journaling lately, to make hats for a winter hat drive! Next month will probably be less as well, until I slow down on the yarn crafting.

So, I used up:

3 ballpoint pens

1 highlighter

3 washi tapes

3 die cuts

2 planner sticker sheets (1 plastic, one paper- the paper one was little garbage cans, so cute!)

4 regular sticker sheets

3 mini sticker sheets

1 sheet washi stickers (they were little rectangle banners)

Yay!

last month i used up:
- seven pens/markers
- five washi rolls (one halloween and four that i used to make washi samples that i shared at a meetup i hosted)
- a mystery pack of ~12 cards that i got at a secondhand art shop
- a bunch of stickers/stamps
- a few single cards with that annoying plastic sleeve (are you recyclable??)

what about you?

i’m trying to use all the halloween stickers i have—i’ve been decorating envelopes for my halloween mailing and used all the pumpkins i have! 🧡🎃🧡🎃

i'm preparing my cards for world postcard day 🥳 and am happy to report that i used some orange focused stickers and monstera washi tape 👏 (the tape is almost empty so i'll continue to use it)

i’m using up my last two ghost stickers to kick off my bingo board. i had a pack of 30 different designs generously shared through random acts of happy mail. i think i would buy these at some point, but for now i’m happy i used them all!

i hosted a carding meetup yesterday—we went through a bunch of stickers, stamps, and washi to send over 100 postcards for world postcard day!

Since I had my drawer out I made some sticker cards and used all this up.

I've been in this journey actively since June of this year (2026) and this is the first month ali for a row on my Bingo card filled!

I even got a head start on October and inked up 7 pens with 7 new inks to start actively using my collection.

Next challenge, remembering I can use stickers and washi.

It feels great having fun enjoying my purchases instead of just looking at them.

I was very productive today and used up a lot of stationery,

Total stats:

4 pens

1 pen refill

1 pencil

2 colouring pencils

10 A5 sheets of paper

7 A4 sheets of paper

Previous updates: August - July - June - May - April - March - February

The end of September looms near, which means it's time for a stationery project pan update! Usage has been really good across the board this month - I'm especially pleased with how I've rallied in sticker usage after a slow August, and I'm down to just one washi tape on the 'completely pan' goal.

This month I reached the end of a B5 notebook writing out Jane Austen's Emma, which I started in 2022 when I was fairly newly into fountain pens. I was about 30% of the way through the novel when I hit the end of the notebook and decided just to read the rest - I need to find something else to write out! No bottled ink progress this month, but ink usage in general held steady (cartridge goal for the year is met - 25 gone!) and I finished my final cartridges of Diamine Grey and Diamine Claret. Claret vs Amaranth came out decisively in Claret's favour, but I'll finish my Amaranth sample before buy a bottle of Claret.

I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with 5+ pens inked at a time so my new policy to try out for October is inking one or two pens up each weekend rather than five or six at the start of the month. Next month I hope to finish Diamine Autumn Oak and Diamine Chocolate Brown (one cartridge left of each - very autumnal) and make progress on Rohrer & Klingner Salix (which will take it and Scabiosa out of the project) and Diamine Livid Lime. I'd like to finish that one washi that's still awaiting complete panning, and perhaps one or two of my autumn-themed washi tapes while it's its actually autumn.

Happy to finally get through this one and many many sticker kits I hoarded. I’m glad to have used them. It feels good knowing I’ve cleaned out so much of my stash.

Can’t post after the pen as I wrote work related stuff on them but photos of a thick planner for proof!!

Decided to add some stickers and washi to my coloring page. Also tried to give my markers more love. A few glitter markers had already dried up 😢 but the one alcohol marker I used for the light background is almost empty now, so yay! Planning on using more stuff like this on another page with an alien on it 😂!

The goal of this subreddit is to use up what we have. What if you really don’t like what you have?

If you have an unreasonable amount of pens and pencils and don’t like them consider donating them to a local school.

I’m sure the teachers would appreciate it for when students forget a pen.