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So I went on a frenzy of putting my stockpile of sepia colored ink into storage. Disappointed, I thought that I couldn’t use my sepia ink. I worried because I thought that my writing instrument would get clogged by using ink that broke down in the bottle.

Then I read a post at by Rick Conner that I linked here at Rickconner.net

Mr. Conner has a wonderful idea about stocking old bottles of fountain pen ink. He drove home his point as to the usefulness of old ink by telling how people exclusively used old, out of date inks. That made me laugh, and I have again got out my old bottles of sepia ink to use.

In another situation, the dealer at the corporate, pen boutique seemed chagrined when I told him, before I read Rick Conner’s post, that I had stocked up on his company’s sepia ink. The pen dealer, however sincere, expressed his concern, and so I was supposed to buy more ink from him. This shows how endemic is the belief of pen sellers who tell us to throw out our bottles of ink.

The selling point to keep only fresh & new bottles of ink is results in much difficulty for having on hand two or more colors. If I rotated ink by the year, the problem of throwing out ink would get multiplied by the number of colors that I had. Some people who feel drawn to the beauty and potential of having many shades of ink would have to spend a fortune to keep up their habit if they were forced yearly to throw out their inks.