 Well hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. Today we are going to be going through the new 2018-2019 deluxe monthly planner from Erin Condren as well as I'm going to be sharing what I'm going to be using this particular planner for this year as well as how I'm kind of setting stuff up. I haven't set up anything specific just yet but I've putting notes in here and all that good stuff so I just want to show you how I'm going to use it. I want to start out this video by saying thank you to the Erin Condren team. They so graciously let me pick out a planner to show you guys so let's move it right along. First off the woven wonder pattern. I am kind of obsessed with this pattern. I don't think since I've been using Erin Condren which has been a few years, I don't think I've been this excited about a pattern style for the year as I am about this one. I actually have the washi tape sitting right here. I'm going to think I'm going to have my accessories video up before this one so if I have that video up already I will link it up in a card for you guys but I decided to go with a neutral cover just as FDE on it. This one I'm actually going to be using for all things favorite daughter Emily. As some of you know that watch some of my budgeting videos or have been a long-time subscriber I do actually have my own LLC that I run a bunch of things through so this is going to be like this. This also encompasses my YouTube and things like that. We'll get into that in a little bit but the cover choice I did was obviously the woven wonder and I personalized it and I did the white personalization and I believe that this cover is in the light taupe if I am not mistaken. It's just one of the removable covers and then when you open it up it says deluxe monthly planner and you can put your info right there and I did get the colorful version and I like mine for the calendar year. I know some people really like different options. There are other options on the website. I will link that down below. Just let you know if it's your first time ordering through Aaron Condren there is a special link for you to get $10 off of your first purchase if you create a profile and sign up. You'll get a couple emails from Aaron Condren. One of them will be a $10 off coupon code. What's really awesome is you get the $10 off coupon code and then when your item ships I get a coupon code as well to host giveaways or buy products so I can show you guys and you know things like that. So you open up the first page and it's the woven wonder pattern and it says you have everything inside you to be and do anything you want and then it has a little tab that's 2018-2019 and then it's got 2000 or like July 2018 through December of 2019. I believe you can get the patterns. I'm sorry I believe that you can get these planners in that version so July 18 through December of 2019. These are great for tracking things or if you have certain expenses or however you're going to set up your planner this is really a great thing and then the next page is the 12 boxes all in different colors. I think the kind of idea from this originally was every month you can kind of have a goal or something like that but you can really use it for anything but to be honest I don't think I've ever really utilized this ever in any kind of a planner but I do like the flexibility that it's just a blank box and you can really use it for whatever you'd like. And then getting into the planner I am so excited about this planner you guys. There are so many different changes that I absolutely love. First of off being the tabs. There's tabs finally. I'm so excited about that. The incorporation of the tabs I think is awesome. It's so much I think I feel like it's going to be like so much easier for me to use and utilize just because of these little tabs which you wouldn't think it but clearly you could put on your own tabs. They did release Aaron Condon released adhesive tabs a while ago. It's on their website and the link is down below. I think they saw everybody doing this to their planners and they were like hold on we need to do that too. So anyway also a great thing is some of the sheets have changed so I'm excited about that. So let's get into January here and here like I said I've already kind of laid out a few different things so I've just put in some birthdays. There's my birthday my brother's birthday and then Doyle is on the 19th. I really like that they have incorporated like they did in the new Life Planner the next month. I really really like that. My Life Planner video will be up after this one just to let you know I did finally get it in the mail. I held off for a little while. I wasn't sure what I wanted but that video will be coming up very soon so feel free to subscribe. I hit the bell notifications because that video should be up fairly soon after this. So this is very similar to the Life Planner just the way it's set up and this is what I'm most excited about blank pages. In the past they had had that productivity page on the right hand side and then over here was like five kind of rectangular boxes that I never knew what to do with. I used to use this for my budgeting. I will probably still use one for my budgeting as well but this is not what this specific planner is going to be for this year. But I would always get comments of like I do my budget on this page which was like that productivity page and I would never use this side and people would comment all the time well what do you use for the left hand side? What do you use for the left hand side and I'm like honestly I don't use it for nothing because it's too for me personally it was too regimented that I just couldn't do anything with it. I will probably still do my budgets. I'm going to get a I'll probably just get a different planner but I will use the same style of planner but just a little bit of a differential but I will probably still do my budgets on this side because I'm right-handed and I you know the coil and all that for the month that we're in so like this would be for January and I don't know what I'll use on the left hand side but maybe I'll do some like goal setting