Several craft stores always have 40% off coupons too. The paper trimmer I bought was regularly priced at $7.99 but was on a 50% off sale so my total was only $4.23. It has a pull-out ruler so I can easily find the 5.5″ mark for cutting my paper in half, and a blade that slides up and down that works like a charm. I bought a nice paper trimmer at Hobby Lobby that’s been working perfectly. The scrapbooking areas of craft stores are a great place to look for this tool. I quickly learned that if I was going to make my own half size paper, I needed a good paper cutter! My scissors method that I started with just wasn’t giving me the nice clean edges that I wanted. The Arc notebooks also come in a larger size for a full sheet piece of paper. (more about that in the next post on the printable pages). This is “half-size” paper, which is great for making your own pages because it’s simply a standard sized 8.5×11 piece of paper that most of us have around the house for our printers, but cut in half. I couldn’t find any empty notebooks at my local store (just the cover and discs) so I bought the one with some lined paper in it and paid $7.99. I like the smaller planners so I bought an Arc notebook in the “junior” size (6-3/8″ x 8-3/4″). #1 – Arc Junior Size Notebook in Hibiscus Design Here are the supplies I bought so I could begin to make my own planner: It allows for LOTS of customization which is just what I was looking for. This has the wonderful advantage of letting you take pages in and out and make changes as needed. I was excited to discover the Arc notebook system at Staples (and I’m not being paid by Staples, I just think this system is pretty cool!) It’s a system with “discs” that keeps things together rather than being spiral bound. Click here for the free 2017 free printable planner pagesīut first, I thought I would give some info on the supplies that I needed to buy to get myself set up with a system for my homemade planner pages. With that in mind, I’ve been hard at work making my own printable planner pages, and I’ll be sharing those in the next post. Basically I just want to write a daily To-Do list, I want to remember if I have to be somewhere at a certain time, and I want things to be clean and simple with enough open visual space that my eyes can easily spot what I’ve written. I’m going to make my own planner so I can customize it more to my wants and needs. So this time around, in the hopes of staying productive and well organized and actually using my planner, I’m going to try something a little different. *Raising my hand over here – yup, it’s happened* You start out with high hopes and then just slowly drift away from it, using it less and less. Them darn planners.īut seriously, it’s frutrating when once again you discover you have a planner (maybe an expensive one!) that just doesn’t seem to fit your lifestyle or the way you think. Funny thing, you have to keep writing in them for them to work good. Planners are handy tools for keeping organized.
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