 Well hello my friends and welcome back to my channel. I get questions all the time as to what my planning basics would be or kind of how to get started in planning and what to buy and things like that. So I figured I would do a video on it since it's one of my most popularly asked questions. So this is just from my own experience and what I like. So what I use this is not any of the stuff I'm showing today isn't my stuff but I just want to show you for example. I really enjoy the Erin Condren life planters. This is an hourly layout in the neutral version so it's got like the little black and gray scale. Absolutely love this. This is what I use for all my plan with me. I do currently have a colorful version for 2018 but my mind works this way and it works from like this has it from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. So I just I don't know I really really like this format really really well and they have three different formats at ErinCondren.com for you to take a look at but this works really well for me. The monthly views to be honest I don't use them that often but that's just me personally. I know a lot of other people use their monthly views religiously and they absolutely love them plus they use their weak view as well but I just really like this. This one is the one that is for 2018 from January all the way to December and then in the back there are some notes pages and things like that and then at the very very back there are some fun stickers that come with the planner which is amazing and then at the very very back here there is a little pocket folder and there's a little pocket on this side as well. This one is just a basic cover that says do what you love and love what you do. This is one of my favorite cover schemes which is the silver metallic like I think they're called like ribbon stripes I'm really not sure but yeah I really like this as well. I'm a fan of the silver coil I think they call it platinum just because it doesn't cost more money I think it's I want to say it's like five to ten dollars more for a different colored coil I think they have black gold and then rose gold if I remember right but there isn't up charge for that and I just silver is just fine with me you know so this is my like main planner that I absolutely love. Speaking of planners I know that a lot of people really really enjoy the monthly deluxe planner which this is the monthly deluxe so if you're a person that doesn't necessarily want a week view at a time and you just want the month view this is perfect for you so this one goes from January 2018 all the way to December the only thing that bothers me about this planner and I really wish they would do is that I wish that they would put little tabs on them but it's something that you could add in very very easily so this is April 2018 here's your month view and then you flip the page you've got five boxes here and then you've got like a productivity page as well and then you are flipping into the beginning of the next month so then now we're into May this one is really kind of handy because you can elect to pay a little bit more to get extra notes pages in the back and this is how many notes pages there are and they're all lined and I really really enjoy that especially if you're just using the monthly view you could use this to jot down ideas or maybe you have like a really packed week and you've got a lot of things to itemize or like tasks to complete or do and you can use these and then you can rip them out when you're done or you can leave it in you know whatever you want to do and then at the back of this book there are some sticker sheets there's some more basic functional sticker sheets which I love again this one has the pockets and then this is the colorful version so it does have a little bit of color in it which I really enjoy again with the silver coil this is also something that you can customize obviously with a different cover and everything but I believe the coils are customized in the Erin Condren monthly deluxe planner as well I keep wanting to say calendar it's not a calendar it's a planner also another item that I think is great for a functional or a decorative planner would be these these are the Erin Condren stylized sticky notes these have like the little teeth on the side so you can clip these into your coil what I like to do with mine is have it on the in the front page and then put this over it just so like these don't get all mucky or anything so it's kind of protected so I really really like these and it's a great little placeholder I actually used a couple of these the other day because a friend of mine is coming to visit me in August and I just kind of like put her flight information on the day that she was arriving and then the day that she was departing so I kind of have that little placeholder if I don't want to already plan my week out in August you know as we're like talking on the phone I wanted to just put all her flight information in there put it on the proper date and then move on and then when I get ready to plan that week then I can put in all her flight information with a sticker so love these and then these are the I think those are called floral ink I think is the name of this pattern but Erin Condren has lots of different sticky note pattern options as well another fun thing from Erin Condren are these sticker books I think this is the I don't know if this is the most recent one but I don't know it's one that I like I figured I'd open up a new one so you could see it and not see mine all used and janky so this one is the designer sticker book it's the monthly collection edition 3 and it says always a reason and season to celebrate and I really like this because it goes with the color ways that are for the month so this is January obviously because it says January but you could really use most of these anytime I probably wouldn't put want to put Happy New Year in the middle of March but you know different strokes baby you know and then there's like February but these are just like these pretty foils we've got March and I like these because they have a combination of like decorative things as well as functional things for people so I mean they've got little boxes they've got little washy strips and they've also got like little butterflies and flowers and things like that every month so I think this is just a really nice like starter thing especially if you don't know your style and I get those questions all the time of like I'm just new in the community and I just really don't know what I want to do like am I a decorative person am I a functional