Slow Bag Accessories
You can buy these from us only as add-ons to a Slow Bag order. We don’t make a profit on these items! We just think they enhance the Slow Bag experience.
Cafe Butt Cushion: $5
This piece of high-density foam turns hostile “Customer Flow Management” seating into a comfy place to sit for a few hours. Yes, it’s a piece of camping sleeping pad, but we cut it to the perfect size for your Slow Bag.
Kokuyo Semi B5 Soft Ring Notebook: $8 (80 pages) or $15 (160 pages)
We fill one of these Japanese notebooks every few months. Why they are absolutely worth ~10 cents per page:
- Soft rings don’t irritate the heel of your writing hand.
- Dotted rule means it works as graph paper for precise tables and drawings, or as regular lined paper for notes.
- Subtle perforations hold the pages in tight but allow clean separation when you need it.
- The ideas, plans, and reflections that you’re about to write are worth way more than 10 cents.
Example of how we use these:
We like the slimmer 80 page notebooks because they’re lighter to carry, and it’s 50% less sad if we spill tea on it.
Jetstream SXE3-507 3 Color Pen - Greige: $10
Jetstream ink is a pareto improvement over whatever you’ve been writing with. You get the low-drag, effortless feeling that you’d expect from a gel or liquid ink pen, but somehow it is still an oil-based ballpoint pen: smear-resistant, waterproof, and won’t leak out on a plane. Most of the Jetstream pen bodies try to look like a spaceship or running shoe, but this one is unobtrusive. It has a high-capacity black refill flanked by smaller blue and red refills.
We’re including a spare black refill. After that, get your refills from jetpens dot com.
0.5 mm is goldilocks for us – 0.7 mm drags a bit more and 0.35 mm feels scratchy.
16 oz. Urban Nalgene: $16
You’re going to the library, not crossing the Mojave. Carry a non-adventure-size bottle so you won’t accidentally drink a liter and have to piss every 30 minutes. It’s the perfect size for the Slow Computer and also fits snugly in bicycle bottle holders.
To keep any water bottle from smelling bad: let it dry out frequently, especially the part where you put your mouth. Don’t leave the cap on for days. When you get home, unscrew the cap and let the threads dry. (You can also put these in the dishwasher.) We recommend buying two bottles so that you can use one while the other is drying out.
KOPPLA 3-outlet power strip: $6
Smol strip gets you 2 feet further from the outlet, and enables acts of kindness where outlets are scarce.