What's in your pocket?

Crumbling jasmine blossoms, some cedar waxwing feathers, a ticket to the first Harry Potter movie, etc...

What's in your notebook's pocket?

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[gary]

map of New Orleans' French Quarter, the original moleskine slip (I like rereading it...), my writing mission statement, a few inspirational quotes, the last brilliant idea scribbled on a now-faded cocktail napkin, yet to be borne in a story...

[TPB, Esq.]

A list of all of the character names I have ever used, a photocopy of an article on Catholics that I intended to rebut, a receipt from the parking deck at the Superior Court of New Jersey (Essex County), a post-it note with a list of budget expenditures for Jet Propulsion Lab, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the National Endowment of the Humanities, and a bar napkin with my picture sketched on it by a girl whose name I can't remember.

[luke]

a stack of my own business cards, fliers from the conference where they gave me the notebook, reciepts for train fares...

[Niklas Dahlin]

Wallet-stuff: cards, receits, cash. It was just less troublesome to have only one item - and a pen - in my pocket. The wallet sleeps on a bench in the kitchen, one day to rise again.

[Lohr]

In my Moleskine pocket...hmmmm...a ticket stub to "Master & Commander"...a business card from the architectural firm that shares this floor with the law firm where I spend my days...three fortune cookie fortunes...a small folded image of the Psyduck from Pokemon...

[Lohr]

And...always...the little slip that comes with the notebook, the little Moleskine legend... What I *hope* for in the pocket would be...hmmm...love notes from various admired-from-afar girls...

[Mike]

I have a list of the most commonly misspelled words and a map of Middle Earth.

[Pragmatik]

The business card from a fine Afghan restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland; the Moleskine legend card; a picture of Boston from the Charles River torn out of a newspaper with a wet rollerball pen; a picture of Walt Whitman from the ad for a gay/lesbian bookstore in Boston; a picture of Baudelaire printed from the library at Boston College; a picture of William James printed from the library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale; gas receipts from Paducah, Kentucky and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; the business card for The Bella Luna Cafe' in Salem, Massachusetts; a tag from Twinnings English Breakfast Tea; a scrap of paper from 1999 with E.A. Poe quotations; a fortune cookie message reading "Discontent is the first step in the progress or a man or nation"; a flash card from my camera with pictures of Baltimore at Christmas time; a flower.

[m]

postage stamps!

[Stefan Keydel]

A leaf from a silver maple tree in a Kyoto temple

[Edelmak]

The Moleskine legend (which I have reread dozens of times), my own business cards, train schedules, bus schedules, and Continental & Northwest airline schedules (do you see a travel theme developing here??).

I am also reading everyone else's lists to see if I am missing anything!!

[Michael]

Blank 3x5 index cards. I absolutely abhor the thought of cutting or ripping a page out of the book, or of using it for something less signifigant (to me, anyway) than my thoughts, i.e. phone numbers, to do lists, etc.

I also keep another 3x5 card paperclipped to the front page that I keep track of my bank balance on. It helps avoid outrageous overdraft fees.

[beleg]

I always keep a 20€ bill, "just in case".

some bank-receipts, one or two drawings, the Moleskine Legend, the colored Molekine ribbon that comes with ...
and I keep some coins I found in my late grand father's desk.

[Joy Rothke]

I'm a very new [1 week] member of this cult, so I've very little:

*some of my own business cards
*the Moleskine history insert [do most people retain those?]
*the orange wrapper [ditto re retention]

I've been admiring my Moleskine more than writing in it. I'm still using my 11x17 cm Clairefontaine spiral notebook for grocery lists, to-do lists, phone messages, etc.

[Sophia]

In my current 'skine's pocket (large, lined, straining at the elastic) I have:

* a brown card gift tag with a heart stamped in red onto it, which is taped onto the cover inside the envelope.
* a card I made up with all my partner's contact numbers on it covered in sticky-backed plastic
* a list of writing prompts for a day, week or monthly summary (from http://www.journal-writing.webdjinni.net/index.html)
* the eminently useful piece of paper
* a ticket stub for entry to a museum in Japan. I haven't actually been to Japan - I found it in a book I got out from the library - obviously used by the last person who got it out as a bookmark - quite a find
* a few iZone photos I've taken that I haven't stuck in yet - I find them a great format for the moleskine with instant gratification!
* a flyer for an outdoor production of "Much Ado About Nothing" that I want to book tickets for
* ticket stub from Troy last night
* a small skein of hand-spun yarn in a bluey-green found at a visit to a small village nearby a few months ago

I also use a small plain 'skine for work and keep my swipe card in the back.

