Essential stationery for compers
If you love comping, you must love stationery! It’s easy to be an organised online comper with efficient bookmarks and clever apps, but you still need to have somewhere to keep those receipts and entry forms safe!
Here are my eight essential items of comping kit…
1. Expanding file
An expanding file is the best way to keep track of competitions entered! Mark up twelve of the tabs with the months of the year – and when you enter a competition, staple the details to the receipt and/or packaging and pop into the month it closes. At the end of the year, clear out and recycle your Jan-June sections ready for the next year – then do the same at the end of June. Keep receipts for a full six months – sometimes promoters pick winners who can’t provide receipts, and it may take a while for them to contact replacement winners.
2. Plastic wallets
Plastic wallets are super handy. Use A5 wallets to keep entry forms, receipts and vouchers together. The A4 size are great for larger entry forms – or colouring sheets you don’t want to fold. I love the Scribblicious A4 folder with smaller pockets on the front for receipts and stamps!
3. Notebook
I tend to make notes and lists on my iPhone – but I don’t dare to leave the house without a paper notebook too. After all, you never know when that dodgy iPhone battery will run out! A notebook with a rear pocket and elastic is perfect if you need to tuck a receipt or a few stamps inside. Use it for your prize wish list, to note down unique codes from packaging or to jot down prizewinning poetry!
4. Envelopes
Compers need envelopes to post off entry forms and receipts – although there aren’t as many forms around these days, you’ll still find them in kids comics, and local newspapers and magazines. It’s useful to have lots of white C6 envelopes handy, but I prefer brightly coloured A5 envelopes – and we use the free stickers from my son’s comics to decorate!
5. Permanent pens
Writing on a shiny postcard, envelope or entry form? Use a black biro or a colourful permanent marker. It’s awful to think how many winning entries have been thrown out because a winner’s address is just a big black smudge!
6. Colourful card
I’m a big advocate of making your own postcards and using coloured card is a great way to make your entry stand out. Cut it down to A6, A5 or any shape you like, then customise with stickers and drawings.
7. Postcards
You can get freebies in bars and cinemas but I still treat myself to a themed box of postcards once in a while (it’s also a great present for a comper!). New to postcard competitions? Read my post on how to send a postcard entry.
8. Stamps
I buy larger, picture stamps in sheets rather than the regular everyday blue and orange stamps – I bought hundreds of Star Wars first class stamps when they came out last year! It’s rare for Royal Mail to bring out nice designs on a sheet of second class stamps though, so snap them up when you see them! There are also lots of themed stamps in their online shop.
What’s your stationery essential? Let me know in the comments!
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Stamps, stamps, stamps! We have an agreement that stamps can be part of our weekly shop.
I also cut the fronts off birthday and Christmas cards for free postcards!
Ah that has to be trusty ‘Little Book of Wins’ 🙂 I write down every win big or small, i make notes in it for Slogans & catch phrases, it contains my wish list and lots of other comp related stuff when im out on the move or just at home! I browse through it whenever im having a dry spell and also to remind me of every win I’ve had and its a real morale booster 🙂 that and a pen of course!!
OMG I am a stationary fanatic, my OH goes mad when I come home with a new notepad…….you can go wrong with a notepad, this has to be the essential item for me, I guess a pen would be handy too?!
I use a zip up folder to keep all my comping stuff to hand including pen, notebook, book of passwords & postcards etc.
My essential item is a black Sharpie. Great for writing clearly and can be used for addresses on parcels.
My essential stationery item is a notebook for taking to the shops with my qualifiers listed and for jotting down slogan ideas (for those few and far between slogan comps!)
My pocket notebook with my shopping list of products for Purchase comps and the specific shops where I ned to buy them.
My red pen
I love a good notebook to keep everything jotted down (as well as keep a wishlist in)! 🙂
I use Post It Notes daily to leave reminders of comps I want to enter at a later date just before it ends
Gotta be my thumbs up post it notes!
Good quality pens are my essential item
My essential stationery item is stamps. I enter a lot of postcard and envelope comps so I always have a large supply.
You can never have too many highlighter pens!
