March Set Up In Binder

Hello, Butterflies

Today I want to share with you my March Binder Set Up!  This post is for the butterflies that use a binder to Bullet Journal Planner. 

Let me tell you a little about the binder that I am using. I have a mini three-ring binder that I have bought from Target. I could not find a design in the binder that I enjoyed looking at, so I printed out a design on four sheets of label paper. Then cover the binder inside and outside. I have had this binder for two years now and need to recover it, sorry for the rough look of the binder. 

If you have been reading this blog you know that I carry a Travelers Notebook and love it to death, but I also use a three planner that is my desk planner. 

Last week I have posted my March set up for my T.N. and if you like to see it Click Here to see how it turned out.  I have some Butterflies out there that also plan in binder style planners. So I will be sharing how I have my March Layout in my mini binder. You will see that some of my T.N. Layouts and my Mini Binder layouts similar. I do decorate the Mini Binder, but not as much as my T.N.

In the Mini Binder, I have a Cover page, Weekly spreads, Weekly overview page and Daily sections.

In the Mini Binder, I do not have Trackers or Collections in this planner. I do have a large section of my project planning. 

If you would like to see how I have my project planning in my Mini Binder please feel free to leave a commit below. I would be glad to share how it works for me. 

If you enjoyed seeing how I set up my Mini Binder for the month of March please leave a comment below. If you would like to see more Binder planning also leave a comment below.


I hope you enjoyed seeing my March Set Up!  

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What Planners I use Right Now

Hello, Butterflies

Today I would like to share what planners I use and how I use them. 

As you can see in the picture above I use four planners. I don't use all of them in a day. Out of the four planners, I only use 2 on a daily base.

So let me tell you what they are and how I use them. 

I am going to start on the left, the Pink Planner is a three-ring binder from Target. This planner is my family planner that I leave out on my desk for the family.  It holds a monthly calendar with everyone's events marked down.  It also holds schools info like phones and days off. It also holds kids passwords, and also holds family wish list. The last section in the planner is just notepaper.

So the Gray Planner is also a three-ring binder from Target.  This planner is my Business Planner. This planner holds my project planning, time log, brain dump section, notes, expense sheets, blog notes, and posting calendar, and business passwords. This planner is also used daily.

My daily planner is my Travelers Notebook. In this planner, I have notes insert, goals and trackers, monthly calendar, weekly insert, daily insert, journaling inserts and a collection insert. This planner is my personal planner and I am the only persons that open this planner. Sometimes I also take this one out of this house with me when running to the store. 

The last planner is one that I carry in my purse, my on the go planner. In this planner, my first section is my monthly section, weekly meal plan, notes, list section and contacts section. 

At the beginning of each month, I set down with all four planners to update with events for the whole family. Each Saturday I will set down with my Travelers Notebook and On The Go planners.

When I started using a planner I started out with only One planner. I have added more planners to my collection to lighting the load on one planner and also when I leave the house I am not carrying a Brick of a planner. 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I am planning in as of now never know it may change later down the line but for now this is working for me and my family.

Thank you for stopping by to see what planners I use. If you have any questions or suggestions please free to leave them below in the commits. 

As Always Have A Good Day Butterflies, See You Soon.

What Planners Have I Used

What Planners I have Used!

Hello, Butterflies

Today I want to talk about the planners I have used in the last 2 years. I will be discussing the different sizes I have used and what size I have found to be my planner peace. 

In the beginning of my planner journey, I start out with a Personal Size Binder Recollection planner from Michaels.  The reason I pick it was as it was a size I could put in my purse and with staring out planning it was an affordable brand of planners. 

I use this size for 5 months before I decided that it was too small for what I need it for. The Inserts I used was the Recollection brand for 3 months and found that I did not like the layout of the inserts. So I started making my own inserts for the last 2 months. Not sure If I was thinking I could add more space with my own inserts, but it did not work for me. 

The Next planner I went to was a 3 Ring Mini Binder from the Target Dollar Spot.  The size is an A5 size, which I fell in love with. I love the binder style as I could move inserts around and be able to set the planner up how I wanted it.  Used this planner for 6 months adding my own dividers and folders. At the end of the year, my loving husband had stopped by target and bought me a new mini blinder. The new binder was pretty but found that the rings were a little bigger than my last one. This means I add more inserts and more accessories to the point I hated opening it up to plan each day.

So I was looking around on Youtube at the different planners that were the most popular at the time. I have seen the Erin Condren the life planner but found that was out of my price point for planners. There was also Happy planner but at the time I did not want to also buy a new whole punch for the disk. 

So more hunting around I come across someone talking about a Bullet Journal.  I also have seen people talking about Bullet Journal in a Traveler's Notebook. I was not sure I was ready to plan in a Bullet Journal as I messed up a lot will I was planning. So I went and found videos on how I could make my own TN out of cloth, this way it was still in my budget.

My first TN that I had made was the stander Traveler's notebook size. I use it for some time, love the style of being able to switch booklet out when they got full. I was not happy with the size of the pages again. 
The picture below is my second TN I tried to make a little bigger from the stander size.

For my birthday my kids bought me some Tombow markers and my husband bought me a Leuchtturm 1917 notebook. I again fell in love with the size of the notebook, also love the paper. I used it for 5 months and found that I was missing being able to use my Traveler's Notebook. I love the L1917 but missed dashboards adding folders or just changing the themes. 

So it was time for me to jump back into a Traveler's Notebook but it had to be an A5 size. I did not want to pay for a TN cover as there are so many out there that a beautiful. I wanted something that I had made and no one would have the same cover for me. 

So I made it and Love it. I think I love it more because I make it! I still do Bullet Journal but I do it in My Traveler's Notebook. The 3 ring Mini Binder I still us but its a desk planner. I have also changed it to the Bullet Journal style of planning too. It's more of a Family and Bill tracking planner. 

So in the last 2 years, I used...

• Personal Size Binder (Printed Inserts)
• A5 Binder (Printed Inserts)
• Traveler's Notebook Wide (Printed Inserts)
• Leuchtturm 1917 (bullet journal)
• Traveler's Notebook A5 (bullet journal)

If you have any questions or suggestions please free to leave them below in the commits. 

Thank You for stopping by!

As Always Have A Good Day Butterflies, See You Soon.