[Joy]

Wow...it's been almost a year since I took my Mole vows!

What's in my pocket[s] today:

Squared small notebook:

*3x5 card of affirmations
*page explaining 'Mind Mapping'
*Mike Shea's writers tips
*one of Mike Rohde's Mole drawings
*3x5 cards with journaling prompts
*5 of my business cards
*blank 3x5 cards
*copy of a favorite poem ['Nostalgia' by Billy Collins]
*mini calendar from Baron's Drug Store in Westfield, NJ
*always-changing bits of ephermera I later glue into the Mole

2005 week-on-2-pages calendar:

*a couple of my business cards
*online writing group schedule
*GTD tips I've gotten from 43Folders.com
*90-Day Challenge info from Michael Hyatt [more time management/GTD
*4 blank 3x5 cards
*a 'lucky' dollar bill

~Joy

[Laura]

The orange wrapper it came in, a ticket stub from a St. Louis Cardinals game, a list of "Lists of 100" writing prompts, a torn piece of paper with an artist's bio, an index card with interview questions for said artist, a business card from a Galapagos Islands expedition leader.

[Joel]

Let's see:
-a green doodle a friend of mine had done on a scrap of paper
-a shipping tag I had stamped with a ruuber stamp creation of mine... a little fish. Used as a bookmark.
-a business card from where my ex works.. need to throw that out.
-a black card with a little skull stencil I had done on it.
-a friend's e-mail address
-ticket stub from Blade: Trinity
-some coupons
-a business card for a go-karting establishement i had found
-a phone number I don't recognize
-some blank scraps of paper
-another phone number I don't recognize
-ANOTHER business card from where my ex works (geez)
-a business card for the Tie Rack

[John]

Joy, I LOVE that poem!

[Alex C.]

Nothing too special. Just my M's sleeve, and the history of the Moleskine

[George Gilliam]

Business Cards
Personlized Blank note Cards for-( Writing Assigments to subordinates, written thank you notes)
4 tickets to the upcoming circus
Expense receipts to be redeemed
Laundry Claim checks for dry cleaning

[Kate]

For my personal journal:
-Barnes and Noble Readers' Advantage card
-B&N and Office Depot receipts
-The little Moleskine history slip
-Business cards for www.inkednib.com and American Association for Cancer Research
-Letter from a friend
-Picture of my niece and nephew, from 1 or 2 Christmases ago
-NYT article by Rob Walker about Moleskinerie.com (26 June 2005)
-An email from a former coworker that suggested my old bosses were going to come begging me to come back to work for them
-Job listing
-Email from former teacher about whether the papal apartments changed when Cardinal Ratzinger moved in
-My reply to former coworker's email
-Thank you card from inkednib.com for a recent order

My writing notebook only contains a few dollar bills and a 3-day pass to a gym that I picked up at my library. I may move some of the stuff from my journal's pocket into the writing notebook.

Both notebooks are large Moleskines with ruled paper.

[David]

I have two moleskine small notebooks. 1 is the reporter flip style used for work where there are phone numbers, sketches and dimensions of problems projects, comments to myself to remember to do and business cards and post-it notes with citizens phone numbers and noted problems.
In the second notebood which is full and been replace with a reporter style carried in my camera bag.the one that I just filled hold notes to myself on books I want to read, CD's I want to buy and listen to, and movies and musuems shows I want to make. Also poetry i have written and sketches of woodworking projects i want to try.
I tried PDA's and they were too incoveient.

[reverend ryan]

a 3x5 notecard with an alphabet i made up.
a picture of woody allen
my first barnes and noble pay stub
a picture of my little sister.

I used to have the standard wallet items in there, but I found that the M fell apart too quickly when jammed full of id's and cards, etc.

[J. Diniz]

On the pocket:

-ID
-drivers licence
-ATM
-VISA
-one bank check
-laminated reference sheet (profession)

On the first pages:
-blank 3x5s
-couple of photos

On the last pages:
-cash
-car documents
-color page markers
-assorted receipts

[Anonymous]

I work in a coffee shop. Recently, I decided to see what would happen if I saved $10 off the tips of every shift in my moleskine pocket, only withdrawing from the fund to pay for future moleskines. It's not been long but I'm already up to $70--I know it sounds stupid, since I could easily misplace the notebook and lose all that money, but since what I use the notebook FOR is far more valuable to me and would thus cause far more distress should I lose it, it's kind of a physical reminder that there are more important things than money.

Doesn't stop me thinking about what I might use it for one day, though. :)