Okay, so here’s the subject very near and dear to my heart. This is the saga bum, bum, bum, of how I came to be a planner girl and my first introduction into the planner world. So, let me start by saying I have almost always had a paper planner. I tried electronic planners for a little tiny bit
it just didn’t work for me. The tactile experience of having a piece of paper that I wrote on in my hands works for me. I try to make sure that I always have one that fits in my purse easily and that I don’t go overboard with stickers or embellishments. They are great to make things pretty or to identify things but other than that I really try to keep it in simple. Don’t you think it’s amazing all the different ways women in the planner community have found to plan.

My Start

How did I start in the planner world? It started for me at age 12 so I have had a planner for 21 years. Not the same planner but some form of paper planner for 21 years. It’s amazing to me that I’ve had one for so long. I even have my old high school pocket sized ring bound (pretty sure I bought it at Claire’s. So, I was going somewhere this story and I kind of lost track. Anyhow, my first year of junior high I was given a planner, it was a big 8.5”by 11” coil bound thing that was the length of the school year. There were little boxes for your parents to initial that they saw teacher notes for kids with disciplinary issues. Also, there were little notes columns and I believe it even came with a little sheet of like 10 stickers for events like your birthday and a couple for vacations, exams and due dates for projects. At the time I still had a stash of Lisa Frank stickers and I’ll tell you what I put my stash to work in there, but it was still minimal. It was functional but a little cute which still sums up my planning style to this day.

Hooked

When I got high school, they gave us a smaller planner it was about A5 but still coil bound. As a lefty I figured out that a the coil bound planners would not work for me. So I bought my first ring bound Sophomore or Junior year of high school. From that point on I was hooked. In college I mostly used the back to school (aka Cheap) editions. Every year I’d purchased a new one with no real rhyme or reason. These days I call those the dark days of my planning as it was 100% function only and while I hated to look at it, I have to admit it worked well.

So that’s my story of how I became a planner girl what’s yours?