Tonight turned into new planner night!
We always order planners from PersonalPlanner.com. I love them because they're super versitible, I can change layouts every year, and I've kept a birthday list so they get printed WITH BIRTHDAYS in it that also say how old the person is (if I remember to enter a birth year). It's great. This is 24-25:
This year I decided we would go for a bigger A4 size rather than A5. I'm excited for monster calendar... we need more writing space. We have lots of things and lots of kids.
It's a weekly Calendar and I always do a vertical date layout. The bottom box is for sport but we use it to plan meals. Sometimes we use the small writing section at the bottom to add meal suggestions for future weeks. For instance, we had beans tonight and it went well, so I'll add beans to the potential dinner list in two weeks because that's about the right interval for a beans dinner.
I don't like that Saturday and Sunday share a column, but I'm hoping the A4 size will mean there is enough room for everything.
The A4 size only comes in 12 months so I started it in September and it runs through August.
As I went to make the order Andy said it should start in October since our current planner already has September.
I thought he was joking.
School starts in September. Planners always need overlap. September (or January, or August) seems like the right time to order a new Planner.
Andy was insistent that I am the insane one because I am basically wasting a month of the old planner.
As a counterpoint, we have things planned in September already and I feel it's a valuable use of space to have a calendar overlap. I am happy moving these things to the new calendar.
As Andy's counterpoint, I am wasting 1/13th the price of the 13 month calendar if I just start the next calendar in September.
So, internetland, help me. Do you do a month overlap in calendars? Would you get a 13 month calendar and move it forward every month? Andy does have a point that every 12 years we would basically have a free calendar of single months, but also... I love a new calendar in September. September calendars are the best.
I do calendar year planners and there is never any overlap. (But I find myself making oodles of notes in the back of my current planner about things upcoming for next year ALREADY! It's May of 2025.)
ReplyDeleteMy Hobonichi weeks overlaps. Quite a bit actually - the monthly spread overlaps by three months and the weekly by one month. I think it just encourages me to procrastinate on buying a new planner - the first few months of the new planner are always empty because I'm using the old planner. I should contemplate a September start planner, though - it makes more sense because both the school year and my work season start in September.
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to side with Andy on this one! Or maybe just order a 12 month calendar every year (do you get a discount) and make it Sept to Aug? I think I like that option best, as if you never have overlap, but you always have the 13 month calendar, each year it will be a different period, which would drive me crazy. If the only option is 13 months....hmm... maybe it is better to have consistency. Who decided on a 13 month calendar anyway? 12, 24...that would make sense. 13 is kind of strange.
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