Planning tips if you dont have time to bullet journal or want more structure or want something less expensive. To those who do want to bullet journal but dont have the means to get a fancy shmancy notebook, there is a cheap alternative to the leuchtturm book at walmart and since they habe collaborated with a youtuber they have put out a better product from the last notebooks they had. The notebook is exceed they have dots and look quite similar to leuchtturm. I definitely recommend checking it out.
Alright here is my tip and a mini story time. I really wanted a planner that didnt have days of the week or daily pages. All i wanted was a plannar with months. This proved to be extremely difficult. I looked at staples and office depot and couldnt find what i was looking for. The prices ranged from around $30-$14 which is a lot of money if u ask me. I decided i needed to go to the stores to check out the planners. I asked my friend who has a car if we could check out both places, so we went to office depot first. Nothing... then we went to staples, where I looked for like 20 mins. We only payed for like 30 mins of parking so i was looking kind of frantically for something that i could use. I finally was about to call it a day when i decided to take one last sweep through the whole store. This is when i noticed a shelf at the end of an aisle that had travelers notebook looking notebooks. Normally you buy a nice cover and then you buy inserts. Its a way to customize your planner. I was thinking that I didn't want to get the whole cover and multiple inserts, but it dawned on me that i didn't have to, so i just got the insert. This was like $7, I want to say it was around $4, but I can't find the price on the website anymore, so I'd rather round up a lot. This insert has like 3 years worth of calendar spreads, so I think its it's definitely worth getting.
Now for why I even wanted this type of planner. I don't have tasks to do everyday, so for me, having daily pages just isn't worth it. Then you may ask why not have the weekly pages, and to that i say because I like being able to see the overview of the whole month and the weeks at the same time. I got a packet of weekly spread stickies and i use those every week and I put it on the month spread. I used to love bullet journaling, but i have no time for it, and if I start one and don't continue with it, it stresses me out and i become unhappy. I have color coded all my classes so i can just write deadlines on my monthly calendar and whenci look at it, I immediately know what what subjects ill be focusing on for the week.
This is a very long post, but i hope ive explained things enough and thats its all understandable. This is a very inexpensive way to plan and it doesnt take up a lot of time. Of course you can decorate it which I do when i have time. I love seeing a beautiful bullet journal spread, but usually, the notebook is expensive and the process is time intensive. I wanted to give this as an option for those who need something more on the go and readu for action right out of the bag. I use muji pens that my roommate from last year got me, and some sarasa pens. I really dont use the zebra mildliners, so im glad i didn't get a huge pack. I really love the uni propus highlighters because of the beautiful colors and the little window it has to see what you're highlighting. My favorite pencil since middle school is the pentel twist erase with 0.5 graphite but it comes in 0.7 as well. Hopefully this has been informative and gives you some ideas for planners in the future. I just realized that this is in time for the new years, so that's a fun surprise. I love you all, and i can't believe ive been a part of this community for about 4 or 5 years now! Thank you again for the followers, it means so much to me that you all want to see my content, or the things that I reblog so thanks!!