I love sharpies! I have loads of colours so it makes my entries stand out and great for use for props in creative comps
Highlighter Pens
Stamps are my essential item, and a pen to fill in those uu expected comps you find locally
I have a tin for all my purchase necessary comp receipts. So handy!
I love post it notes use so many!
I love love love highlighters. I highlight everything important.
A decent pen that doesn’t clog
pen and diary to keep track of the comps I enter
A folder with plastic wallets for receipts.
Permanent pens
Life is meaningless without a highlighter pen
My pen…I go wild if I can’t find a pen that works!
My Post it notes are everywhere… to ever run out, I do not dare!!
Labels i use them for everything indoors!
Personally pens are my weakness.
Post it notes, I would be lost without being able to stick them everywhere!
I am a total label freak.. they tease me at work saying don’t stand there for long or Hayley will stick a label on you!
My a5 writing pad as take minutes in meetings
My essential item is printed name and address labels – saves me writing it out a lot and ensures it is legible!
A good notebook is my essential – I write everything in there so it is all in one place.
Post it note to remind me of comps
Note pad to write down various Instagram usernames as sometimes doesn’t come up when starting to type! It’s a job to remember their names..
Highlighter Pens!
Definitely a notepad where I keep track of my wins
My must have item is tipex.
Notepads for all my reminders!
My black permanent marker, its so useful for labelling everything, files, photos, invoices even for marking items of food in the freezer.
Post it notes to remind me
The Highlighter Pen 😉
Uni ball black ink pens
The Yellow Highlighter Pen!
my post it notes
Brightly coloured envelopes
coloured pens
A Magnifying sheet so I can read all the tiny small print
Post-it Notes are my essential item xxx
very useful prize thanks for the chance to win – I love all stationery especially a purple notebook
postcards and coloured pens
A diary for me to stop duplicate entries
mine’s a magnifying glass!
Bright coloured pens
Highlighters
The Highlighter Pen
A pen
Tipex roller
Definitely envelopes and stamps!
Felt tip pens
I love staplers and hole punches to stay organised!
Postcards, the wackier the better!
Highlighters are a must to highlight important dates!
Notebook & diary…..old school but keeps me on track!!
Envelopes for sure!
It has to be postcards and pens as I still enter postcard competitions
Post it notes !
A notebook and pens!
A planner and pencil ,I’m lost without them .
My plastic folders to keep my receipts and comp packaging safe.
My bando planner, it helps me organise my life and remind me of comps etc
A decent black pen that doesn’t keep conking out on me when I’m in the middle of writing out a postcard
My self-inking name and address stamper for entering postcard prize draws 🙂
Postit notes- my memory’s so rubbish I’d be lost without them!
My essential stationery item is a Berol,Papermate Italic Medium Nib Black Pen.
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Postage stamps
My lipgloss pen
my Parker roll ball pen
Thanks Di
I love brightly coloured Gel pens, ones which smell or are glittery are the best 🙂 @bexallum on twitter! x
A a5 hard backed notebook with a quirky picture/saying on, to keep a track of my wins
My essential stationery item is nice postcards for entering postal comps
My essential stationery item is a ball pen which writes clearly and doesn’t smudge.
Hazel Rea – @beachrambler
Fun postcards, it makes writing them more enjoyable!
I like to use a coloured envelope or postcard. It probably makes no difference but it might help to stand out. It certainly makes me cheerful if nothing else!
I hoard colourful postcards with eye-catching designs.
The wallet I keep my receipts in
I have to have my notepad – it’s got my lists in that keep me o. Track!
I’m all about the quality black pen. Never blue…. that is unlucky for me.
A black biro – so useful and I’m not sure I’ve ever had one run out yet!
I need lots of stamps
A good writing biro, one that doesn’t scratch or leave blobs of ink everywhere!
Colourful, bright, vibrant postcards. Or if its a kids competition, homemade postcards with wacky drawings or stickers on!
Record cards – handy for notes or quickly putting in an envelope to enter a competition
Prrinted name and address labels. So handy for entering competitions at exhibitions and shops.