or I don't know there's just other things you can do. Also you get more notes pages so you get an extra sheet of pages and I just absolutely love that. I think that's amazing and it really makes the planner versatile so you can just like make a list maybe there's some like home things you want to do or I've seen people use these for like fitness trackers or if they've like had you know just had a baby and has a newborn sometimes they want to put in like all the doctor's appointments and feeding schedules and like weight tracking and you know like things like that there's so many different options which I absolutely love so there's extra note pages this year where that used to be just like this where you'd have one page one page and then the next month so now you get two extra pages which I'm super pumped about so then we're into February so it's got like the February page because it's like a pink up here and it's the same way all the way around so yeah and then I put a few things in here vloguary I'm not sure if I'm gonna do that or not it's whether there's a little question mark and then usually in January or February we have a Minnesota planner addicts paid for event but I'm not sure if that is going to be happening in February or when it's happening that's why I just kind of like put it over here but yeah so all of the months are exactly the same and then it's got your March for the next month down at the bottom which I love and then let's go into the notes pages or actually the end of December I'm sorry let's go to the end of December and then we'll chat a little bit more here all right so here is the notes pages tab and this is looking forward to 2020 I do really like that this is in here I love the little checklist I'm like a fan of those and then in the coming year and then in the coming year is here and it's just got everything in there so when you get those invitations to weddings or you have trips or you have upcoming things in your business or maybe you have goals for 2020 or I don't know if you have something in there it's nice to just kind of take this page and then when you get your planner for next year or the year next then you can kind of just swap out and put those things in there I want to show you guys what I'm doing with my notes pages and I elected to get the maximum amount of notes pages there's quite a few I will kind of lift this up so you guys can see it's super super thick where before there was only like I don't know 20 or 30 notes pages there's like all done now but there is an additional fee if you want to get those and I decided to go for it because I knew what I was going to use this for and I wanted to show you guys the first page is going to be for income I haven't set up anything yet and I probably will end up doing this in a separate video if you guys are interested because this doesn't start until January anyways and we are still in July very end of July this might be up in August but I'm hoping to get it up in July I don't really need to like set it up right the second so let me know if you guys are interested in seeing like how I'm actually going to set up my notes pages in here so my work income is going to be on my first sheet so I get a few different things through the favorite daughter Emily company as revenue streams so the first one is YouTube so I'm going to do YouTube and this will be just like tracking monthly income levels and things like that so I have YouTube I've also got Amazon share a sale Etsy contracts and then I left a couple of other pages as well and then I can also use the backside of here too because I was kind of like ooh what if I like expand and do something different or whatever but I can always use the backside because really I just need like 12 lines to be completely honest so I slept a couple of extra pages and then this is my Etsy PR donations the value of the item and also my shipping fees I just really need to track that for 2019 for tax reasons so when planner groups come to me and ask me for donations from my Etsy shop and I'm able to fulfill those donations I just need to track that so that'll be pretty easy I'm only electing two pages for this front and back and then also Etsy expenses so there's lots of different expenses that you incur by running an Etsy shop and business so I have a ton of notes pages for this but you know transactions from stores or Amazon or shipping fees or like any of that stuff just I want to put into here this is going to be Etsy only but I am going to go over some of the other stuff in just a moment this one is YouTube expensive YouTube and Etsy are two different animals yet they run through the same LLC if that makes sense for me I elected for 12 pages because I am going to be putting in all of my either monthly bills or doing tracking as to like how much I'm spending throughout the month and all that stuff too so I have one page front and back that I can utilize for that also the things that I can run through my business legally I've already talked to my tax professional do not take any tax advice from me please I am not a tax professional talk to your tax professional if you would like to run things through your business if you have one so anyways um what I can do the way that my business is set up is I can take my wi-fi my health insurance health expenses and also my cell phone and take that out of my normal budget and I can run that through my business so I can actually pay those bills in full through the business um also clearly I'm going to put anything that I need for like video equipment products uh you know gear camera stuff anything I need for favorite daughter Emily YouTube is going to be on here as well as any taxes and fees and like all that kind of stuff is going to be in here so I've got 12 pages set up for this and then I've got a few pages set aside for mileage I do try to track my mileage it's so hard but I do try to track it I set aside four pages for that and I'm just going to do like a running tally of like January and then like when January stops like make a line and then like February and whatever you know I do have to travel sometimes to go to events or go