12-Step Program for Notebook Addicts

You can't stop whenever you want, that's why you're here.

Welcome to Notebook Addicts Anonymous! We’re here to help you stop with your fancy-notebook buying habit. In order to succeed we want you to follow these twelve steps. Only then will you be free. Or not. It depends if you’re a lost cause. Which, most of you probably are.

Let’s get started!

Step 1: Admit you have a problem.

Step 2: Write out all the reasons you crave new notebooks.

Step 3: Stop yourself from buying a new notebook to write those reasons.

Step 4: Ok, acknowledge your weakness after you purchased a new notebook during a program designed to stop such purchases.

Step 5: Take a good hard look in the mirror. Use one of your notebooks to describe what you see.

Step 6: View your room and shame and contemplate the answer to the question, “WHY DID YOU BUY A NEW NOTEBOOK THIS EXERCISE?”

Step 7: Understand it is silly to buy a sketchbook for the sole purpose of drawing what you see in the mirror. Stop telling the instructor and other people in this program about the GSM quality. That is not the point.

Step 8: For the love of God, don’t explain the difference between sketchbooks and notebooks. Your Reddit group enablers aren’t in charge here. You are.

Step 9: Go onto your Pinterest boards and delete everything that features art supplies, bullet journal spreads, or borderline-erotica Moleskin content. No, you don’t need them for inspiration. You need an accountant to explain how the money you spent on notebooks would look if you’ve put it in the stock market.

Step 10: Go through all your empty notebooks at home/officer/school. Get rid of two-thirds of them. Or even one-third. How about just one?

Step 11: Stop trying to hide your sketchbooks in different locations so you can “forget” about them.

Step 12: At this point, you will probably quit while shouting that you plan to write about how horrible this 12-step program was. And yes, I’m sure you have the perfect notebook to use for that purpose.