Post it notes I would be lost without them
Stamps always run out just when I need them
Nice pens that write finely
I always seem to be hunting for the stapler so would have to be that.
My essential stationery item is most definitely a pen.
Pre printed address labels
A ‘thin’ pen for writing that’s easy to hold
A pen that feels ‘right’
My bullet journal – I couldn’t comp without it
post it notes! they are everywhere
I like pre printed name, address and telephone number labels.
oh, note books, those tiny post it notes and pens!
sticky notes
Pens, so useful for every task
Some lovely writing paper with matching envelopes.
has to be coloured pens!
Has to be a pen
love decent notepaper and matching envelopes
Pens and a notepad.
postcards/coloured enveloped 🙂
A good pen and post it notes
My essential stationery item is a Sharpie ultra fine pen. I spend loads on buying them as I love the way they write and well, I guess they make me feel lucky.
Pens, definitely
stamps – always running out!
Pens and pencils – a MUST !
I would be lost without my notebook.
Postcards…love sending them whether for comps or little messages to friends.
Loads of pens, they seem to run out to fast! plus a lot of jotting paper.
pens and lots of them
Pens! Of various colours, I like to colour code things!
Post it notes, I like to make post it notes of creative comps and stick them where I’m sure to see them so I don’t miss the closing date.
note books! I feel lost without one 🙂
A multi colour pen is my essential item. I have 3, well two- one is my son’s, lol x
Has to be a smudge free pen, I’m a left handed, so ink pens tend to smudge as I write
Holepuncher!
stamps, postcards, compers news and highlighters.
An expanding folder. I keep the receipts in a zipped area on the front, and my Compers news and any purchase labels I need to keep inside.
A notebook and tabs for pages
second class stamps and postcards are my essentials. I have embraced using internet, etc for comps but I won’t give up on entering by post.
I am a newbie to comping so this would be awesome as my first win!
My Sellotape Dispenser, otherwise I can never find the end of the tape! Essential for envelopes – mine never seem to stick well & I don’t want any precious crossword coupon entries falling out. I also use it for securing labels & mending the hastily removed label with an on pack comp code on the reverse
a notebook to keep track of everything
Expanding File is a great idea! Separating them into months is a handy tip for someone who loses his receipts all the time!
I love a good notebook for keeping a list of prizes won each month and I tick them off when I receive the prize, good for chasing up prizes not received
Brightly coloured envelopes for me 🙂
Defo my notepad/diary as I’m useless at remembering things! I really like the idea of the folder for competition recipts 🙂
Sticky Notes OR A Folder! Great Blog/YT Channel BTW
My essential stationery item is a set of highlighting pens! I colour code everything! And then put a ‘key’ to my codes at the bottom, to remember what they mean! This is particularly helpful for my spreadsheets, when I analyse the amount I have raised through fundraising. I think, in all honesty, it’s just because I like looking at bright, colourful things all day!
Post it Notes!
Postcards!!
Nice paper
definetly a good pen x
Mine would have to be an A5 notebook
Has to be a decent pen!
A good pen
mine would be pens, can never find one when i need one!!
A notebook & a lucky pen!
A good pen! I like a nice writing pen 🙂
i love a notepad as i make so many notes and reminders for myself!
Post it pads- great for reminders,shopping lists etc
Mine would have to be my notepads – I write everything down as I have a terrible memory, and it’s the best way for me to keep track of comps I’ve entered and, rarely, prizes won. A few different colour pens and highlighters, plus a pencil and ruler, all kept in an organiser box. Fingers crossed as this would be a lovely prize to top up my dwindling supplies and give me the opportunity to enter more postal comps.
notepad for scribbling down ideas, closing dates, purchases necessary etc
Home made postcards are my must have comping stationery. Here they are showing my home grown cornflower. Hopefully they are eye catching https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9fb97f891c1f534402bb6bf7d1b549a07b1bc7fc3d10b1fc74aebf2280129c64.jpg
A hole punch is an essential part of my filing system. Once punched, into my folders go Congratulation letters and comping articles for me to refer back to.
I would be nowhere without my sticky notes! I do love a bit of stationery though.
