(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)
Household chores are a hundred times easier to complete when your list is cute. I'm pretty sure that's science. And Midori has put that science to use in this Memo Pad To Do List featuring Household Items.
The pad is small, about an A6 size, and features 80 tear-away sheets. There are two designs with 40 sheets each. One has a reddish color with kitchen items (flour and a cooking scale) and one is lime green with cleaning items (a broom and dustpan). The illustrations are cute line drawings that make chores look sweet and romanticized, and not like torture at all.
Each sheet has a pre-printed checklist for ten items. There's a column for the date, a cute house-shaped check box, and the line to write down your task. There’s also a spot for notes at the bottom of the sheet.
The sheets tear away cleanly from the glue binding at the top. There's a cardstock cover that keeps the pages nice between uses. The paper itself is ivory colored. It's very thin paper, and not coated to be fountain pen friendly. Rollerball, marker, and fountain pen (and Sharpie, of course) all had some bleed-through. Pencil, ballpoint, and gel pen worked fine. But of course, this isn't really writing paper, and it's meant to be disposable. While I love writing even my most mundane notes in elegant fountain pens, I can make my laundry list in pencil. I mean, as long as it's a nice pencil.
The memo pad is very inexpensive at $3.50 from Vanness Pens. With 80 sheets of ten tasks each, that's 800 tasks for that price! At the rate I'm going, that should last me a whole afternoon. And it's cheaper than a cup of coffee these days, which I also need to get through all the tasks. This cute list helps, and all help is welcome!
(Vanness Pens provided this product at a discount to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)
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