Honestly I thought spending $40 on a dotted notebook was a total scam

Tbh I used to grab whatever $5 composition book was on sale at Target and called it a bullet journal. I figured a notebook is a notebook, why pay more? But last month I caved and got a Leuchtturm1917 because my friend kept pushing me and I wanted her to stop. Ngl the pages are way smoother and the dots are actually consistent across the whole spread. My pen doesn't bleed through either which was a huge problem with the cheap ones. I've been using it for three weeks now and the difference in how neat my layouts look is kind of insane. Has anyone else switched from cheap notebooks to a nicer one and felt like it actually mattered?

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the_riley5mo ago

Dude I was the same way. Thought paying more than $10 for paper was just to flex on Instagram. Then I got a mid-range one from a brand I can't even pronounce and suddenly my handwriting looked less like a drunk spider crawled across the page. The dots actually line up and my pen doesn't weep ink everywhere. Now I'm that person who judges notebooks at Target like some kind of notebook snob. Guess I'm officially bougie now.

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stellawood5mo ago

Stick with it for another month and see if the quality keeps up, because that's when cheap notebooks usually start falling apart on you. I made the switch two years ago and now I can't go back, the paper quality really does make a difference when you're doing spreads or layouts. Just don't let the brand name fool you, there are some solid mid-range options too if you ever want to try something different.

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