Friday, September 18th, was day 30 with my Life Planner.
Updates of how I am using it, what I've changed since last time, and how well the unofficial covers are working.
During the first month, I kept my planner on a table and used it through out the day. Keep that in mind when you look at the condition of the pages and such.
To start, the Harry Potter Subway Art covers are working just as good as they did on day one--which it great! I moved my fun paper clips to a new large pencil bag and pulled out the HP Subway Art dashboard and set it aside for now. I might find a use for it later, I moved it around a lot before I took it out, but for now, it sits with my HP books on a shelf.
Remember, you can buy these covers at
Small Box of Treasures on Etsy, $20 for the three piece set and $15 for just the covers. Check out everything else in the shop because they are so stinkin' cute!
So, one of the first things I did was write down Tom's schedule for school and work on card stock and put it in my planner. I used washi tape to decorate it (Blue and Yellow, school colors!) and used two Clips to attach it to my planner. Tip: when applying two Clips to one card, stick the first Clip to the card, put it in, put in the second where you want it, then take off the sticky and apply it. I didn't measure it out that way so now that card is slightly lumpy.
I know my color coding, I've been using it for more than a year, so I put it to the front of my planner. It is now out of the way and will be easy to use again later.
September month, showing that Day 30 is finished. I always just X out days past, I found one line wasn't enough for me.
Recently we were shopping for a new vehicle; I started to use the Clips for business cards and would put them were I had notes for when I needed to make calls. This made things so much easier.
Another auto salesman's card. You can also see the cute little card that says "Our 6th Anniversary Plans." I bought journaling cards from Walmart,
similar to
these, and I have started to use them in my planner. Five bucks for a big stack of fun card to use, YES PLEASE!
I moved the bookmark to mark the month I am on and you can see another card that I now use as my "This Week" marker. It says, "Hello Life" and has lines to write a cute note to yourself. You may notice that "focus" is misspelled. That is on purpose. It's to remind myself that even though I am striving to have patience and be focused, I will mess up and that's okay, as long as I work to be better continually.
This was the first full week of use. You can see that I use flag stickers to point out fun things. I also used check off flags to point out important things. I don't like to use things like this for fun but to point out important things. This helps me to remember what needs to be done. My planner is for keeping mine and my family's lives organized, not for me to uselessly use up stickers and washi tape.
PS-
One day, I was moving around my bookmark and then it started to feel lumpy at the bottom, as if it had melted. I got a little panicked ("How did I melt it?!") but then I realized that there is a protective film on it. Just FYI to those that buy one. Just so you won't think that your bookmark is melting like I did.
(It does get hot in South Texas, it wasn't as far fetched an idea as you might think.)
PPS-I have a larger bag now so I will be carrying my planner with me. Stay tuned to see the difference from Month One of Use on a Desk--compared to--Month Two of Use in a Diaper Bag, Desk, Lap, and Everywhere Else. Excited to see it!
