My Pen Collection

Welcome to Hooked on Pens! You are no doubt here for some delicious pen porn. (If you are here for regular porn, I can't help you. I will, however, try to make a few penis jokes, so if that works for you, stick around.)

Behold, my pen collection:

Up until last year, my pen collection only grew by happenstance. I bummed promo pens, stole from my roommate, and nabbed a few random packs of pens every year after the back-to-school madness. Then I discovered JetPens.com and I was catapulted straight from "has a lot of pens" to "holy crap, pen fetish!"

Though I am not nearly organized enough to keep these pens separated, there are several distinct categories in my collection.

First, we have the fine-line gels. These delectable beasts lay down smooth, dark lines that are yummy enough to drool over. (Don't look at me like that. You're reading about pens, so it's not like you're normal either.) These are my favorites and I keep them close at hand.

Next, there are school pens. Yes, they are color coded. I might be a little bit of a dork sometimes.

After that, there are highlighters, most of which live in my backpack along with the aforementioned school pens.

Then we have markers...

and somewhat crappy pens I purchased in bulk. Don't know what happened to the rest of the Zebras; don't care what happened to the rest of the zebras.

Next up, we have the "why the hell not" category. This includes pens I bought because they looked cool, pens I bought because I needed pens, and pens with no functionality whatsoever that exist solely to look pretty.

After that, there's the "WTF" category. This category includes all the oddballs, from the Twizzler pen my brother gave me to the blue Staples pen of unknown origin. (Seriously though, I have no idea where that pen came from. I've never purchased a Staples stick pen, and I sure as hell never purchased five million Staples stick pens, and you know it's impossible to buy them in less than a truckload.)

Finally, I have my two fountain pens, which I am somewhat afraid to use, but they're soooo preeetttty!

To be honest, I didn't realize how extensive my collection was until I dumped them all out for your perusal. Now, I'm not about to admit how many I have, but it's definitely more than a few. (It's also more than a few times a few, but really, who's counting?) What is the status of your pen collection? Is there something missing from mine? Let me know in the comments!