Planning For The Planner
Here’s where I’m going to go off on a mundane, yet relevant (to me), subject manner a la’ Andy Rooney on “60 Minutes.” The year 2009 is drawing to a close and this means that I will have to purchase a new planner. I don’t want anything technical or fancy. I like my planners old-school, Franklin Covey style. Here’s my problem…I can NEVER find a planner that I like.
I have a very nice, afore mentioned, Franklin Covey leather planner. All I have to do is buy the inserts for it. Sounds easy, right? WRONG! First of all, the inserts cost around $30 for nothing more than a bunch of paper bound together with wire. And I ONLY use the month by month section. I don’t need all the other crap which consists of weekly planners (completely useless to me), SIX pages of international holidays (like I give a flying crap when Denmark celebrates Easter…April 10), three pages of “Inspirational Quotes,” a page on weights and measurements (REALLY?), a world map of time zones (everyone I know lives in a two-state distance of me), four pages of blank notes (what the hell am I taking notes on…am I in school?), and a bunch of “names and addresses” pages. Jesus Christ! I DO NOT need all this, but do you think I can find a planner that doesn’t include all this shit? Nope. Am I alone in thinking planners could be WAY more streamlined and therefore, less expensive?
At least I won’t make the same mistake I did a couple of years ago and buy the “Woman’s Point of View” planner, which gave me tips on how to be a more powerful woman on a monthly basis complete with quotes by famous women (yes, Oprah was in there.) It was the only planner left on the shelf or I wouldn’t have spent an entire year using it. I think it even included a place to record my cycle. Yes, that was a LONG year.
I have almost exactly the same problems, except with planners I can fit in my hip pocket. I had one once that I really liked but the new sets of inserts were too expensive and then became impossible to find as well. For years now I’ve suffered with ones that I don’t really like. It occurs to me that there may be a marketing idea here… I’ll put that idea in my planner ha.
Somewhere, buried deep between the pages telling you how to convert Chinese money to Zambia money, and the list of Guatemalan folk myths, is a page telling you how to order inexpensive inserts for the planner. And probably a coupon, too.
i got a new planner today. it’s called the crackberry curve.