 and welcome to Norris Cove. Here at the Cove we do DIYs, budget planning, plan with me's, anything business related and lifestyle. So let's jump into today's video. For those of you who are new here who don't know me, I'm Yoshida and I am the CEO owner of Norris Cove. So today let's dive right in. Let's start with my favorite things, my essentials, that I need in my planning, just in planning period. Okay you guys, so obviously I need my planners. I love my planners. I've shown you guys a lineup of my planners. I will try to link that in the cards above so that you can see. So this is what I need. Now I kind of cross reference in most of my planners. So some of the favorite things that I need in my planner are inserts. Of course my favorite inserts are habit trackers. That's just what I like. Here's one I'll just use my pocket for that because I do use my pocket a lot. It's my everyday carry at the moment and I habit track pretty much in all my planners except for my business planner. So again, habit tracking inserts, those are just essential in my planning. I need weekly inserts. I need daily inserts. My favorite weeklies at the moment are the Clarkton paper. They're 2021, well their new design for 2021 but this is kind of what it looks like and I love their monthlys and their inserts. So I mean their monthlys and their weeklies. And again the dailies I've been using the peanut planner color ones. Those are my favorite. It's definitely an essential. And again back to inserts. I love the monthlys by Clarkton paper. I don't think I have one in here. I'm sure I do. Here it is. So I love monthlys because I can kind of view my month out you know ahead of time. And while I'm at it, this is one of my favorite pens. This is the Signo 307 Uniball pen. One of my absolute favorites. It is a 0.7 nib and I like it because I write pretty big but it allows me to kind of stay small especially in a pocket planner. So again mostly what's in here is pretty much in here but one thing that isn't in there, I don't believe it is. It may be, is my zone cleaning inserts. You can find these inserts in my shop but I need these because they help me kind of keep up with my housework which zone I'm supposed to be in because if you're anything like me you may have a squirrel brain and you'll go from one room to the next and to the next and realize you haven't gotten anything done so I definitely need my zone cleaning inserts. So and I love dividers okay. As you all can see I gotta have them because I can go directly to where I need to go. So let's put these aside. And while I'm pens, this is a pen I got from Wish and this is basically the same pen. They are 0.5 nibs but they are kind of small. Well this one's 0.5. It came from Wish. This is 0.35 and it came from Amazon. These are in my Amazon storefront so check it out. I'll hopefully leave a link below in the description box so that you can get them and I love the way they write. Next up is this cloth and paper desk pad. I love this thing. This is how I kind of pre-plan. It allows me to write out what I have to do for the week. I can actually come back in here if there's something that I forgot. I can come back in here jot it down because here lately I've been doing a lot of business planning here at my desk. If I'm filling orders here at my desk so I can see oh well I may not be able to ship orders out on this day or what have you or like now looking here at ship happy mail. I ship some happy mail on Monday but I have some more to ship so I need to jot that down that it needs to go out today. So that's why like having this it is just essential as you can see. I don't do a lot of stickers on it. At first I did but now I just needed to see an overview of my week and a lot of times I'll have things here but it may not be in my planner because I've jotted it down and I can see it in a you know birds out view of what I need to do. So that's the cloth and paper desk pad weekly desk pad I highly highly highly suggested especially if you're not really daily planning or you're planning in your planner if you find that you don't have a lot to do I definitely highly suggest this. Next up is my Rapsco co-puncher. Oh my goodness I love this thing now I was talking on Instagram about how Planet Craving I were trying to figure out the A5 part of it. It worked for me but it didn't work for her. Go ahead get you another one for A5 because it is sometimes difficult to use before your personal rings and your mini pocket rings. This is perfect. A pound of babe suggests this to me at a planner meetup about a year or so ago and I just ordered it first I didn't use it I use it only for my personal ring planner which I really wasn't into at that time so I'm glad I kept it and I use it all the time especially printing my own inserts this is a must-have for printing when you're printing your own inserts. Okay moving right along so here I love sticky notes any kind of sticky notes I have some back over here I'm gonna get into those in just a second but I love sticky notes I love notepads and let me show you so I do most of my planning upstairs on my couch and I found this at Michael's it's just a clear like letterbox and I kind of got it for you sent on that essentials for like my inserts I'm always trying to find something to store my inserts but this is where I store my notepads and sticky notes so sticky notes and notepads are very essential for me as you can see here I plan out my podcast on this particular sticky note I do an outline and I found that to be very very helpful sometimes I may plan out a video with a notepad and then here I'm a grocery list look here's a notepad just stuck up in here and sometimes I'll flip it over especially if my grocery list is a running grocery list I'll just flip it over and keep it going so this is pretty much my running grocery list I keep it here sometimes I'll take it into the store for me just rip it out and fold it and I love these circle notepads by cloth and paper because I can just stick them in my planner jot down something really quick it's not too big and it's not too small and any notepad from cloth and paper I love so as you can see I go through them I think these are actually one to be honest and these are journaling cards but it has inbox memo and goals on it this is like my second set I just keep purchasing them because I can just stick these in my planner and I'll write down you know things that I need to remember or things that I want to make a note of and I just stick them in the pockets of my planner this one is new to me I haven't used it yet that's why I'm the reason still in the plastic because those are new and then here I can plan out my day on a notepad this was from July 10th and to me sometimes when I use a notepad instead of my planner to daily plan I get so much done as you can see I