 Well hello friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we're going to be talking about the Aaron Condren binder and how it's held up for me for the past year. I've been using it for just a year now and I want to talk about the things that I love and some of the things that I really don't love for me personally. So this is the Aaron Condren binder from last year. If I can find my like move-in video or like first impressions video, I'm gonna link that stuff up here for you guys. So this is the binder now after a year and I will tell you I'm probably gonna have questions on this. I don't think I took my binder with me anywhere. I may have taken it to like one or two planner meetups but I didn't take it out every day. It literally just sat on my desk like right here. It didn't move from this room for the most part. I got the navy cover. This is the um like a canvas. It's very very thin um like a canvas material and I believe they came in this color the navy. There was a gray and I think there was like a blush color and anyway I got this, loved it. It clearly has been very well loved as you can see on the corners. It does have the brass hardware. Whoops like right here but I don't know if you guys can see. Let me I'm gonna zoom you in so you can kind of see the damage this has caused. So there's quite a bit of wear and tear on a lot of these corners. Also it might be a little bit hard to see because this is reflective but um like the middle of this is now silver and like yes there's like doil hair all over it and then on the very back here it's like completely off. I'm kind of surprised it's not like peeling up yet um so yeah but like all the corners are pretty worse for the wear especially on the back for some reason and I have a theory on why I'll share that in just a moment but yeah this is all discolored and then over here it's a little discolored right on this corner and um the front uh and then up here the bottom actually looks kind of okay and the side looks kind of okay but the front is like I don't know like you just can't get all this stuff off and I'm not going to take a lint roller to my planner that just seems weird you know. Anyway all right let's zoom you guys back out if we can look a little bit further. So yeah the binder in my opinion didn't like the exterior didn't really hold up as well as I would have assumed something would from Aaron Condon product line. However this was their first year producing a binder. This year I have it actually off to the side here this is a I think it's called book cloth it's like a coated material that feels really like it's going to hold up way better it feels like thicker um so yeah like it doesn't feel as like I don't know this feels really flimsy this feels better um if I can find the video of this I will pop it up in a card for you guys um but I just wanted to kind of like compare and contrast I think they figured out that this binder was not the best for someone that wants to carry it around all the time or even someone like me that just never took it anywhere it still has a lot of wear and tear and damage. So when you open it up and again this is the one from this past year so this current one is no longer available something that bothers me about this one is that this these rings never really like it was very easy for these to like skip and um you'll notice I'm gonna flip through a few of these pages some of these rings are super flat but like this one right here like the pages get stuck because they don't line up nicely like they don't I don't know it's kind of like if they're like supposed to be like this they're like that like they just don't line up nice and um these ones are pretty good but there's like this one's really bad and then like I don't know a couple of these aren't great either um I do have a interchangeable cover on the front and the back and the reason why and this is still true now um oh and I will say with the coil they have made improvements it's very smooth this year um as to like where they connect to each other so hopefully that won't be that big of an issue this upcoming year but the problem is when you try to turn these you really need like a flap or something because here let's just open to a random page like we're just gonna open to this day okay so here's a here's a day if I want to close this like I like I can't like like it doesn't close it stays looking like this like that's the aerial view of what it looks like like I can't I can't close it so oh it like popped out that happens all the time okay let's pop her back pop your back in kid pop your back in so to combat that problem say I'm just gonna open up to another page again if I want to close it what I have to do is I have to stick my hand underneath there kind of push the pages forward and then push the pages this way and then kind of like lift it and do this sad thing is is that it's not improved on the new year's binder sadly which really sucks I think it's like a ring issue like I feel like if the ring in the back or I'm sorry this is the back um in the back would be like a flatter ring or something um that we wouldn't have these problems but um I don't know I don't I don't design binders so anyway that is why I keep an interchangeable cover in just so it's just easy to like hold on to and just whoop you know uh anyway I did put these in these aren't additional like charge I mean you these don't actually come with the binder but you can get these pockets from Erin Condren to put stuff in I never really used anything for the back one but in the front one I have some stuff so I have I have these like little dots from coffee break planner and I use them to like track my cycle so why not and then I have my Pete Buttigieg sticker so those just hang out in there and yeah so I'm gonna do like a quick little flip to share I am gonna film a video as well and I still be up on my channel hopefully soonish sharing every single spread from this year in the planner because I feel like I would want to see that so why the heck not um but yeah I mean the pages have held up well the papers held up well like everything everything is all good um so yeah but every I don't know I just really I like the planner oh also hold on we're gonna oh this is gonna be so hard to show I will tell you these rings let me my mind is all over the place I'm just kind of like noticing these things so the rings like right here are very like tarnished in a way um this one isn't that bad but this one the side like it's very speckly and it's kind of all over these as well um again I didn't take this anywhere with me so I can't imagine what the issue is but again it's probably just the plating that's on here um so yeah I do like that they didn't do the flips this way where you can open them up that you just have to go like this and then open them um because I feel like this would get caught on the paper so I'm really glad that they didn't do that so that's a design that I really really like and again the next year's one is the same work doesn't have those little flippy dudes on them and then like I said these feel way better but um I don't know if the claps just like over time from like opening and shutting them have that issue where they just don't line up after a while I'm just I'm not really sure but one of the things I absolutely love is that hold on let me zoom you out again hello hello here we go okay one of the things I absolutely love about the binder and why I have decided to go with a binder again for next year even though there are some design flaws with it is that I can take the pages out oh my gosh you guys I love taking the pages out it is just like it's my jam I love doing that and the reason I like doing it is because it makes it easier to like lay washi down or write directly on the paper or even sometimes just apply stickers it's just so much easier so I love being able to take the pages out and then move them around um in this planner the new one that I have for this year I made myself basically a franken planner I'm going to link the video up above for you guys if you're interested in watching that but I was able to create my perfect planner basically and just take the pages out and put the pages how I wanted them and what made sense for me in my life and then the way that I plan so I just I love that part of it it's so so nice and um in the binder you can choose uh with erin chondrin you can choose if you want the vertical horizontal or the hourly I am the hourly person that's just who I am that's just what I love um let me get to a day here so this is like this is an hourly so it's got the times it's hard to see because it's like clearly all planned so anyway but I don't know I'm just I'm just a fan of that but yeah I'm really excited to actually see how the next year's one holds up I will film another video for you guys next year saying you know things about that um I just I'm in love with the binder you guys even though it has some flaws I just wanted to give you my honest opinion and thoughts and kind of what happened to my binder um over the course of a year of using it consistently and yes I planned basically every week um but yeah so this is definitely used and abused and I just wanted to give you guys an honest look or honest look at um you know what it looks like after a year of use so yeah so anyways that's gonna be my video for today I hope you guys enjoyed a look at how my erin chondrin life planner binder held up for one year of use if you have an erin chondrin life planner binder from the previous year so 2019 slash 2020 let me know in the comments how years has held up and then also if you could include do you take it out of your home do you travel with it do you take it to work every day like how do you use yours or are you someone like myself that just lets it sit on their desk and then they plan and then they put it away let me know I'd be really curious to know if somebody actually took it everywhere with them for the most part and how it's held up now so yeah let me know in 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