I do have a thing for stationary, but I do love a black sharpie!!
Definitely black pens- I carry them everywhere as you never know when there’s going to be an instore entry comp 🙂
Pick up a load of cinema postcards, loads of pound shop stickers and a big box to keep everything tidy
My diary 🙂
A notebook and pen
My planner! I’d be lost without it. No matter how many apps I have to organise my life, I find paper to be the best ^_^
For years I used an A5 diary to fill in what comps I had done listed by closing date so I didn’t duplicate entries! Now I don’t do very many each month and tend to use an A5 notebook to list Comps to look out for or jot down ideas for a tie-breaker (not many of those these days!) and other useful related info.
I have an A5 notebook that I find really useful for trying out tiebreaker ideas or noting multiple IG hashtags!
Love stationary,can never have enough ,and all this will come in very handle ,thank you.
A notepad and pen because The strongest memory is weaker than the palest ink.
Wow great prize… happy comping!! 🙂
Postcards. I love postal comps!
My notebook, I use it to jot down comps I might see on TV and slogans I make up
Pen and notepad – making notes is essential
I want to win these
Postcards are mine 🙂 always carry them in my bag just incase I come across a postal comp
pen
I love cute kawaii pens
gel pens and stickers for marking
A good pen for perfect writing
Paper clips to fiddle with instead of doodling
My notebook has I keep track of everything I do during the day or ideas which just pop out
I love stationary. A notebook to keep track of dates and to write down any inspiration when it pops into my head. I’m also a sucker for bright coloured pens. Sometimes I have to remind myself I’m 35, not 5.
Mine are post it notes! I love bright pink ones and stick them everywhere! If I have an effort competition I’m really keen on entering but don’t have time right then to enter, I write the closing date and a reminder of what it is on a post it note, and stick it on the side of my laptop screen. I also write the closing date of competitions that needs receipts to claim prizes on post it notes and stick the notes on the receipts.
Diary, to log competition end dates. I’m new to comping, so would love a vlog from you Di, of any top tips of how you organise yourself.
Great idea Bernie – and much requested! I’ll see what I can do!
Post it Notes – Bright Pink and Lime Green. Love to stick them everywhere to remind me about creative competitions and taking funny photos!
It has to be a notebook, to keep track of everything going on.
A note book with my Comping shopping list. It has a wee elastic bit to attach my pen…
A notebook
Pritt stick
Brightly coloured postcards & one of those pens with different colours!
A nice a5 notepad 🙂
Sticky note pads and a good quality pen are my essentials
A Notebook and pen are my essentials – I’m a wannaba writer and i’m foverever making notes / journaling.
Colourful permanent markers, sometimes I use my drawings as my competition entries 🙂
I have coloured biros for writing down my entries and for writing my wishlist and list of prizes I have won x
My lucky pen, for filling in those forms, writing ideas and a comping shopping list.
A rubber. I always right in pencil so always handy to rub mistakes out
highlighters
It’s my receipt file – I’d be lost without it!
Highlighter pens
A note pad and my highlighters
I usually take a report’s notepad with me everywhere. I always find myself wanting to make notes.
I really love and need my pen and notebook or any paper available.
Highlighter pens & post-it notes I use them for everything.
I love my note book – I keep a record of all the postcard competitios that I enter . Thanks x
post it notes, my Wife has always had a colour code with them, since I have been comping I use them all the time.
i love paper clips
I love folders! I’d really struggle without them, and the more the better, really. But I love stationery in general.
Although I love the really extravagant things, my staple items are two: black and yellow Staedtler Noris school pencils, in HB, bought on offer at the supermarket when a promotion is on, and my hardback black Moleskine notebook. As a copyeditor and a poet, I use the pencils for work mark-ups and the Moleskine for my own writing.
Marker Pens!
Mine is labels. I type pages of commonly used addresses. It saves me so much time when entering postcard competitions.
notebooks!
Highlighter pens – I use them for everything!
A decent pen that doesn’t go blobby!
