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Holiday Market @ HQ Saturday

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Staple Day 27

December 5, 2025 by Jim

Staple Day 27: Look at it this way, it took us fifteen years and 69 releases to figure out we could put the staples on the short side of a memo book.

Short Version: 1943, Deal, Pod, J’Accuse, Mother Road, Wrap, Poetry & Prose, Chronological, 60642

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HQ Events

Holiday Market 2025

We’re hosting our annual Holiday Market at Field Notes HQ in Chicago on Saturday, December 13th. We have invited a bunch of our friends who make cool things be here. And we’re inviting you too! – Dec. 3rd, 2025

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Field Notes

25% Off Site Wide Sale

Right now we’re having a Site Wide Sale and just about everything in our shop is 25% off. No minimums. No promo codes. No BS. Just load up your cart and save 25% on your holiday shopping. – Nov. 28th, 2025

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Quarterly Limited-Editions

Counting to Fifty

You never know what will come from a casually made decision. I called my friend and occasional co-conspirator, Aaron Draplin, after he had sent me a handmade pack of kraft-colored “Field Notes,” and suggested that perhaps we should produce a short run of them and offer them for sale online. Within a couple weeks, we were up and running. – Aug. 3rd, 2021

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Wednesday Murder Club Update

From the Field Notes “Murder Book’s” back cover: Solve a crime at the scene of an All Hallow’s feast, Name the killer and weapon that felled the deceased. – Nov. 24th, 2025

Staple Day 26 - I always say Vintage and Modern are both great, but Retro is usually a disappointing compromise.

Monthly Newsletter

Staple Day 26

TLDR Version: Deadline for Murder, Disarray, A Deal, Forensic Design, Writing for Home, Leads & Lists, Frank and Rembrandt and Jeff, Market at 401 North Racine. – Nov. 13th, 2025

Staple Day 25 - The events of our life are like photographic negatives. The few that make it into the developing solution and become photographs are what we call our memories.

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Staple Day 25

TLDR Version: Redrum, Abracadabra, Sub Deal, Paper Flowers, Write-Only Memory, On a Whim, Developments, Pinned, Racine & Kinzie. – Oct. 15th, 2025

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