It is almost August as well as time for 2022 planners to be available, so I thought it would be nice to give a full review of all my planners that I used this year and what my plan is for next year.
Just as an overview I have been using one Hobonichi Mega Weeks, one regular Hobonichi Weeks, and a Hobonichi A6 English Techo.
To start I got the Hobonichi Mega Weeks for personal chores, housework/housekeeping, and tracking expenses. The calendar was used to track holidays, birthdays, vacations, and events. The daily rows were for me to write my chores, events, and when I was hanging out. The note page on the other side was to write all my expenses that week and budget my paycheck when it comes in. The extra pages were used for writing all the random items I wanted to buy and the reasons why, which helped me stop impulse buying a lot, and reviewing my budget every month. I love how I have been using this and I feel like I can add even more.
I plan on continuing to have a Hobonichi Mega Weeks but I will add my TCGPLAYER online shop TsubakiCards, my Mercari, and all the little bits of side hustles. My paycheck budget will also be moved to the extra pages so any side hustles expenses can be on the same page as my personal expenses. Next year I might reorganize the extra pages by month so it will be easier to keep track of when I wanted to buy something and how my budget changes month to month. I want this to be my overall planner where everything else besides my day job lives. My day job is in a FiloFax and there is nothing to talk about there cause it’s boring but it works for me.
The regular Hobonichi Weeks was only used to track tasks for my TCGPLAYER shop and side hustles but it failed because there is not that much to write about in general. My small tasks of shipping orders every other day barely fills the rows and my expenses for the shop are very far and in between making the book very empty even in the calendar as trading card release dates are sprinkled around.
This will not be continued as a separate weeks but combined in the Hobonichi Mega Weeks. I plan on using different ink colors to separate my side hustles and to make it look more organized. This kinda works out cause I am trying not to spend a lot during the next Hobonichi release cause of how high shipping is.
Last but not least is my Hobonichi A6 English Techo. I loved this so much, I have been writing, drawing, and pasting ephemera every single day in here so are no major issues. However, I do not like that the format gives me less space on the page with the quote at the bottom and how big the heading is at the top. I also stopped using the calendar altogether and the tracker in the front, I just never keep up with it plus I have the calendar in the Weeks to use.
This format will be continued but with a Stalogy 365 in A6 size as it is fountain pen friendly and gives me more of the page. It also doesn’t have monthly calendars so each and every page of this will be just my journaling. I will see if it can handle everything I stuff in my journal and will update if it works.
Let me know what are your planner and journal plans for next year! Thank you for reading and until next time, stay hyped!
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