What’s your essential stationery item? . . . .stamps, l use so many of them
My essential is post-it notes, so useful for all sorts of things
I just love stationery and my fav item is my highlighters/ just love making my mark !
Notebooks, I keep one by my computer for jotting things down, and one in my handbag for when I’m out and about
My Filofax, I’d be lost without that
a note book /dairy so forgetful otherwise
Blank postcards and black pens for me
For me it is a small pocket notebook and pen that go everywhere with me. I use it to make notes, ideas and note down phrases that I have heard on my travels..
Blue bid pens. I love the way they write
Mine is sticky notes. I used to have a plain white wall next to my desk at home, now it’s covered with sticky notes reminding me to check on websites on certain days, to purchase certain things when I do my shopping lists or places we need to go to pick up things or take photographs just in case they come in handy one day 😉
I love brightly coloured postcards and envelopes 🙂
My essential stationery item is my pink sparkly pen which my lovely daughter gave to me. I think of it as my lucky pen.
Postcards for me – the brighter and bolder the better to make entries stand out!
I love this comp as I try and find as many postcard comps as I can, and love making them stand out 🙂
I get through a lot of poly pockets as I put competitions in them for my comping friends. I also have one of those padded pin board with elastic stretched over – i use this for receipts, empty packets with codes on, and pretty postcards. I aslo have a really fiunky pen pot on my desk where I stash any pens I find round the house so I ve always got one to hand.
I love colourful gel pens for writing my competition entries!
I find a decent pen that does not blob or smudge absolutely invaluable
I’m new to comping and I’ve found it very ueseful having brightly coloured
envelopes and bright postcards for postcard entry comps. Ive been quite lucky so far and I’m up to 9 wins now in 6 weeks. So my essentials are envelopes and postcards.
I love a selection of coloured biros – Zebra ones are the best as they are really smooth.
Most important thing for me is a clicky pencil. Everonye else might like a pen, but us lefties have a habit of smudging so a pencil is better. Plus you can correct your mistakes. Of course I use a pen if I need to, but for making notes, a decent pencil is way more practical.
A decent pen! X
a great writing pen
My essential stationery item is a really good pen, I always invest in pens that write smoothly and don’t smudge.
Notebooks – the small ones with the spiral wire binders. I go through several a year as its what I use to jot down notes whilst I’m on my PC. I also love chunky pens – need to buy some more soon as I’m on my last one :o)
A good pen – they always go missing in our house.
Most vital is pens most useful expanding folders as I have to carry a lot of paperwork
I love stationery but most vital item has to be pens
I love those pens, they’re great! We used the exact ones for our Disney autograph book. I think my must have item is a notepad though! Always in need of those.
I use post it notes a lot to scribble info on and you can stick them to the wall and move them about. Great for remembering quick hashtags or visually reminding you about something!
It’s got to be notebook and pens, I’ve tried jotting things into the notes section of my phone but you can’t beat good old fashioned pen & paper!
Felt tip pens.
Pens. I just can’t have too many. As a teacher I was always losing them and pupils often bought me them as presents. However my most precious and used pen is a small Parker fountain pen I was bought for passing the 11+ nearly 60 years ago. Parents wouldn’t buy me a bike which was the usual reward as I was still growing !!!!!
Definately my brightly coloured envelopes and picture postcards
free postcards from local cinema’s they are bright and very distinctive
As a 6th form teacher, my essential stationery items are a red pen (boo!) and post it notes!
I have to have a decent black ballpoint pen and small note book with me as I can guarantee that I will find a comp I want to copy to enter, or other important info on my travels.
Notebooks and pens! I never go out without them in my bag and even have them in my bedside drawer!! Great for noting comps found, ideas for effort comps or adding to that wish list.
I have my notepad for recording my wins, my folder for recording what I entered, polypockets for storing receipts and wrappers, my bag full of postcards, envelopes, stamps and pens, but the most important item are address labels to save me getting bored writing my address again and again on postcards – as long as Royal Mail don’t send them back to me x
I always have a Sharpie handy – blue or black for writing and red for stand=-out notes to self (and the calendar appointments/pay days!). They’re so reliable and you can write on any surface too!
