Planner supplies are too much

I'm tired of sticky notes. I don't use them and they feel like they are cheap fillers in planner kits.

I tried using a planner and then realized I have no life. I mean, in a good way. I have one calendar on the fridge that has one dr.'s appt. on it and that is it for January. I am leaving on Saturday to head to Kansas to pick up a puppy, but I don't need a calendar for that! I think the businesses make their money on cutesy, over the top stuff. If they just did straight forward stuff, they wouldn't sell as much. It is too bad that they don't offer both though.

I don't have time to make a planner look cute. I have a calendar on the side of my frig and a small one with good size squares I keep in my purse. It's packed full with no room for cute. I do use colored highlighters. :/

I don't use my planner for a calendar. It's a great place to corral all my lists. I have stuff I HAVE to do today, stuff I need to do soon, stuff I'd like to get done, shopping lists, new book releases I want, a wish list of books, etc, etc.

I signed up for emails from Simple Stories. They have sent me some cute freebies to print myself.

This is me. I use an ink pen to write and that's it.

Yes! I'm so tired of everything planner, planner, planner. It just needs to stop. Please bring back relevant scrapping supplies.

I have a planner, a nice one. It's from Erin Condren. And I use it all the time. It has stuff in it through the end of Summer 2018. So I don't understand the planner kits for one month ahead. If you are a planner person can I ask how you use it? Is it meant to document your day to day or do you use it as a tool for planning in advance? Because my February and March are set, at this point I have no use for planner supplies for one month ahead.

On the rare occasion that planner stickers interest me, it is because I can use them on a page, not in a planner. I use my iPad calendar as a planner. That is it.

I don't have much crafty time as it is. I can't see spending it making a planner all cute. Besides, a physical planner is bulkier than my iPad. I used to have one. I was happy to give it up in favor of my iPad.

However, planner stickers do work for scrapbook pages, too. As you said, though, "Best Day ever" quotes, along with some others, are way overdone. The same is true of designs and phrases in the Silhouette Design Store.

I don't use a paper planner - would much rather use my iphone calendar and get reminders. I do use a traveller's notebook for listmaking - but I certainly don't have to decorate it!

I'm fascinated by the planner stuff - drawn in and repelled in almost equal measure! I follow quite a lot of different planner/bujo people on Instagram and look around at plenty of others trying to find styles that speak to me.

A lot of planner people set up their week in advance, decorating the page and adding in upcoming appointments and things. (Some on IG are decorated so heavily I can't figure out how they can fit in any useful info at all!) But a lot of people pencil in their plans and go back at the END of the week to create a page of memories and pretty stuff. Very few of the heavily decorated/perfect planner people are using their book as their only planner, from what I have seen. Many people do their pages as an art form rather than a practical tool. I admire the people who manage to achieve both. But I would guess that many people keep their appointments and reminders in their phones or on their computers as well.

I guess the thing I have realized is that planners, like lives, are very individual. The things I want to make note of are very different than what I see in planner products. I don't see my life reflected in those products at all. I like to note down all kinds of things that other people wouldn't bother with, and I don't need a bunch of other things that other people do or care about. I write a lot of what I did after the fact, filling in the gaps around the scheduled plans. I like to know what I did (like a diary) as much as I need to know what's coming up. I keep all of my diaries, planner, journals, and calendars.

I love the little stamps and stickers but I have my basic black pen right here and it only takes a moment for me to write down "book group" at which point I can't be bothered messing around stamping something with some books on it... and I never seem to have space once the week is done to add anything else in. I don't mind small decorative or motivational elements, but very few of them speak to me. I'm definitely not AC's target market. I can barely even add different pens or color, no matter how much I enjoy seeing other people's gorgeous pages.

I don't need a planner, I have a wife.

I don’t buy supplies for my planner. I use my scrappy stash. I use my planner to corral my life so I have a one stop shop of what I did when I do Project Life. I usually update my PL album in quarterly increments and I need the reminders. I’ll decorate my planner when I’m at my craft desk watching Cozi. It’s play time, nothing more. Plus I had a Plum Planner and it’s big with a lot of space. For 2018 I downsized to a small planner from Target. Less room so decorating is minimal -> non-existent.

I agree that the planner supplies are over the top and all the "inspiration" layouts I see are in no way practical, I can't see anyone actually doing that except to share as "inspiration" which drives me crazy--I hate when people scrapbook or any project just to show of the work for a design team or their blog and not because they actually want to create that page... sharing it online should be secondary to creating it for your album, planner, etc.

As far as supplies go, have you tried the clearly Kelly planner stamps from Kelly purkey? I got a ton of them on clearance at Michaels awhile ago and they are exactly the phrases you need. I prefer the stamps to stickers because they are 100% flat on the page, but it gets time consuming stamping everything out so I don't really do it anymore. Now I've switched to a bullet journal which I make pretty-ish with colorful pens and handlettering, but I don't add any additional stuff to the page (stickers, etc.) besides just pen/marker. Another stamp I used a lot when I was keeping a decorated planner was the rolling time stamp from Ali Edwards--that was useful for putting times on appointments. Besides the stamps and adding colored highlighting, etc., the stickers never really added anything and it was just time consuming to add them. I also felt like it was such a waste because once the week is up I rarely look back on it again.

Now I really prefer my bullet journal system. I keep monthly, weekly and daily logs, plus a future log. My daily logs are mostly to do lists with appointments added in when I have them. I love the free structure and although I make them "pretty" with decorative writing, etc., I don't worry about adding stickers, etc., instead my focus is on function. I won't go back to a regular planner.

Amen sister!!