 Well, hello my friends and welcome back to my channel today. We are gonna be doing a planner first impressions It's okay. This is my normal public mailbox So I don't care if you know the address and I had a planner company reach out to me This is Ashley Shelley planner or the Ashley Shelley planner I should say I have done a video on the Ashley Shelley planner I think it was last year if I can find that video. I'll throw it up in a card for you guys But they reached out because they are doing their launch which is happening this Friday I believe I'm gonna put this video up on Saturday because I'm not really sure what time on Friday that this launch is happening So you guys know me I pre-film the things so let's open up the box And then I'll tell you a little bit more about the planner so mine came in this really nice white box and I Like unsealed it, but I hadn't opened it yet. So let's see here I have a business card create your best days. Cool. I have a little note here, and it just says Emily Thank you so much for checking out the 2019 Ashley Shelley planner We can't wait to hear what you think feel free to share your code Emily five for a five dollar off a signature 2019 planner and it says the code expires on the 31st of December So I will leave the information down below for you guys to case you didn't write it down or you're you know Watching on the go or whatever. So anyways comes in this nice purple a packaging little tissue paper. Oh Mmm-hmm sour patch kids. All right, cool like that It comes in this little bubble wrap, and then it has a little card That says create your best days and then just has like the hashtags and where you can find them on Instagram So let me pull this out, and then we'll talk more. All right, so this comes in like a Sello bag thing, so let's get this opened Come on out. Come on out. All right There we go Cool. All right, so let me give you some information about the planner before I open it So the standard price for the signature Ashley Shelley planner will be $44 and 95 sets But if you use that $5 off coupon code, it'll put it down to $39.95 And that is good until the end of the year So that's pretty awesome. It looks like last year their prices were $49.95 So they have decreased the price which is kind of nice as for scale I have a seven by nine Aaron Condren planner that I use on the regular. It's a little bit bigger Or like my Aaron Condren's a little bit bigger I should say So I have my cover you can see the difference like you know the Aaron Condren is a little bit Different there. So the pages are just a little bit more narrow, but it's the same same height So I don't know it's nine inches by probably six six and a half something like that So very comparable to the you know Aaron Condren size. So anyway when they reached out They showed me their designs for 2019 So I picked this design and this design is called the chambray stripe So I will show you guys. It's gonna be hard to see hold on. Let's see if I can like see it properly Here we go Actually, let me put this down and then I'll Zoom me all in it always gets funky when I try to show my screen So anyway, this is the chambray stripe the aqua herringbone marble stripe Painted floral rose gold. So the coil is rose gold and then the painted floral in the silver So I know these have been like, you know I think these ones were last year too or something similar to that So it might be like one or more of their signature looks But I thought the chambray stripe look kind of nice So I figured why not go with that one and it's kind of like more of a like a dark denim color And it looks like it's black like the stripes look like They're black. They might be like a super dark indigo. I'm not sure So anyway, this comes with a silver coil. It has like a teal 2019 on it And then it has the corners, which I love. Oh, it's kind of off-camera. Sorry It has the hard corners, which I love it has the bound in cover So, you know nice and sturdy then you open it up. Ooh, this is nice It has a little pocket so you can put stickers or you know, if you put your bills in there Or you have postcards or something like that or invitations or whatever you can put that in there alright, and then whoa alright, so we've got a Plastic pouch. It's not movable. However, you could kind of slice it if you wanted to and move it around It's kind of up to you. So and then inside of here. It's like a Little sealed pocket here. Okay, it's just the one sticker of icons. Alright, I'm not gonna take it out Just because just one sticker so But yeah, it's all the Ashley Shelley colors, which is kind of nice So it's just got some different things on there. So yeah, kind of cool All right, so let's turn the page and then it says this planner belongs to and then it has the Ashley Shelley stuff And that's from January in 2019 through December of 2019 and it's got the little perforated edges. I want to say they had those last year maybe I can't remember but I think they had those last year Anyway, so then there's some information from Ashley Shelley and she just gives you some planner tips Which is kind of awesome and then on this side is kind of just a nice blank page for an inspiration board Which I kind of like because you know me. I don't I mean I like structure. I just don't like a lot of structure So that's kind of nice. You could you know, like it says right draw and tape all of the inspiration here for your year ahead It's so true. So if you've got you know goals and the goal setting things like that put it in there Or use it for something totally different So next page there is important contacts with some lines favorite meal ideas breakfast dinners and lunches I like that. That's kind of nice, you know or things that were like a hit at your house or something like that All right, next page. These are kind of reminiscent of the Aaron Condren boxes, but this is a little bit more structure just because it has the months on there So it's a 2019 planning overview and I kind of like this. It's kind of nice I know a lot of people use like in the Aaron Condren ones They have these boxes in the front of the planner to before you get into the months and a lot of people use them for Basically the same thing like a monthly overview But this would be easily enough covered up with a sticker or some washy or even just like whiteout tape If you wanted to use it for something else, you could just use all of these boxes for something else too So, you know, it's still versatile with still giving you some structure if that makes sense So the yearly overview you've got 2019 also 2020, which is nice I love to have a 2020 or like the next full calendar year in that planner if that makes sense because sometimes you're scheduling vacations or you're kind of like grand scheme looking at things of like, okay that one week There's this conference in Orlando and we want to go and it's always the second week in September or whatever So you're kind of like planning things and just kind of like general forecasting for the next year So I always really like that Now it has all the 2019 holidays. Well not all of them, but some of them So we've got that And then we get into January. All right So all the paper has been the same except for the ones that have the tabs are very thick like like a nice Thick cardstock. All right. So