There’s a lot less postcard comps these days but stamps are still an essential part of the repertoire.
Post it pads for reminders of competitions that can not do on ipad on ones that I need to remember to come back to
A good stock of pens – the darn things not only do they have a habit of ‘relocating’ themselves in my house (so I can never find one!) but they can run out mid-way when completing an entry form…
For me it’s a notebook, essential for keeping a record of any wins, so that I can make sure it’s actually received. Found one last year that also includes a pen attached to the spine of the notebook, very useful.
Definitely a good notebook to stay organised!
Colourful notebooks A5 or smaller to fit in my handbag and Ppns with green ink and fine nibs/points.
A nice black pen that’s comfortable to hold 🙂
My essential is a notepad, followed by postcards and stamps. I do 3 postcards a week approx. I love comping!
Pens are always good
pens
I love bright coloured envelopes xx
A notebook is essential for me. I jot down competitions that I want to enter with the closing date then enter when I have time to spend on them.
Postcards which my husband picks up from libraries as he travels round!
My essential item is an A4 hardback notebook, where I keep a note of my wins (what, where from, whether it’s arrived). I used to do this on the laptop but I find it easier to have a physical notebook.
It has to be a paper diary! I love my phone but there is nothing better than getting things in order with a paper diary.
Pens, I have a large variety of pens in a homemade holder I made using a shoebox and cardboard rolls. I still buy more pens even when I don’t need them or if Bic are running another competition haha
I have a certain pen that I always use, I can’t use another one!
I love pens.
My postcards – love entering comps with them and putting a little note on one and sending to my daughter now and then
I love a file to keep my receipts in order
sellotape dispenser! akways missing from my desk
Postcards, as they are so handy for comps and also just sending to friends 🙂
My notebook
Multi coloured envelopes for storing receipts
my diary so I can write down the comps I’ve entered and their closing date
my notebook
I love my diary because I write everything down in there!
Love postcards – i can’t be without them. I have also brought themed postcards and made my own with the help from the children (4 years and 18 months)
Fingers crossed for this fab prize
For me it’s having lots of pretty postcards ready, I try and match up the pictures with the prize e.g. if it’s to win a Caribbean holiday, I’ll use a beach picture postcard. I sometimes pin them up on my noticeboard too to remind me and for inspiration!
Love all your tips! I go out of my way to buy picture stamps. I would add a notebook for scribbling down things you see and want to go back to or for making lists of purchases you need! I also love highlighter pens for marking items on receipts and marking the comps in coppers news I have entered!
My diary! I write everything down in there from uni deadlines to meals out and of course, big comp closing dates!
My essential is sticky labels with my address, email and phone number on. Saves a lot of aches and pains handwriting it all every time. I only use them when a comp asks for all details though. If they just ask name and phone number I write the details.
Another thumbs-up for postcards – absolutely vital for comping. Much cheaper to send than doing the phone entries which usually cost around £1.50. I buy packs of picture postcards from Amazon as they’re inexpensive. I also use them to keep in touch with friends and family in other parts of the country 🙂 Good luck everyone.
Bright colourful postcards
Definitely a folder to help me stay organised!
A diary to keep track of fb comp closing dates so I remember to check if I’ve won
A note book…. I’m forever writing little notes!!
My diary, I use it for jotting all sorts down and keeping a track of important dates.
A nice writing pen that makes it a pleasure to write all those postcards
A nice note book and pen for notes etc
A note book and post it notes so I can keep track of my competitions 🙂
My essential item is a highlighter pen so that I can mark comps to enter or highlight ones near to closing! like a colour coded flag up system. Thanks for the comp!
My comping diary, which is a notebook divided into sections. Each month has a list of what I’ve won. I have my wish list page, my a-z of prizes (I try to win something beginning with each letter, love a challenge!) And a page with all my favourite sites (just incase the laptop gives up the ghost!)
I can’t do without my mechanical pencils. I use them all the time.
I can’t get by without highlighters. I have a colour coded system that I use to note all the different kinds of comps I want to enter in Compers News as soon as it comes through the letterbox!
