My name is.... and I'm a Planner Addict. HELP!

It all began with an Amazon gift card at Christmas and the search for the ultimate planner. Enter, The Happy Planner. It arrived January 17th 2016. Since then I do not want to think about what I have spent on it never mind what my Mum has spent on bits and pieces for my planner. She's feeling nostalgic, when I was a little girl I loved getting stickers and notebooks and pens and ALL things stationary related! I loved the summer just before I went back to school so I could buy new pencils and pens! Yep the addiction has always been there its just become more profound this year!! 

The reason for this post is that last night, March 3rd (my no spend month) I ordered a Websters Pages Color Crush Personal in white. I'm a little ashamed of myself. My justification - it was purchased using last months leftover money. Even worse - my husband encouraged it. We are a little hopeless. 

Websters Colour Crush Personal

I ordered this from Hey Little Magpie which is U.K based. I ordered the kit version so it comes with all the inserts as ordering separately was going to be more expensive, so that's sort of a bargain right? See there goes the justifying again. My reason for having a personal sized planner is that carrying an A5 is not always practical, I don't always want to carry a big bag/backpack. Also they get pretty heavy. I just wanted something that I can take on the go with me and so I can check dates when I'm out and about. Also I can do some minimal decorating still, so all those stickers won't go to waste. When it arrives I will pop up another blog post with my thoughts on the color crush! 

Now onto the other reason I need some sort of intervention. The new Happy Planners. I want two of them. Do I need two - probably not. Can I afford two - no but its my birthday at the start of April. Can I justify having two - Possibly. Is living in the U.K a massive drawback to my plan of getting two? - YES! I love the Be Bright planner but MAMBI won't release it to U.K stockists, which I think is pretty unfair. I refuse to pay $47 in shipping from MAMBI directly. 

Images from Me and My Big Ideas

This planner is so me. It matches my sewing room perfectly and my idea was to use this planner for everything sewing related. So the only things I would be writing in this planner would be sewing related, fabric swatches, measurements, notes, to do lists, photos of the finished item. See, totally justifying the purchase BUT only if I can get it in the U.K or if someone would like to get it and post it to me and I can Paypal them the money! 

The second planner I love is the Hello Life/Stay Golden. I'm not sure which size, It depends on what I decide to use it for.I could use the larger one for Memory Planning as trying to do that in my everyday, everything in one planner just does not work. I was talking to my very understanding Husband the other day about this. We've only been married 3 months and I really want to look back on the year and see fun memories not all bills to pay and what's to be cleaned. My laptop just died and it had all my photos on it. So now I want something that has my favourite photos as a hard copy so to speak. For this I think the larger planner is the way forward. Then I would keep my current one that is in my binder as a household/everyday planner. If I decided to not memory keep I would get the smaller version though I really do feel that I would like to Memory Plan. This all kinda hinges on the Be bright planner as I really need a separate sewing planner! 

Images from Me and My Big Ideas

My name is Lola and I need an intervention.