TGS Anniversary Promotion: Bonus Stickers and a Giveaway!

T.G.S. is 10 years old this month! To celebrate our “bloggiversary,” (or “webbiversary,” or whatever you want to call it), we’re going to be giving some some stuff away and running a TGS Swag/Sticker promotion in the shop. Through the end of the month, all T.G.S. Curated Shop orders that qualify for free shipping are going to receive one of our large 3” holographic water-bottle stickers, while supplies last. If we run out of stickers, we’ll substitute a couple coasters, an acrylic pin, or something similar. As a reminder, all orders over $75 qualify for free shipping in the T.G.S. Shop, and no coupon code is necessary as we’ll just add the items to your package when we ship. There’s plenty to check out in the shop, as we’ve recently received a fresh shipment of Roterfaden Taschenbegleiters, new releases from Lamy and Kaweco, as well as some offbeat multi pen and gel pen items from Uni!

Don’t Miss Our Giveaway Courtesy of Scriveiner!

UK-based Scriveiner fountain pens recently sent me a box full of fountain pens and rollerballs, some of which I am retaining for review purposes, but others that I’m going to be giving away two fountain pens as part of our 10th Anniversary festivities! All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on this blog post or like the Instagram post that will go up today. For the comment, share your favorite T.G.S. review or a favorite pen that you learned about through T.G.S.! It’s always fun to hear what content people have found helpful. Winners will be drawn by assigning a number to all comments and likes and choosing winners via a random number generator. This is open to all but international winners may be asked to pay shipping.

As always, thanks for reading!

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A Huge Thank You for a Wonderful 10 Years: The 10th Anniversary T.G.S. Best Pens Update Is Live!

I did some more extensive revisions for this year’s “Best Pens” update, revising some of the list to reflect price changes, new additions, pens that have fallen out of production, and older companies that have become a bit stagnant. I won’t be overly long summarizing the update: you can read the list for yourself here! There is plenty more 10th Anniversary content on the way, including a pending “Best Pencils” list (both mechanical and woodcase), as well as a Multi-Pens category for the main Best Pens list. I wasn’t in a position to finalize all of those today, as I’m still considering whether to break pencils into a separate list. I hope you enjoy! I’ve really enjoyed being a part of this community for the past 10 years, and hope for at least 10 more!

Updated 4/14/24: I receive a lot of comments and messages whenever I update my “Best Pens” list. I can’t respond to all of them, but as a general matter I want to clarify a few things.

• It goes without saying that any TGS review/ curated list reflects my opinion, based on my own decade-plus experience of buying, using, collecting, and selling fountain pens. The fact that a pen is not featured on the list should NOT be considered a judgment on a pen that you otherwise personally enjoy.

• I cannot review everything. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of different pens available on the market and to keep things manageable I reduce each category to five entries. If there is a pen that I have not reviewed on the site or featured in the list, that you think I should consider, please send me a message through the “Contact” link and I promise I will look into it.

• Because the overwhelming majority of my readership is in the United States, I generally limit “recommendations” - especially for beginners - to pens that are readily available in the U.S., from U.S. based retailers, so that it’s unnecessary to mail a pen overseas for warranty service. Of course I still import pens and review them and enjoy them, but this list is written with a different set of considerations in mind.

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