here is the January 2019 layout It's actually really nice. So they're not perfect boxes. They're more like rectangles and they have little lines on them They are are they dotted? They kind of look like they're like dotted a little bit very reminiscent of just like lined paper from a notebook It's kind of what it looks like. So it's very faint But if you do want to write like say you want to like write a list of something you could definitely Kind of use that as a guideline, which is nice Also, I'm loving that it has last month's monthly view as well as the next month's monthly view on here as well That's really nice again with that forecasting or paydays or like whatever you're looking forward to it's like, okay Yeah, okay, then yeah the 15th will work But you know I'm out of town on the 22nd or you know Like you can just kind of like talk about that stuff and like see it visually that really helps me On the left-hand side also, there are notes and then there are some of those holidays that are put up at the very very top In a very faint purple writing as well and then into the months So here's the first page in January. It says create the life you love in January And that's just it looks kind of more like a vision board kind of a thing I know that they do this. What did I just review an inkwell press planner? I did like a first impressions on as well So it's different, but it's kind of the a similar idea So like goal-setting things that you could change for next month, you know all that kind of stuff and it looks like I mean I'm just kind of reading over some of these it looks like these could be Modifiable a little bit too or you don't necessarily have to use this page to if it's just like not your jam kind of cool something different and Then okay, so this is a notes page, but it's two columns and then here's a notes page That is just all you line and then we get into this all right So we've got a daily planner, but it's you know a week on two pages So the very top we have a note section your monthly word, which I believe you can put in right over here so your your word of the month and then Then it has all these like little colon so you can put like what you're doing at specific times So say you work at 7 a.m. You can just put 7 a.m. Work, or you can put 7 a.m. 2 3 p.m. Work if you really want to do that And that's got a bunch of lines and then a to-do list and then it says do today and then dinner So that's kind of nice and then over to the right hand side. There are listed holidays So like the 31st is New Year's Eve and the first is New Year's Day and then all of them are exactly the same as the others But let's get into looking at some more Alright here. So here is the next page and yeah, everything looks exactly the same If you guys watched my what was it my inkwell press planner like my mock horizontal Which this is actually kind of a horizontal orientation but I could get more on board with this one just because it's more of a list of times and Other lines so you really wouldn't necessarily have to use this for times if you didn't want to you could write very easily Shopping or whatever and then like put where you're going or if there's specific things you have to do There's also a to-do list. So I like that. It's like a Column kind of because my brain works in this way and it doesn't work in this way but I did that mock plan with me and Even my mom was laughing at me. She's like oh Emily that was so horrible. I'm like I know she's like but it was really funny I'm like well, thanks I'll link that up in a card if you guys want to watch me struggle Doing a horizontal but this I think you could if you were a horizontal person or if you were a vertical person I feel like this could work for you with this layout because it is you know column E That's not even a word. What am I talking about? anyway, but yeah, so this is the month and then we are now in to February and So all the months are gonna look the same but let's go in the back because sometimes there's other accoutrements in the back You just you'd never know so let's take a peek and see okay, so we're at now We're in to all right So now we're into the last page of the month, which is December 30th through January 5 All right, and then we've got some notes pages Ta-da All right, so we have little notes pages with you know hearts on them. So let's say one two three four oops five six seven eight nine ten All right, so you get ten notes pages that are just there for you, which is kind of awesome And then on the back it just has more information about Ashley Shelley and then in the back over here It's got this still the same hard like the hard board It's not cardboard, but it's you know like a solid permanent cover. I can't talk today you guys I just like worked all day and got my oil changed just like I Can't adult and human right now. I don't know but yeah, it's like a really really nice very very sturdy It's like a nice gloss on it too So I feel like if you spilled something if you wiped it up super super quick it would be all right I mean clearly if you left something it probably wouldn't be the best But um yeah, it's very smooth like very smooth feeling and it's like kind of glossy I don't know if you guys can see that but it is kind of glossy and then this is what the back looks like still has the Reinforced corners. Sorry. I'm not in the frame. Whoops and then Has the Ashley Shelley logo on the back as well. So yeah, that is a Sneaky a sneaky little peek inside of the Ashley Shelley 2019 planner if you guys want a $5 off coupon code Feel free to put in Emily 5 at checkout for $5 off one of your Ashley Shelley 2019 signature planners if you use an Ashley Shelley planner Let me know in the comments down below and also even if you don't use an Ashley Shelley planner in 2019 or ever let me know which planner you do use or planners I mean I know a lot of people use a lot of different planners and maybe what you use them for I would be really curious to know in the comments and also that's a cool way for me to check out new planners too Because I can always order some planners and do some open box first impressions like I just did with this one So that is going to be it I want to thank again the Ashley Shelley team for sending this planner my way and thinking of me and you guys Because you can get a little discount if you'd like one again The links will be down below for you guys, but it's kind of nice to see a little sneaky sneaky peek And they launched yesterday as the time that you're seeing this because I'm pre filming everything And it looks like they're going to be launching on the 7th and I'm going to post this video at super early morning I think maybe 5 a.m. Central Standard time on the 8th. So like the next day So You know if you want a little bit of a more inside look on this stuff You can take a peek with me, um, which you already just did and um make your decision from there So yeah, so anyway, I'm in a jet. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today If you liked it make sure to give me a thumbs up You can always give me a thumbs down too if you don't like it But if you made it this far in the video, you might as well just give it a thumbs up Feel free to subscribe if you would like to join the fde family and I will see y'all in the next video Bye guys Oh