Vent: My whole weekly spread bled through the page

I was setting up my journal for next week on Tuesday night, using my usual black fineliner. I tried a new brand of notebook paper, the kind they sell at the craft store downtown. The ink went right through to the other side, ruining my habit tracker on the back. I had to carefully cut that page out and start over with my old notebook. Has anyone else had this happen with craft store paper, or is it just me?

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park.robin2mo agoMost Upvoted

What pen were you using, because that paper is usually terrible for anything wet?

gray62mo ago

Totally agree, that paper is the worst! I tried a basic ballpoint on it last week and it still feathered like crazy. It's basically just for pencils at this point.

kim1881mo ago

My friend Mark brought one of those notebooks to a meeting last week. He pulled out a brand new, totally normal rollerball. The ink just spread out in little hairs all over the page. He looked at it, sighed, and just wrote the rest of his notes in the margin of a printed handout. That paper is a lost cause.