 So, I did a thing. I got some new planners. I'm gonna post this on Financial Friday. Reason being is because I have had like, zero time to devote to Financial Friday lately and I'm really, really sorry to all my financial peeps out there, but I will end up going into house stuff at some point. It's just all my documents are all over the place and I'm currently doing all the renovations and it's just, it's a lot. So, I really want to think about what I wanna say and make sure that everything is gonna be good and I just don't wanna rush through it. You know what I mean? So, I figured Financial Friday, we would talk about planners. This is my current planner. It's off camera right now. But these retail at erincondren.com for $55 are the spiral bound planners. And okay, so they start at $55 but I actually have my handy-dandy laptop off camera right now. With all of the upgrades that you can do to your planner, it's $75. So, they can be ranged from $55 to $75 depending on all the different options and stuff. Well, this year, erincondren came out with these hardbound planners and I do get comments a lot saying, gosh, I wish I could afford an erincondren planner. They're just so expensive and all that and I totally understand what you're saying. She came out with a more budget-friendly option for the more simplified planner. So, if you wanna track just like your finances, if you just wanna track like appointments, your kid's schedule, extra activities, like things like that, this is definitely, these would be like more up your alley. I don't feel like you'd be able to do a lot of stickers or washi in here and I'll show you why in just a moment. But I will let you know, this is the small hardbound life planner and it's a horizontal layout. The small ones come in the horizontal only. You can't get the vertical layout and I'll show you the layouts in just a moment. The larger one, this is the large hardbound life planner and it's in the vertical layout. So this one is $30, the smaller one and this one is $35. Very, very, very nice price points, especially for an erincondren product. Just to let you know, there is gonna be an affiliate link down below. If it's your first time ordering anything through erincondren, what that link will provide, you sign up using that link. You'll get a couple different emails from erincondren but one of them will actually be a $10 off coupon code and you can use that towards your first purchase. What happens is you get $10 off of your order and then also when your item ships, I get a $10 referral credit as well, which is how I can bring lots of different planner videos and also use different erincondren stuff and like my plan with me is and things like that and that's a lot of the reason like why I do lots of giveaways and all that kind of stuff. But, so thank you to everybody that has used them but if you're looking for a more budget friendly option, something like this, you can kind of use that with that coupon code if that makes sense. Let's get into each planner. So I am gonna start with the big guy. Whoa. And there are three, or sorry, there's four different colors to choose from. I ended up choosing the linen color. The reason why is because I just liked the interior better honestly. If you go to the website, you'll be able to see all the different layouts and stuff but I just thought that these looked really classy and I like the silver. There's all the different metallics are either a silver, a rose gold or a gold and they just come the way that they come. However, you can personalize these. I believe it's five to $10 more to personalize them if you want to. I did not get these personalized and I will tell you why a little bit later. So anyway, this is an eight by 10. It's 224 pages. It says it like right here. And then when you open it, it's so beautiful. It has the mid-century circles in the colorful and it will be colorful throughout the entire version of this. There is also the spine is a silver metallic as well which is beautiful. And then, I don't know if you can see that very well. Let's see. I don't know if it'll like, oh there it goes. It has a little foiled 2017, 2018. This is the same for both of the planners. I just want to show you the insides and my thoughts and all of that. But again, this is more for like the functional person. So the main page just has the information that this is my life, it's the vertical layout. Right now, they do not offer the hardbound planners in an hourly version. That's what I use for all my plan with me is if you guys actually watch my plan with me videos. They just don't offer it in a hardbound version as of yet. I don't know if they ever will but it's just not an offering. So it just has like little quote page. It has 2017, 2018. The only thing you really can't, you can't customize these a lot and you also can't customize the months that are in here like you can the coil bound one. So this one starts July, 2017 and ends December, 2018 and you can't change that. I just like to let you know. So yeah, this is that page and then we start July, 2017. So I was actually looking at this with my mom yesterday because she was like asking me what my Financial Friday video is gonna be about and I was telling her about it and I thought if I were to use something like this that I would actually like sticker and washi probably the months because there's no tabs on these. You can buy a little tabs from Aaron Condren as well or you can make your own tabs or you could figure something out but I think it would be kind of cool to do like washi and stickers for like vacation or work stuff or appointments or like whatever on the monthlies just because I think it would be kind of cool because when you actually close it up on the spine you'd kind of be able to see where the months are. You know what I mean? Like if you didn't want to like actually put the tabs in I don't know, I just thought it'd be like a cool idea because it's gonna be like a little bit thicker but you definitely couldn't really do, you know stickers and washi all over the place in every single one because it would just be like you know, your spine would be like this and then eventually it'd be like hello. But anyway, here is the first page that goes into the actual vertical layout and yeah, I think this is beautiful. This kind of like strings into the mid-century circles. It's just like a regular vertical. I do have to say I feel like the paper quality is just slightly different than the new planners. Like it still feels silky and everything but I'm not gonna do a pen test on this because I may or may not be keeping these planners. So I haven't like fully decided what I wanna do on that and I know everybody's gonna ask me to do a giveaway and I'm kind of giveawayed out you guys. It's not a bad thing. It's just, it costs a lot of money to ship out a bunch of stuff and after I did my last big, big giveaway which was all