Planner Obsession: Simply Yours Day Planner Review

If you’re anything like I am, you are always on the lookout for the next best thing when it comes to planning.  Whether it is for my business, blog, kids, or personal life, a new planner always piques my interest.  The ladies over at Bailey Craft Planners were kind enough to send me over a Simply Yours Day Planner to test drive.  And what a smooth ride it was!

I’d first heard about the Simply Yours Day Planner from another blogger.  She was doting on about how well-constructed it was – top on my list of planner attribute must haves.  I’ve had my share of planners where after a few months the binding busts or the covers peel and damage too easily.  My planner is my best friend.  I take it with me everywhere (“it traveled with me to Hong Kong” everywhere).

When my planner arrived at my doorstep, I was so excited!

I examined the covers and binding inside and out and they look pretty tough.  The covers’ corners are reinforced with metal, so as to not ding up easily – nice!  The binding is hard core…it isn’t bending.

The first interior page can be personalized – so cute 🙂

And then we get into the meat and potatoes of the planner.  What’s nice is that you can start the planner from any month you’d like – you aren’t stuck to the traditional January – December calendar.  I started mine in April and it runs all the way through March 2017.  Here are some of the interior pages:

Now you may think that my planner pages look a bit blah compared to all of the washi tape and sticker planner lovers out there.  I love the whole washi movement with the colorful patterns and such but I have ZERO time to get involved – and I know that if I get started with it, it will be like my scrapbooking phase where I had to have every embellishment, paper, and Cricut machine with cartridges.  It wasn’t normal.

I love my markers – Le Pen and the erasable Frixion from Pilot – and I like that I can write with practically any marker and it doesn’t bleed onto the back of the page.  The markers give me just the right amount of color I need on the pages – and it keeps them neat and clean.

How do you stay organized?  I’d love to know!