New Filofax arrives

I used to use a thin personal organizer, but as the number of sheets increased and it became difficult to use, I decided to change to the normal ring size type(23mm) I used before. I bought a Filofax when I went to England in 1989 and had been using it for almost 10 years, so I like it very much, and the recent Original has a nice color and a nice design, so I thought it was better than before.

However, if you buy it at a Japanese retail store, it costs about 16,000 yen(about $160) which is expensive for me, and some Japanese online sites sell it for about 11,000 yen, but there are almost no popular colors, and the type of color you want is still 16,000. I was looking for more and I found that I could get Dark Aqua, which I wanted at a British online shop called Pen Heaven, for about 8000 yen (8700 yen including shipping). I ordered immediately (April 29). However, it took quite a few days from there, and it was March 19 that I finally arrived at my house. 

At first, I was looking for the color "Pillarbox Red" because I thought it would be good and it was sold at Farrar Tanner for about 10,000 yen. I was at a loss and finally, I chose Dark Aqua after all which was neither dark nor too bright, and I think it was a good decision.

I had the experience to buy items from an overseas online shop since I bought Kindle on amazon.com before, but I didn't know about this shop compared to amazon, so I'm worried that it's really okay. I looked up the reputation of this shop but I couldn't find any bad reputation, so I tried it here.

It takes a few weeks to be delivered, but the price is really cheap, so I thought it was not bad to use an overseas online shop. (However, unlike using Amazon or Rakuten, it seems to be quite difficult to process returns, so I think it is better if you know well about the products to purchase. In my case, I'd used Filofax and also saw the item at the retail store. )



I felt it was bigger than I expected, but after using it for a while, I soon got used to it and now I like it very much.

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