Remember this photo?
I posted that photo about a year ago to document the sickness I have with compulsively buying new calendars and spending HOURS re-writing birthdays and anniversaries in each one.
How about these resolutions? Especially this one:
7. Do not buy any more calendars this year. Amen. I have this bad habit of buying new calendars every few months. Not only is this a bad habit financially, but it feeds an already unhealthy office-supply addiction. I buy new ones because I don’t like it when the old ones become messy. But - it takes me a full day to transfer everything (neatly) into the new calendar. So, it also becomes a HUGE waste of time. I’ve ordered my desk calendar for the year and I have a daily planner for my purse. I need NOTHING else. If it gets messy, I must suck it up and deal with it. I will NOT buy a new one!
Well, I lied. I bought another calendar this past weekend and finally filled in all of the important dates. I couldn’t help myself. It was so pretty! And it had this great magnetic closure that makes it easy to throw in a bag and not worry about it getting wrinkled. And it has those cute perforated corners so you’ll always be able to flip to the write page. And it’s pretty! Did I mention that? And that I also needed something to do with all of the new pens I bought during school supply outings? And that the calendar is SO PRETTY!
I’m sick.
I am the same way with notepads. I usually don’t get through an entire one before its too “icky” for me to use anymore. Especially if a couple of pages are torn out in a non-perfect kind of way.
Plus, I just like writing things down.
We can be OCD together.
Clearly when you said no new calendars this year back in January, you meant for the school year. And now? It’s a new school year… and you have to be on the same calendar year as your kids. See? Totally justified.
No photo of the pretty new calendar?
I would like to see the new calendar before I make a judgement.
I have the same obsession. NPS (neat planner syndrome) - I can’t tell you how many notebooks I have had to purchase for to do lists either - or post it notes that got folded funny and are now deemed useless to me.
This year I was cured. Thanks to Franklin Covey - You get a new planner EVERY MONTH. And I splurged on the leather envelope style closure.
I realize this is tempting you to purchase another planner….this may be your last one though.
http://shopping.franklincovey.com/shopping/catalog/productpaper.jsp?id=prod1580045&c=Julie-Morgenstern-Daily-Wire-Bound-Organizing-System—Jul-07—Jun-08
well? Can’t we see it? I MUST see it. And I help myself with this problem by having our family wall calendar be a Jan-Dec one and my purse planner a Sept-Aug one. That way I get to feed my addiction 2x’s a year.
That pink, grey, green & white one, on top of the butterfly one? I ALMOST bought that at Barnes & Noble last night
Soooooooooooo pretty!
Was it a calendar that goes from Sept 07-Dec 08? If it was then it doesn’t count toward this year, or next year for that matter, cause it’s a “mid-term” calendar.
I know I’m not helping.
Oh crap, this is funny. Dude, keri smith just released an awesome “non-planner”! In fact, ironically enough, her announcement was the post listed right below this one in my google reader. SORRY!
Here it is:
http://www.kerismith.com/blog/archives/000499.html
You are too cute!!!!! When I bought HMac school supplies.. (which he was totally not interested in) I bought myself tons of new loot!!! I had WAYYYY more fun than he did.. Oh wait, he didn’t even want to go with me, so I went alone..
We are dorks!!!!!!
My fav place to drool - I mean look….
http://www.seejanework.com
Do we not get a pic of the new oh-so-pretty calendar?
Heh. I was wondering how you were doing with that resolution, especially after reading that you’d been back-to-school shopping.
Yes. We must get help. I do this with blank journals. I already have a ton that are still blank and yet if I see a cute one, I must have it. It’s a sickness.
I love this entry!
yeah we are giong to need to see a picture of pretty planner
I do it too! And address books. I keep buying those damn things. And, then I get so mad when I mess up while writing in pen in the new one. I am with you, all the way.
My daughter and I love to go school supply shopping. I will not mention how many planners and notebooks we have. My son couldn’t care less about these things. I think maybe he was adopted or switched at birth or something.
I have a Cars calendar for 2007. I can’t wait to see what our 2008 calandar will look like. Maybe my Mom (Juls) will let me pick it out.
I used to do this as well. I love nice-looking note pads and calendars! I’m trying to convert my obsession over to an online program, but it just isn’t the same. Sigh.
I’m right there with you - and the saddest part is that I don’t even USE them, since I actually keep track of my datebook online.
I hestitate to show you this:
http://www.kerismith.com/blog/
You know you want it.
I have a brand new one in my bag with the cutest black & white houndstooth cover. I haven’t written a single thing in it yet because I have an evil office supply thought with it. I’m going to make an excel database with all the important stuff I transfer from one to the other all the time (birthdays & anniversarys) and then I’m going to print those on clear labels in colorful fun fonts. I am crazy.
also - just saw the new kitchen floor at mrZ’s flickr…and am now thinking up Mr. Motorcycle’s next project. Actually it’ll be like the 4th project because I’ve already got 1-3 totally planned for him
That really is the cutest planner! Where did you pick that up? And someone mentioned Spet - Dec 2008, is that the case on this one?
OMG, i’m so totally there. i love me some planners. i even have a phone that’s a pda. but…um… if you think i EVER know when or where i’m going, well… sigh.
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon you - I am, however, glad to find so many people that share my guilty pleasure. It’s almost like I trick myself into thinking that the more calenders I keep the more organized I will be. Ha.
THANK YOU. Can we start a support group? (I’d proudly display a button on my blog :-)) I thought I was the only one who had a calendar fetish! Oh, and blank journals. And notebooks.
I must agree that you absolutely need an intervention. Multiple calendars? Hours spent re-writing each one? I think you need one of those electronic Palm-Pilots or something. You probably could have bought one already with the money you’ve spent on paper ones!