my first erin condren, a year and a half later...

hi guys! so you know how i published a post around 30 minutes ago about my january (planner), and i mentioned this post would come in a few days. lol. yeah. i'm ready to post this now. lol. so. my thoughts on my first ever erin condren life planner. this is also partially a comparison post of my older hourly against the new vertical planner. enojoy! ~Lindsay ^.~

something you may begin to notice with my end of month planner posts, i've actually been liking planning in the vertical a lot more. i'm not sure if part of it was because most stores design their stickers for the vertical (and some horizontal), but even less so for the hourly? the hourly planner's boxes are a lot wider than the vertical, so i could still get away with using vertical and happy planner kits. another thing too, i'm not huge into the no white space planning, just because i don't think it's practical. that being said, it's nice buying weekly kits and being able to use them for up to two weeks! also, any other straggler stickers i may have, i've been building up my own random stickers kit for those weeks (which remain to be photographed as i pre-stuck a a few of these into my vertical).

as always, i tag my posts. so feel free to check the tags for my hourly life planner or the vertical life planner.

here's what we're lookin like after 1.5 years and stickers. as you can probably tell, and i may have mentioned it in my haul post for the vertical planner, this coil is not big enough for 1.5 years of sticker usage. and they use the same diameter coil regardless if you get one year or 1.5.

what i'm holding up is the first 6 months (June - Dec 2016), and about where that and a year looks like against the coil.

after seeing a video by Kayla, owner of Oh Hello Stationery Co, i got inspired to go ahead and uncoil the parts that didn't belong to 2017. this is a 2 pack of plastic cinch coils that i got at the local craft store for about $3. these coils were a bit wider than i needed, so i fed it through every other hole.

here are all the pages i ended up removing completely, which were sticker and notes pages and the back pocket. notice how many teeth this poor snap-in bookmark has! omg. we lost most of those around the 1 year mark, which isn't too bad.

here's what 1 year looks like in my used in the hourly (left) compared to my new vertical (right) which has maybe 1 month's worth of spreads in it at this point.