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Hoshino's 5-Year Techo
Hi everyone. Todayfs Techo News is about how Hobonichi Techo team member Hoshino uses her 5-Year Techo.
Hoshino started using her 5-Year Techo in 2018. She opens her techo after breakfast, looks back on her entries for the past few years, and briefly writes about how the day before was.
Below are 
Hoshinofs comments.
£My 5-Year Techo set. Fountain pen that I choose depending on my mood, pencil board in place of a bookmark, and blotting paper.
To be honest, there were days when I didn't feel like writing. However, from my second year, it was interesting to be able to look back on the year before, and sometimes even find days where I had done the exact same thing. Ifm glad I pushed through and wrote every day. I feel that the 5-Year Techo gets way more interesting from the second year.
£My techo has puffed up nicely over the years.
How I use the pages on the right side
The right side of the Hobonichi 5-Year Techo are blank pages. At first, I wasnft sure how to use it, but have settled to write in things that didnft fit in the left pages, or paste things that I want to look back on throughout the five years.
More recently Ifve decided to boldly paste thick postcards or things that fill up the whole page.
£A postcard I received during lockdown.
£A sticker that was pasted on a snack that my mother bought me, and a drawing that someone drew for me on a package that was sent to me at work.
£A saying that was on a page-a-day calendar that made me surprised.
£Lyrics of gBridge Over Troubled Waterh that I listened to for the first time in a long time.
I still have lots of blank pages though, so I might paste and write something everyday in my fifth year.
The gMy Listsh at the back of the book
The 5-Year Techo includes a page named gMy Listsh where you can create lists of a theme of your choice.
I made a list of places I want to go during the five years, and I currently have ticked off one place, Russia.
It might not seem a lot considering Ifve used it for more than 3 years, but Russia is a country that I wanted to go since I was a teenager so it was a big step for me.
£I always dreamed of going to Russia. My chosen destination was Vladivostok.
I also recommend writing a list of food to cheer you up when youfre feeling low.
These things are actually quite easy to forget when youfre not feeling your best.
The fun of the 5-Year Techo comes from seeing how you overlap with, or differ from your past self. 5-Year Techo users in your 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year, how is your techo from the second year onwards?
Now might be a time when you're feeling less motivated to write everyday (and there's definitely no need to do so of course) but we hope you enjoy writing in it so it'll be more exciting for your future self!
The start of the Stationery Club
Hi everyone! This is Asako again.
Recently, several Hobonichi Techo team members who like stationery got together to create a Stationery Club. Our club activities would include talking about stationery (goes without saying), find stationery thatfs perfect for the techo, and think of new products. We hope to connect with stationery-lovers across the world to exchange information on stationery too.
Once we started talking, we couldnft stop.
gThe color scheme of the Clickart pens are on point!h
gThe pens that recently came out from Muji have such cute colors!h
gI want to try out pen calligraphy thatfs on the Tombow ABT website!h
gA pen that I canft live without is the Frixion pen!h
gThere seems to be lots of cute stationery shops in Ogikubo!h
... The topics are endless.
We went to buy a techo to use for our club activities at Tobichi. We all look serious here, picking out which pencil board we should go for.
Therefll be a new series of articles named the gHobonichi Stationery Clubh starting really soon. Wefve been taking photos and creating content for it recently.
Pens, stickers, pencil sharpeners, correction tape and magnets...
When we brought all of our favorite stationery, the table soon became a huge mess.
These are drawing tools that Annen 
loves using. All the colors make it fun to see!
These are a collection of Silly Bandz I own (who remembers them?)
We found ourselves exclaiming how cute each item is and putting the shoot on halt.
There are lots of content ideas we want to try. We already feel ourselves immersing ourselves into the world of stationery.
We also started an exchange diary - a diary where you write entries among a group of friends and pass it around (this was popular when we were in elementary school). This brings back all the memories...!
We aim to create a fun series and may be also asking you not only for your recommended stationery, but your thoughts on stationery and questions you may have. We hope you look forward to it!
Welcome to the Hobonichi Techo News!
Hi everyone! My name is Asako, and I'm in the techo team at Hobonichi. (The face you see on the top right is an icon of me - a crew member draws all of our faces into these cute icons when we enter the company. Rumour has it that even though we might not look like the icon at first, our faces will gradually look more like it as the years go by...! As for me, I think I look pretty much the same.)
You might be wondering what this page is. Well, this is a place where I and a few other techo team members will be discussing anything related to the techo, from usage examples of crew members, recommended stationery and more. I might be talking about the pens I'm currently using on one day, and introducing you to how to use the Cover on Cover on another. Please think of it as a really casual blog!
So, to start off, the Spring (April-start edition) Hobonichi Techos have been available for sale starting from this month. From a very cute Dorami-chan cover to the practical Weeks Case - Mokku, we've brought out products that might make your techo life a bit more fun. (You can see the previews from here)
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A question that might have popped in your minds is "Why April-start?"
In Japan, the new school year starts in April, unlike many countries with their school years starting in September. Fiscal years also start in April, making spring the season of the start of something new. While many of us (including myself) use the January-start techo, people working in the field of education, students, or parents whose child still goes to school, tend to opt for the April-start techos. It's also nice that you get a second chance to start a techo ? if you found out about a particular techo in February of March, you get to start using it in April without wasting the first few months!
So, that's all I've got for today. We aim to post every Wednesday, so I hope you look forward to future posts!
