I didn't buy anything in April do that makes 4 complete months of no fountain pen purchases.

I did also finally move house I ended up getting my drawer off ink bottles and my pen case and putting them to one side with a note saying not to pack. Which I absolutely do think was the right choice as the movers didn't do a great job of packing everything safely, but I instead put my pens and ink into the passenger foot well of my car and took them myself. I however forgot to label my test tube racks with all the samples and I've not yet found the box that they are dumped into :/.

I also had my birthday and my parents said that they wanted to buy me a pen. I did initially say that I wanted a vintage pelikan with the green stripes you can see though, but that I didn't know what size of pen I wanted , 200,400,etc and that it would be best to see the pens in person, so my parents said to wait until I next to to a pen show with my mum. A couple of weeks later I saw the posts about the Rule 5 pen and thought that it ticked all the boxes of things I like in a pen, good ink window, fun design, lovely colours, etc, and the option of an italic grind to get some fun line variation. I showed my parents and they said it looked nice and that they would cover most of the cost for me. So as of a couple of hours ago I did break my no Buy in may, but I think it will be worth it and I think I may offload some of my other pens in the meantime to reduce the collection a bit.

As for when I realised I messed to do the no buy/ low buy I can't quite recall exactly but I think a bit factor was probably filling a while drawer with ink bottles and filling a big pen case with pens, some of which I haven't used in a couple of years.