do you buy bookmarks? or do you just cut out any piece of spare cardboard

I have loved reading all my life and when I was young, oh how I did covet store bought bookmarks! I never got to buy any as mom said it was a waste of money, make my own. I did, but it just wasn't the same! Now that I can buy my own for hte past 30 years, have I? No, I still just make my own - whatever I have laying around the house at the time! Envelope from a bill I paid online, coupon I won't use, tag from a blouse... but I have been guilty of using wallet photos of my grand daughter. Shame on me, they should be in an album, but if they are there, I will use them! I go to Borders about once/twice a week just to see their sale stuff as I continue my love of reading by encouraging my GD's to read and the yard sales this year were slim pickings for books, but I was going to buy my 8you GD a book mark for her stocking and they were $5.00! I thought I'd choke! $5 for this little nothing piece of paper? What a waste of money, she loves crafts so she can make her own at our next craft session... and I can hear my mom in my head saying "see, I told you so, but did you believe me, oh, no!".

Actually I do neither. I will usually just fold the corner of the page that I stop reading on.

I use to buy bookmarks, especially if I see a really cute one. But now, I make them out of cross stitch! And I even sell them online.

I usually don't buy bookmarks - rather expensive; except those that are sold for charity homes. I use different things as bookmarks, like unwanted business cards, post-it notes, small pieces of paper, postcards.

It's funny that you mentioned "the nice Hallmark ones" because I used to work at Hallmark. Bookmarks were under me, and I have designed a few haha! anyway, I love to read but most of the time I don't have a bookmark handy so i just use anything (business card, bus pass, flyer etc.) as an insert to remind me on what page i am. This is kinda weird because I have a bookmark collection that i never seem to use.

if i have enough time i make 1 or more depends upon whom i will give it too-i prefer personalized to give more meaning to it, but if i dnt have time i will just grab it from the bookstore or card shop..i will just address it using my penmanship.. i am a hand crafter so most of the time i alot time to make a personalized one esp for holidays like christmas and bitrhdays.

i never buy bookmarks. ive seen some very lovely ones that i liked, but would never actually use in my books. they are usually to thick and would keep the book from closing all the way when i set it down..which makes the binding kind of stand slightly opened..which drives me insane lol! i just cut a piece of very thin paper to use as a bookmark.

My fiance and I actually do neither. We use any scrap piece of paper we have laying around, recently it was the number to a friend of ours who had changed his number. I do like to just use something around the house as while the bookmarks are cute, they aren't really needed. If I get one as a gift, I won't neglect it.

Hi there. I can't remember the last time I bought bookmarks since I usually design and make them myself. I simply make the image on my computer through simple applications such as Word or MSPaint - nothing fancy, really - then print the image out on photo-paper or some other specialized paper and have it laminated. I find that it's more durable that way and would serve its purpose for a longer time than if I were to buy standard Hallmark bookmarks.