of those little Aaron Cundran hardbound books you guys would be astonished at how much money I paid to get those things shipped. It was multiple hundreds of dollars because they were just so heavy in the postage. So I'm kind of giveawayed out for now but that's okay. They'll still be coming so don't worry but I really wanted to purchase these for review purposes as well as pick the one that I would be most likely to use which would be the linen cover with the silver foil because I just think that looks really nice and classy. But yeah, let's go to like another month so we can see. So here's like August into September. You know, September's there and then let me go to like the very back like all the way and I'll show you. Oh and another really cool feature is it does have this like little ribbon so it keeps your place. So because it's not like a coil bound like the other ones you don't really have to worry about, you know like a bookmark or something. You just already have this already sewn in which is kind of a nice feature. Again, this is more for this simplistic planner but let's go all the way to the back. There are a few notes pages. There's not a ton but there are a few. So right after December 2018 there are a few notes pages so there's a few lined and then there's some dot grid and then some blank pages and then I believe that is it. Oh yeah and then it also has for the planner that is looking into the next year. I love that they put this at the very back of the planner. So if you're planning like travel or if you wanna put in like birthdays or things you already know that are coming up of dates to keep clear or dates to just acknowledge it's just nice to have that in the back of your planner and they do that in the coil bound as well. And that is the last page. Ta-da! All right, so that is it for the large Howard bound vertical layout. So let's look at the small horizontal layout. Move this over. Let me zoom you in a little bit more. Doot, doot, doot. It's so tiny. All right, let's zoom her in a little bit more. So the specs on this, this is five by eight. Also 224 pages. The layout is different, but the way that it's constructed is exactly the same. Again, it's the linen with the silver foil. Also has that little thing on the side that says 2017, 2018. Again, you can get this personalized for a fee, but yeah, I just think this is so pretty. Showing the comparison, one from another. The design essentially is almost exactly the same, but obviously they're mid-century circles on. This one here is a lot bigger than this one there. Let's walk into this here. So it's just got your regular personal page that says this is my life, and then you can put your name or whatever you want to on there. Little quotes page. And then these are quite small. So anyone that has trouble with their eyes or something, this is probably not the best planner for you because these are quite small. I would definitely go with the larger planner. And then also the room to write and everything too. Also, this is the monthly layout, and let me show you the monthly over here. I know it's gonna be huge, but just as a comparison, this is a standard size box right here, and then it's about half the size. But I still like it. I'll still reference back to this when we're going through. But yeah, so this is actually a horizontal, and I have actually never ever purchased a horizontal from Erin Condren ever. I think I've had a horizontal planner before like a long, long time ago, like back in the day when I used to buy all my planner stuff at Franklin Covey. I don't know, almost 20 years ago, 15, 20 years ago. I don't know, whenever that was. Actually, I've seen a lot of people that use this for like journaling to like write down things. My brain doesn't work like this. I'm just gonna be completely honest. My brain doesn't work like this. My brain works like this. So my brain works like the other planner. So I wanna see stuff from start to finish. I'm a list maker too, so maybe that's part of it. But some people really enjoy these layouts, so to each their own, but I wanted to see it anyways because I thought it would be kind of a cool thing. Another cool thing on this one is the mid-century circles are kind of faded back here, which is very, very nice. And I don't know, I just like it. And they also have like a little notes section down here because obviously it's seven days and there's eight boxes. And there's a little notes page, which are not notes page, but notes section. So there's like reminders or anything like that. Again, this is for the more functional planner. I will kind of skip through this. This also has the foil. I can't remember if I showed that. This also has the same little sewn-in bookmark, which is very, very nice. Again, with a monthly layout here. So let's just pop all the way to the back. And it has the same amount of pages, so I suspect that it has the same stuff in the back, but let's look together. Yep, it's got the same pages, got the lined, and then should have the dot grid. Yep, and then it should have some blank pages, which I love. And the paper quality is essentially the same as the other one that's off-camera, right over there. Yeah, and then this also has that 2019 at-a-glance layout. Again, for upcoming stuff throughout the next year that you know about. So I don't know, I really like these. I think this is a cool option. Let me zoom you back out. This is a really neat option that Erin Condon and her team came up with because not everybody is a decorative planner that likes to plan with stickers and do all that stuff, and I totally understand. And I've had lots of comments too to say, well, I wanna just have a basic planner. What do you recommend? And this is probably what I would recommend. They're a really nice quality. They do end up denting a little bit, but I think that's gonna be with any hardbound option, I feel like, regardless if it's Erin Condon or not. If you're dealing with a hardbound, you're gonna have little dents and stuff throughout the life of the book. It's just gonna happen, you guys. Also, I love the budget-friendly aspect to these planners. I mean, $30 and $35, you can't go wrong. Again, if you wanna get them personalized, you can, but there is a fee. I believe it's $5 to $10. I can't really remember. Again, if you sign up using that code below, again, if you sign up using that link below and it's your first purchase, you will get $10 off, which makes it even a little bit sweeter too, which is kinda nice. It's for the more functional person, or maybe you just wanna track your spending or your finances. Maybe something like this would be more up your alley. There's different ways to make these planners work for different people. So I think that is gonna be it for me today. If you guys have any questions, feel free to post them below and I will get back to you guys. 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