mean I was knocking it out and I actually completed this task here so yeah so definitely notepads and sticky notes and then here reminds me of happy mail to send or you know things like that something really quick but sticky notes and notepads I must must next up is my planner bag and I can get a lot in this planner bag I actually keep my personal planner and my mini which is my extension in here like that this bag came from gold mine and cocoa it was a collaboration with posh plans I love the message I love black and white so as you can see with my other planner I love black and white so I just love it it's my most used like planner bag besides the next one that I want to show you but I need a planner bag because sometimes when I'm carrying a tote purse I can just throw this in there it protects my planner on the fact that I hate I don't need two planners in there I can take this out I can throw in my highlighters which is another essential and bam and a pen and maybe some stickers okay so I truly truly love me a good planner bag I'm just a bad girl like I have more but this is like one of my absolute favorites next up is highlighters and this little pen case I got from five below and when I did make up we will use these to hold our brushes and we can put our brushes in there clean brushes of course you can sit it on your workstation and pull your brush out but I love it because I can do this for my highlighters instead of having a hole in the bucket it's something that I can take with me from planner to planner or if I'm gonna just throw in my purse and it has all of my favorite highlighters I have a couple of pens in here from Simply Gilded these are my favorite at least they were and these are my most used highlighters the maloanas I used to do my budget planning and not budget planning but expenses like when I spend and so they each serve a purpose for which category that they go in it's easy for me to remember and then my tombows I love those for daily planning like to just maybe highlight to highlight the day or to just mark off a completed task or my to-do list and then even in here I have tweezers so as you can see I can get a lot in here next up is my absolute favorite planner bag this bag I got from the thrift store believe it or not it comes from Forever 21 but it look like I got a face mask in there I hold a lot of like extra inserts for it like pocket inserts that's what it's become lately I have my ring light for my phone and pins in here just all kinds of things that it can hold I haven't been using it lately because I've been decluttering and I just used the other one that I showed you but also I keep my little tiny teeny tiny scissors in there I cut washi with this sometimes I may have to trim off my inserts and they're just the perfect size so this is definitely an essential I believe I got these from hobby lobby but they are perfect and this is my absolute favorite planner bag it's pink I love pink too so and it feels like leather but I doubt very seriously if it's leather but yeah so this is definitely an essential for me because sometimes before the pandemic I was carrying this the most and I could get a couple planners in here I had all my highlighters in here what else pins my little scissors task cards all that stuff believe it or not and it stretches as you can see and I can get all this in there and I can just throw it into my purse which is a tote and it fit perfect and it zips and I found this at the thrift store and I think I didn't pay but maybe three dollars for it so if I see another one I'm gonna grab it if you see one at your local thrift store grab it trust me you won't be disappointed so when it hit me in my inbox on Instagram said they found it on like McCarrie or something like that and look at all those sites you can find it I believe that it is a makeup bag or something but definitely it is perfect next up is my paper cutter I love this thing now I'm gonna do for a new one but I can't cut inserts without it I cannot cut some of my stickers without it sometimes I have my stickers set to cut on the own through the machine but every now and then one won't cut so I need to use this I've changed the blade only once and I've had it for a year and a half so I've only changed the blade once it cuts through my plastic what other inserts that I use my dashboards the hard vellum all that great stuff car stock it is a beast but this is my circuit but I am ready for a new one but this is what I use often the most and lastly on the list are my stickers I have to have functional stickers I just need them I love a little deco sticker here and there but these are my two most used sticker boxes they you can get these from Michaels they're the photo boxes they also have a bigger one and I use that to store bigger kits or whatever but I'm not into kits like that anymore but I still buy them just sometimes for support sometimes to use the boxes or the deco but these are like my favorite stickers here by others I don't mix I try not to mix mine in here because I just want to use what I pay for so I have a random a lot of shops here so that's how I've separated them I plan to get more of these boxes and just get the whole kind of box kit so that I can separate shop by shop but I'm a creature of habit I kind of shop at the same ones I do find new ones that I like so that's why they're all in here and then these are some of my favorites on top I have my girl Shakisha from Scripps by L&C but mainly most of these are mine I have other ones in here as well but these again are my favorite I have Elaine Michelle Anika and of course mine so yeah so this is also like I said my second favorite box that I just dipped into and when I need a little boost or like with mine if I know that mine aren't in here and it's some favorite of mine like these eyeglasses stay on top because I use them in almost every spray it or whatever that I do even when I'm not really doing deco I use those glasses or either my teeny dots from my shop the blush dots okay so that concludes my favorite things my favorite planet essentials what are your favorite planet essential so let me know in the comment section what are your favorite planet essentials did you see anything in here that you don't use that you may consider using I would love to know so don't forget leave me a message down in the comment section and I'll be happy to talk with you you guys again I want to thank you all so much for the love I want to just thank you for the follow if you're new here let me know that you're new here down in the comment section so I can give you a shout out say hey and welcome to the code don't forget if today's your first time watching any of my content you enjoy today's content do me a favor hit that subscribe button also hit that notification bell and I'll see you in my next video