You know you're an origamist when...

NoahRatcl · Post by **NoahRatcl** » July 4th, 2010, 9:35 pm

it deeply bothers you when you get a pamphlet from anywhere and it hasn't been folded precisely (and consequently, you re-fold it).

This has happened to me several times, and once, we had an assignment at school-make a vacation pamphlet. Several of my friends came to me because they couldn't figure out how to fold a paper into thirds!

Tavin · Post by **Tavin** » July 5th, 2010, 12:37 pm

-when girls you never spoke to ask you if they could have one of those cute [insert origami model]

-you're not leaving the house without at least one sheet of kami

-you always know where to get foldable paper asap

-you find it hard to throw away paper

-if someone throws paper away, you stop him and say: "wait, I still can use this!"

Mrs02l · Post by **Mrs02l** » July 5th, 2010, 7:30 pm

when you tell your husband that the paper speaks to you and tells you what it wants to be folded into and he looks at you like youre insane.

Or when your mother in law ask you what you want for your birthday and you reply an iron and a blender...when she proceeds to tell you that those are not proper birthday gifts you launch into how you're going to make your own paper.

Post by **origami_8** » July 5th, 2010, 8:39 pm

What for do you need an iron for making your own paper, wouldn't a press be better?

Mrs02l · Post by **Mrs02l** » July 6th, 2010, 12:21 am

well I bought the book Origami bonsai and it mentioned using water color paint to paint your paper, having painted with water paint before I know it curls paper and thought an iron would help flatten it out again. I never even thought of a press but that would work better.

Razzmatazz · Post by **Razzmatazz** » July 6th, 2010, 12:34 am

You know you are an origamist when:

Girls hand you little slips of paper with 7 numbers on them and you fold them into something and give them back. They usually frown at you.

eric_son · Post by **eric_son** » July 6th, 2010, 11:22 am

Razzmatazz wrote:You know you are an origamist when:

Girls hand you little slips of paper with 7 numbers on them and you fold them into something and give them back. They usually frown at you.

You made me spill some coffee on the keyboard!

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » July 6th, 2010, 11:25 am

Razzmatazz wrote:You know you are an origamist when:

Girls hand you little slips of paper with 7 numbers on them and you fold them into something and give them back. They usually frown at you.

That one's just epic,I got to remember that!I can barely type this!

Origamist388 · Post by **Origamist388** » July 11th, 2010, 6:34 pm

...you FOLD every hand at a poker game

kevin89 · Post by **kevin89** » July 11th, 2010, 8:57 pm

-you have to unfold every "dog-ear" of every dollar bill you get, and then proceed to flatten it
-you see something and start figuring out how to fold it, thinking of the various node arrangements, etc
-you get annoyed at every slightly off-folded pamplet
-you have hundreds or thousands of pieces of paper in your house, but none you can write a message on
-if you have some normal lined paper, and you freak out if someone is holding a cup of water/liquid nearby
-every dollar that you see or hold, (even for a second), you think about it's worthyness to be folded and what it would be best folded as
-a large fan could send your entire room out the window/door
-you know when anyone has said the word "fold", (or any other word associated with origami), within a two mile radius