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My love affair with boxes

I would definitely admit that I have shopaholic tendencies. I enjoy buying clothes and shoes but not as much as I love buying stationery because, clothes never look as good on me as they do on the model/mannequin and I have ginormous feet that shoe makers revolt against. So, all I can do is turn to stationery that do no discriminate against my large frame. My boyfriend says I love to buy (stapler) bullets & boxes. That is too true. I have loved kawaii for years and have spent my soul collecting Sanrio, San-x, Q-lia, etc brands.

I am however, pleased to announce that my obsession has died down a little, but I still can’t pass up a good offer.

I bought just one item from a Sanrio gift gate today. I would have bought more if my boyfriend weren’t around to act as my better conscience. I have always told myself that I needed someone to keep me from buying too much unnecessary kawaii, but I’ve found out that that just irritates me. No one, I repeat, NO ONE can stop me from buying kawaii boxes.

Here’s the plastic bag that it comes in. Keeping that of course. <3

Oh yeah before I go on with the photos, while I was painstakingly (alright, not so) taking photos with my hefty DSLR, it dawned on me that this was what my air rifle training was for. I had held a heavy arse rifle for 2-3 years so that I could take decent photos with a non image stabilizing DSLR in poor lighting. ANYWAY,

 I bought this item for the box that it came with, not so much the stationery that might be the main part of the product. It cost me $9.95. Under $10 for an authentic Sanrio product? Steal! I had my eye on another Sanrio box too, featuring Hello Kitty that was just a.. that kind of hard paper cardboard boxes with a lid you know.. It was around $25 for a medium sized box. And another memo pad box for $20. I’ll show ya when I sneak out to buy it one day. :P

Contents of the box and stuff. Well, there’s the box. A small memo pad with 30 sheets, 2 pencils, a pencil sharpener, an eraser, a little stamp of a ducky or birdy. Might use it when school starts next year (I typed tomorrow for a minute there, ugh I completely dread the foreboding school reopening this coming January. & I find it rather impetuous that I still refer to school as school. University is hardly considered SCHOOL).

The stationery. The focus wasn’t working too properly and I just couldn’t be too bothered.

Rather successful attempt at refocusing the image.

Yummy back of the box. If I had a bajillion dollars, I would buy 2 sets, one for keeping and one for using. Well maybe I’d buy a bajillion sets and use all the boxes for storage and keep one in mint condition. :P Darn, I’d just buy over the entire Sanrio (let’s take San-X and the other kawaii brands as well) factory.

This is the front. Sugarbunnies! awww..

Inside of the box. It opens with a magnetic strip in the flap.

I want another box already. T-T