My essential stationery item is my large desk diary where I can note down comps to enter, websites, items to purchase etc. I wouldn’t be without it.
MIne would need to be my trusty notebook
A really good pen!
Permanent markers
Diary to jot down opening comps, closing comps and shopping list for comps 🙂
It has to be a notebook and pen 🙂
I am obsessed with stationery but my absolute essential piece if comping stationery is my notebook. Instrad of ruled lines it has squares so is ideal for using to tick things off as they get completed (who doesn’t love a list!). It is ideal for keeping track of daily entries.
A nice pen – encourages me to write tidily on my postcard entries. My writing is awful!
Post-it notes for me, otherwise I forget things. I stick them by my shopping list, on packs to remind me to save the wrappers, use them as book marks and my my computer screen.
I cannot live without Post It notes. I use them to mark pages and as reminders for just about everything. I also love washi tape which I use to decorate my stationery. I also use it to make my own markers.
My essential item has to be notebooks! I have loads of them, I have everything from housework schedule to comping all organised perfectly in my notebooks. – It’s a slight obsession I have!
My essential is a graph style note book that i list my wins in. I find it easier to keep my categories in rows and my prize values so they are easier to tally up at the end of the month.
It has to be my 6 different colour ink pen!!! I’m obsessed. But then I love stationery so thank you for giving me more excuses (ha) to buy some. Now off to do a Miss Marple and work out where you got those Agatha Christie stamps. My fav author, hoping it wasn’t a prize you won.
A notebook and nice pen. Great to jot down notes and ideas for comps, and just nice to have around in general.
A couple of plastic wallets from Poundland which I use to store my receipts and packaging.
My essential item is an A5 notebook (which actually was a comp prize!) as it doubles as my comping notebook and a mouse mate for my dodgy laptop mouse.
Post-it notes! I use them to mark pages with a competition on in a newspaper or magazine (the family don’t like me cutting up papers and mags before they have read them, for some reason?!
Lots of pens (make sure there’s plenty in every room) and a handy notebook. I like to scribble down reminders of comps I need to enter and ideas of places to look or key words.
My essential item is my a5 pocket for my bag that I keep a couple of stamps in , postcards and any receipts or leaflets I see out and about safe in my bag ! It’s great when at work and see a quick Comp
A notebook to keep track of the competitions I have won.
Sharpies which are great for making posters for comps!
I keep my comping wishlist and notes in my bullet journal. I use a dotted Leuchtturm and I love it 😀
I recommend bullet journaling to anyone, comper or non comper 🙂
a diary to keep track of any wins 🙂
I have a folder from Paperchase with clear pockets inside. I keep my receipts in there!
Black biro, notebook and scraps of paper
I only have a notebook and pen, although its a very cool notebook with a cute kitty on it. i will definitely be investing in the folder with 12 months!
Notebook, sharpened pencils, pens and a calendar to note down memorable events during the year.
Sharpies! I love them! Brightly coloured and they go on everything 🙂
Postcards …brightly coloured and unusu
I find a decent ring bound notebook is a must for me, small enough to put in my handbag for on the go comping notes.
Postcards! I love them! I use them for comping an to send to family
I have a ziplock bag in my bathroom for packaging with codes that need to be entered in the early hours for winning moments, so when I get up in the night I can do a quick entry!
a decent ball point pen, not an expemsive one, just pne that writes smoothly and is comfprtable to hold
Post-its – for reminders re effort comps and on-going comps, for sticking on the corner of my pc screen to remind me of things I need to do at a specific time such as times hourly comps or twitter parties, and for labelling in photos. Plus a notebook and pens – useful for so many things. Art supplies for creative comps. Ok, I’ll stop there – but ALL my stationery is essential!
i think it would have to be notebooks, i’ve a terrible memory so use them alot to jot stuff down
My essential stationery item has to be postcards – always got a few handy
A pen, for scribbling down comps to go back to and creative ideas
Definitely my note book. Thank you for the chance xxx
a nice pen which will let me write nicely and without the need to hold it too tightly, used to like gel pens.
I keep scrap paper and a pencil on me all the time-you never know when inspiration is going to strike!