person I don't know so these are just some great things to get you started and I will leave links below to everything as well but yeah it's I just really like this and I think this would be a great thing to get somebody started or if you are just starting this is a great thing to just have on hand so you don't have to spend you know hundreds of dollars on Etsy to figure out what your style is like I did unfortunately but this is just a great thing because it has lots of different options in there so I really really like this also a fun thing to kind of get somebody started here I'm going to zoom in a little bit so you can see this a little bit better this is a kind of new to me thing I have a couple of these and these are a habit tracker and it's just a sheet of paper and you can actually if you want to there's like adhesive little patches on here so you could potentially just put it right into your book right there if you wanted to I know some people have done that or they just put it on their fridge or don't even use the adhesive and they use like a little clip or it's just kind of sitting on their counter which is totally fine but this is like a cool little habit tracker you could use this for like financial things you could use this for like just daily tasks that need to be done and then there's the Monday through Sunday and then you can just kind of check it off as you do it this would be great for kids this would be great for yourself there's so many options with this and it's got a bunch of sheets of paper I'm not really sure how many but this is a brand new pack and I don't know I just think this is like a really cool thing really cool thing to have okay and the last thing from Aaron Condren that I would suggest to a new person would be these colorful dual tip markers the nice thing is these markers um the the fatter tip looks really nice also the smaller tip is very reminiscent of like one of my favorite types of markers which is the pilot ultra fine point permanent which there's a link down below for you guys for these these are my favorite permanent marker to use I have them in blue and black and I think I have them in red as well but I really like these but the fine point in these ones are very reminiscent to this the nice thing about the Aaron Condren ones is you can write on the Aaron Condren paper like in the planners and it doesn't necessarily bleed through it can bleed through if you leave your tip down for too long but if you're just you know writing at a normal speed it's going to be pretty good so I really like this I like that there's a black and there's a bunch of different colors so you can kind of experiment with everything versus going to your office supply store and spending a ton of money on pens or markers that you don't necessarily like I like that there's only six of them in here so if you don't like them or if you're like gosh I really like writing with only these couple colors you can always pass off the other colors to somebody too so um again good for someone just starting out all right and the last thing I'm going to talk about which is something I'm so excited about I had to save this for last because oh my gosh my friend Catherine and I over at Coffee Break Planner had has been talking for months and months and months and I've been telling her that you know I get a lot of my subscribers and people asking me you know what the best stickers are to choose if I want to get someone into planning or maybe they have a friend or a family member that's just getting into it but they just don't know what their style is well now we have come up with something I kind of curated Coffee Break Planner's website you can buy all of these individually these do not need to be as a pack as they are but there is a little bit of a discount for buying the pack and I'll go into the price and all of that in a little bit but I wanted to show you guys what was in this today is the day that she is launching this uh it's called the Emily's Beginner Bundle and it's going to be on her Etsy shop so wanted to share all right so let's zoom in a little bit more because I want you to see all the prettys okay so this is one of my favorite favorite sticker sheets these actually come in a variety of different colors so you can get like all green or all yellow um and these are transparent dots so what I like to use them for and I'll show you real quick is in my main planner these dates in the very front of here so these dates right here they fit perfectly over one of the dates so if you know you've got like trips coming up or vacation scheduled or something with like kid's school or your work or other commitments it's nice to say okay so August 11th through the 16th I'm gonna be gone and you can put you know pink stickers from the 11th through the 16th or whatever you're doing you can also I know that a lot of people have done this and created like a little key up here to say like pink is like school related and blue is work related or whatever like it's just a really cool thing and again these come in a bunch of different varieties also she created some red ones like bright red ones like you know just like a regular red I don't know why I say bright red but a red and I personally like to use those and I know this is TMI but I like to personally use those for when I have my period on my calendar here so like right now like this is like this is just a page that says February 1 so if I had my period like this week or this starting then I would want to put like little red dots up here just to symbolize that and then also because you know every time you go to the doctor I'm always like I don't remember the last time like I had my period I know that's maybe TMI but um it's nice to like when I know I have a doctor's appointment say like in March and I can go back and say like oh this was the last time that you know that happened to me so because they always ask you and I'm always like I have no idea I don't know it's like pretty regular so anyways but you know it's just different things to symbolize so these are these really cute scalloped event boxes and I love the green we've got the purple which is a really pretty deep purple we've got the pink which are faves we also have in the bundle these little skinny whoa sorry I can't like put things in the right places on the camera today we've also got these like really skinny little event stickers as well also these are amazing for just like having a little teardrop and like reminders of the day I love those here are some really great half boxes and what I tried to do when I like kind of curated this stuff with