I needed a new planner for 2016. For the past couple of years, I've wound up going to Walmart and buying one exactly like the one I had the year before, which I guess is fine but I wanted something a little different, even if that was only the color of the cover. This year I tried a few different stores and couldn't even find the kind I used last year.
So I went online and WOW! I didn't realize that planners were such a big huge deal. I found some gorgeous ones that were way out of the price range for a gal who invariably loses her planner halfway through the year and winds up writing notes on the blank pages of last year's book until she finds it again. I want a planner with a full page for each day, not because my days are all that busy, but I wind up using the space for lists and designing quilts and all sorts of stuff. Weird system, but it's mine and I like it.
The best one I found on Amazon was for moms and had "motherhood tips and checklists included throughout publication." The sample in the description was a page of safety tips for packed lunches. I don't pack many lunches -- that's one of the perks of homeschooling. And if I did pack lunches, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't need a page in my planner reminding me to clean my cutting board after using it for raw meat. But that's the planner that was in my shopping cart until I took one last look at the grocery store and found a planner with a separate page for each day.
Last Sunday night, I pulled it out to transfer the important stuff from last year's calendar and realized that it has a page for each day, but there are no actual calendars. How did I not see that? There's also no page for phone numbers -- but there's a list of all of the holidays for the next two years. I don't have the energy to take it back and I kind of want to have a planner right now, so I'm going to print out some calendar pages and glue them in on the pages for October thru December of 2015.
I have a feeling that I'll be designing my own planner pages for next year. There are pages to help you track absolutely everything ever, but I don't think there's one set that'll cover managing a house and blog, designing quilts, and also homeschool schedules for three kids. I'm sure I can come up with something that will work very well!
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Designing your own seems like a great idea. Good luck with it.
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain about finding a good planner - that was at a decent price. I went through the motions of trying to remember where I got mine last year and guess they were all sold out at every shop I tried. I refused to pay upward of $20 for a good simple planner. I got a fancy one from a friend for Christmas, but I wanted to use that for my quilting business exclusively. But, guess what -- it is now my one and only planner for my entire busy schedules, no matter what it is!
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of creating your own to suit your needs.
Hi Michelle, you might be interested in a design-your-own planner system called bullet journal (you can do an Internet search for more info). It doesn't take any fancy supplies, just a plain inexpensive notebook of your own choice.
ReplyDeleteI know what you have been experiencing. I started with getting a planner I like and realized that it wasn't going to fulfill my needs and like the comment before, I found out about the bullet journal system. I tweaked it to fix me. I just got done writing a post yesterday a little about how.
ReplyDeleteDo a search on Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube or Facebook and see if that is something that might work for you too. I just love it is working out for me.
You might be able to print one of the calendar's from here. http://www.practicallyfunctional.com/so-creative-21-ways-to-get-organized-for-the-new-year/
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