My page marker sticky tabs
notebooks and plenty of them! I really like my moleskin ones.
I love my Sharpies. Quite expensive but beautiful colours
I can’t live without my dinky little clip attacher which I had never heard of until I worked in a solicitors office – much better than paperclips because they don’t get tangled. If you don’t know what one is they are here http://www.ryman.co.uk/rapesco-supaclips-dispenser-pack-of-25-clips
Colourful pens – great for organising, ticking off and writing lists and motivational posters!
I can’t live without my notebook! but I also love my sticky notes too
A notebook similar to the one you describe, with ruled pages and a pocket at the back and even an elastic loop for a pen. So useful for recording notes in, and I keep a few postcards and stamps in the back pocket
A pencil and a GOOD eraser. Nothing worse than old pencil marks still being on the paper
A plastic wallet to keep my notes in, ideas for entries and my postcards
Coloured card and a pen.
My note pad is my best friend everything goes into it. I’m also a fan of good quality colourful envelopes.
A nice pen and a pretty pad. I use mine as a wish book and to record winnings
I love a good fountain pen! They’re so smooth to write with and I find myself taking the time to be neat when writing with one! 🙂
A notepad & pen is a must when out & about 🙂
I actually had a conversation at work the other day about this. You cannot beat a lovely writing pen. I love flowing ink that dries quick and in fact I just bought a selection of coloured fine tip scribbilicious pens from The Works so I can decorate my bullet journal which contains my comping wish list!
I always buy a small note book to record my wins
My lucky pen 🙂
I always buy stashes of brightly-coloured envelopes. I use the lighter pinks, yellows and blues for comping so that the addresses can be read easily, and the darker reds, blues and greens for my comping shopping lists!
Notebooks are my must, I can’t resist a new notebook for lists and making notes! Also a nice fine line pen for filling in forms and postcards neatly.
A decent pen, I cannot stand smudgy pens.
Fine tip pen for filling out small entry forms
A nice pen for writing postcards (that my children don’t pinch)
notepads love jotting tbings down helps me not forget everything i have a goldfish brain hehe x
Tippex, being dyslexic means I make mistakes all the time, so I have a big supply of tippex pens/mice etc.
Postcards as used to collect them when young and good for comps.
An organiser, so I can keep track of my competitions, hubbys shifts and little legs after school clubs all in one go.
A nice big pot of various colours of pens, markers and pencils. And notesbooks of course … and post-it notes. I had a really lovely ruler too (I like to underline my list headings) until recently, but it fell down the back of my cooker on Friday – never to be seen again. Hubby said he’ll get it out …. so it’ll never be seen again! 😀
Notebook definitely for making notes/ideas and for some strange reason envelopes – I’m always loosing them! thanks
Postcards, I absolutely love post cards!
Notebooks…I have a notebook obsession! 🙂
I have to have my pencils and note book
A notebook and pen, there is one in my bag and lots dotted around the house!
expanding folders are fantastic. thats a great tip for the months.
A nice notebook and if it has some project markers so much the better.
I absolutely adore a good pen and my trusty moleskin for my never ending lists of things to do and things to pack 🙂
It has to be notebook and pen….keeps me organised and on track….I always jot down tips I pick up and prizes won too
I love stationery in general but I do have a bit of a thing for pens, the more the merrier. In fact I think I am a squirrel for pens. I always have several in my bag and they are all over the house. There isn’t a room without a pen in it. The basic Bic black biro is probably my favourite but I do like the ones you get in hotels etc.
A notebook and pen. I have a set that live in my handbag and goes everywhere with me.
Note books and post it notes! I am a list person! 🙂
I love black permanent marker and post it notes. I use it as a quick reminder on the spot. 🙂
I go through tonnes of paper clips! I clip receipts together, magazine comp forms , anything comp related!
I have comped for years and don’t have any of this! I am always looking for receipts and packets so this would all be fantastic, I need to get more organised.
I love all stationery but especially notebooks! – I always have one with me, just ‘in case’ .
a notebook, i like to make a note of what i have entered each day x