pick up things and there's other little things included in that so I like to get that tracked so let's move that a little bit and then um event expenses so my fees uh food while I'm there etc anything else that I'm you know spending while there so I did a couple of sheets for this I did four sheets for myself but um like I said I go to I don't know if I said this but there's two paid for events for the Minnesota planner addicts every year that I do attend and have attended since they started doing these paid for events so I will put that in there as well as the unpaid for events as well I can track my mileage and things like that when I go there so I'll put that in my other mileage tab um but yeah so I just like to put that in there and I'm not sure if I'll be going to any other events this year but um we'll stay posted speaking of other planner events um I am planning to go to go wild this year so I am going to be setting up my budget and then my actual spending on this page I know that it's going to be in Las Vegas I put May question mark the last I think there's been three go wilds I've only gone to the last one in Austin Texas so I missed out on the first two but they've always I think they've always had them like the first weekend in May but the dates have not been released yet so this will be kind of my planning page for my budget and then I will put in my actual on this page as well and I have one page elected for this front and back and then also there is a another planner event that I would love to go to next year it's called plan camp so I'm going to be doing a budget and an actual for this as well and then the dates have already been released but there's no location yet it's going to be June 28th through the July 1st if you guys are interested in plan camp um check out on Instagram plan camp and you'll find it and I'm sure they'll be releasing more information from there um the gals from design pandemonium I believe are like the heads of this planner event and I do know both of them in real life they are part of the Minnesota planner people so I'm assuming I don't know this for sure but I'm assuming that the location will be closer to me because I'm in Minnesota I'm not sure if it's going to be in Minnesota or not but the last one I believe was I was on my cruise during the last one or else I would have tried to attend to that one that's going to be it for this one and then I did leave a couple of extra pages in case there's any other planner events that I'd like to go to or get invited to so that's that and then also I have a tab and this is going to be the last tab so far video ideas and requests so a lot of you give me some great ideas also I get inspiration from everywhere else too I think I said this in another video that I don't really enjoy watching too many planner people on YouTube because I feel like I just kind of regurgitate the videos that I like so if I see something from a friend on the internet I feel like it's like oh I want to do that video too but am I copying them I'm not sure so to be honest I maybe am subscribed to like three or four planning people and that's it I know there's a ton of them out there but I try to limit myself just because I just don't want to seem inauthentic so if you guys ever have any specific video requests let me know this is where I'm going to keep my running tally and we'll just go from there so I'm really excited about that I got a ton of pages for this so like I said before I got the maximum amount of pages that you can get and there is a fee for that but I think it's well worth it if you're going to be using this for tracking lots of different things like I am also in the back are some sticker pages which I love so these little sticker guys are so incredibly cute I love the little asterisks so there are two of these and then we have our pocket folder just like in all of the planners and then you got the big pocket in the front I got the little one in the back to be honest I don't think I've ever used the little one but I do love the big one for like invitations or things like that and then the very backside you've got this kind of blank back cover where you can use your like white erase or your you know eraser what is that thing called wet erase that's what it's called your wet erase markers to write down little notes and things like that and then the back cover looks exactly the same so and then obviously this has the little you know page right here too all right so that is going to be it for my walkthrough of the deluxe monthly planner for 2018 2019 like I said before links are below if you guys want to check this out for yourself I'm so excited about the improvements and changes that they made this year oh I should also say the paper quality is exactly the same as last year so I will not be conducting a pen test however if you guys are interested I will put up in a card somewhere my walkthrough of the deluxe monthly planner from last year because that's when the paper changed and it's a little bit thicker in years past so I really really like this paper I'm excited that they stayed I believe it's a brand called Mohawk paper I'm really glad that they stayed with that brand and it's very very nice very thick and very easy to write on as well so that's going to be it for me today thank you guys so much for joining me again if you have any questions feel free to post them down below also if you have any video ideas for 2019 let me know of suggestions I always love suggestions down below or who knows I might do it this year too you never know also if you guys decide to get a deluxe monthly planner let me know in the comments what you guys are going to be using it for like I said before I'm going to use one for a budget and then this one's going to be for my YouTube tracking and all of my other Etsy stuff and all the stuff that's run through my business but let me know other great ideas of how you would use this in your daily life if you had one so thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today and I will see y'all in the next video bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school so you can feel cool