USING POST-IT NOTES IN A BULLET JOURNAL
Hey, it’s me again, and this time I’m here with some suggestions for how to use Post-Its in your bullet journal. This isn’t sponsored content, by the way: I just really like using Post-It notes in my Bullet Journal and I want to show you how I use them!
1) Tracking food spending
I had a lot of trouble at the start of the year keeping a track of my budget, as logging every single daily expense took up too much space and I needed to find a convenient way of keeping my spending for meals all in one place, as I didn’t want to have to mess around with receipts the whole time. Instead, I came up with this system, where I write in the cost of every meal, as well as any snacks I bought during the day, with additional space on the side for the cost of my weekly shop (so I could have a way of tracking expenses on meals I cooked myself). Meals out are logged separately, because they’re not such a common and everyday occurrence. This also allows me to figure out daily/weekly averages for food spending, which is super useful for figuring out my budget for the next month.
The reason I put this onto a post-it note is that I can put it into my weekly spreads without sacrificing any space for my to-do lists every day, and I can move it around and take it out when I want to log my total spending every week across the whole month.
This is from my December spread, where the weeks are on one page rather than across two, as it’s a holiday. On the left, you can see my academic holiday to-do list, but every month I also have a post-it note with a non-academic to-do list, whether for things to buy, or people to make appointments with without a specificdate attached. This helps me to keep track of the things I need to do over the month that don’t need to be done on/for a certain day, which I personally find completely invaluable.
The reason I put this on a Post-It instead of its own spread in the bullet journal is because I can keep it on my weekly spreads without having to transfer anything every week, and I don’t have to keep flipping to a certain page in the bullet journal to find the things I need to do this month.
3) Shopping lists, plans and ideas for spread layouts, etc.
This is clearly a super-obvious use for post-its in your bullet journal, but is worth a mention nonetheless. As you can see in the picture, I use post-its for planning how I’m going to lay out my budget (and how to lump spending together in the case of meals as above), as well as a list of super-exciting things that I need to buy at some point (including The Hobbit as Gaeilge don’t judge me).
It’s quite good to have post-its in this sense because you don’t need to put your messy scribbles straight into the journal, meaning you can move them around and get rid of them whenever you want without the risk of losing them in the meantime.
If you have any other suggestions for how to use post-its in your bullet journal, please add them at the bottom of this post and share them!
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