her is I didn't want everything to be the same color so everything would be kind of a mixed up color way oh my gosh I can't even show you there we go um like a mixed up color way so there's you know it wasn't going to be like green and green or blue and blue like it was going to be like just a little bit of a variety because I think this is going to appeal to a lot of people that are just starting out or that maybe want to get some people started with planning so just a variety you know a variety is always nice and then so these are more of that functional stuff and then I wanted to select some stickers that I think would be really functional for for anybody and I know that's difficult sometimes when we all have different things going on in our lives but um I thought that these would fit really well for a lot of people so I chose these really cute little farmers market boxes the ones that do not have any um lettering on them I like the plain ones because I can always write with my pen where I'm going to get groceries whether it's like target or oldie and I just love the way that that looks in my planner I'm a more functional girl but I do like a little bit of decorative as well so this is kind of to get someone into like decorative a little bit and just see what if they like it also there's these really cute little pencils with nothing in the middle I believe that Catherine has ones that say different things that are like school related I think that say like no school early dismissal maybe I can't remember I don't have a kid so I don't really look at those but I like that you could put in like signed documents or paper due or like I just did my taxes the other day I could have put this in and said like tax prep because it just took me time but there's a lot of different things that you could do with these stickers regardless of your life also I thought that these would be really cute for like cooking um this is like a little like crock pot slash slow cooker or like even if you're into the insta pot craze it's be kind of kind of a cool thing too but you can use this to signify cooking or even not necessarily going out to eat I mean you could do it for going out to eat but just you know like meal prep or something like that so I thought these would be really cute also these fun little houses in the nice rainbow colorway as well so you could signify this for like rent due mortgage due things that you have to do around the house like changing light bulbs or changing your air filters or whatever you have to do that's home related or even like cutting the grass lots of different things um you could use these stickers for one of my favorites that you guys have seen over and over and over in my plan with me is have been these these are little laundry stickers and I love that they come in a variety of colors it just helps me remember that I'm doing laundry that day or I need to do laundry that day um so I really really enjoy these and I believe that she has these in a variety of different I think like two different sizes um so I just really really like these and it just makes the planner look a little bit more decorative with still being functional also these are super cute these are these amazing stethoscopes that are like medically related so you've got like the little cross with the stethoscope and a variety of colors and I just really like this you could use these for like prescription pickups prescription drop-offs medical appointments call the doctor call the nurse like lots of different things she also has these that have like little paw prints in the middle I believe and obviously I didn't think that that would appeal to everybody but I think this would because we all have to go to medical appointments or doctor's appointments or have prescriptions filled and things like that or things that are medically related so I think that these would work really really well for most people also uh thought that these would be a good one with the trash and I like that they're kind of a variety of a color way I picked the ones that are the trash only not the ones that are like the trash and recycle she also has those on her website as well but I thought this would be nice even if you don't have like a scheduled trash day because I used to live in an apartment complex and I didn't have a specific trash day but you could use this for like decluttering clearing out stuff things like that and I think that would be really nice as well as obviously if you have a trash day that would work as well so I'm sure you guys are wondering after all of this how much is this bundle so the Emily's beginner bundle on coffee break planner is going to be priced at $36.68 so there is a little bit of a discount if you buy them all together and then you can also apply my discount code for 20 off which is Emily 20 I'll put it on the screen right now for you guys as well as put it down in the notes down below so then the final price if you use my discount code will be $29.34 which is like an amazing amazing starter price deal for all of these sheets especially to get yourself started or somebody that you know will make a great gift um but yeah and then obviously she has all of these in individuals too so if you don't want the whole bundle you can always go check that out as well so anyways um my battery is running out of power but I wanted to announce that I am giving all of this stuff away hold on let me zoom me out here we go I'm giving everything away to one of you guys everything is going to be posted on Facebook and I'm just so so happy about this and Catherine and I have been keeping this a secret for quite a while so I'm just excited to finally share with you guys the functional the decorative all the planners everything I talked about today as well as oh forgot these the habit trackers and the markers those are going to be part of the giveaway as well and I'm just so excited I'm not giving this pen away I'm sorry I'm not giving that away I need my pen anyways um if you want to enter the giveaway make sure to follow me down on Facebook there will be a link down below for you guys and I am so so happy to finally release this oh like a secrets I can't handle secrets you guys I just can't handle them but anyways uh the rules are normally the same the link to my Facebook will take you to the rules so anyway I am gonna jet my battery is running out of power because I've been talking for way too long but I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did make sure to give it a thumbs up feel free to subscribe if you haven't already and I will see you guys in the next video bye guys