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{GIVEAWAY} – Personal Planner: Never Forget Your Mom’s Birthday Again

August 17, 2015 by Rika 16 Comments

Guys, this is not the first time I’ve raved about Personal Planner [ Facebook / Twitter / Insta ] and their dayplanners with incredible customization options. Actually, it’s the third – I was the lucky winner of a giveaway on Andi’s site (and she actually just finished running another Personal Planner giveaway – check out her beautiful 2016 planner she created), and wrote about my 2014 planner here. I also wrote about my 2015 planner here. So I’m sure you can guess what today’s post is about – my 2016 planner!

I figured the last two posts would give you a good idea of what the planner look like in real life – beautiful and glossy, with high quality paper. This time, as I wait for my new one to be delivered, I thought I would show you how I made mine, and all the choices you get as you go along creating your planner.

[There is a giveaway AND a discount code from the awesome folks at Personal Planner below, so be sure not to miss it!  Edit: contest and discount code are now now CLOSED.]

I took some screencaps as I went through the process to give you an idea of the kinds of things you can choose. First off – VERY important – cover page! You can upload your own photo (recognize mine?) or choose one of their approximately bajillion designs and colors, and then add your title:

After that, it’s time to make a decision about how you want your pages laid out – do you want the days vertically or horizontally? 5-day week or 7-day week? Sunday or Monday start date? You can also choose the banners at the top of the pages – the options have increased significantly from last year and I had a hard time deciding! You can add in detail boxes for each day like exercise or working hours. You can also see that I have my ‘Personal Dates’ added into the book – the very first year I input important birthdays and anniversaries, and now every year when I log in they are all still there with the option to have them printed directly onto the right days in the planner.

From here, you move to the little boxes running along the bottom of each page. I switched mine up a little bit from last year, but I love the dinner planner and to-do list, so I couldn’t get rid of those!

Then I had a big decision to make: the back pages. The backs of these planners are chock-full of extras. Last year I had a next-2-years-overview, maps, and lined paper. I didn’t use the overview much, or the maps, but I used the note paper. This year a coloring book (!!!) was an option so I decided to try that one. I was also happy to see they took many people’s suggestion into this year’s planner, and there is now a monthly overview for each month (see option 3 below).

A fun little quirk that you get to personalize is the owner info page at the front. I left mine exactly the same as last year!

It doesn’t end there – you get to choose the back cover too! Mine was a little homage to my ‘other’ home in Canada – Roatan life on the front, and Canadian life on the back.

As you can see, you get a ton of options and choices and a really well-rounded dayplanner for under $40 (including shipping!) for the larger size that I chose. There are other sizes and prices available as well. They also make customized non-agenda notebooks too. SO MANY CHOICES!!

So I’m sure you want one too now, right? Well, if you just can’t wait for the giveaway, the lovely folks at Personal Planner are offering a 15% discount code for Cubicle Throwdown readers!! Use the code D-BSAL-ASFT at the checkout to get 15% off your order. This code is valid until August 31, 2015.

Wanna try your luck at the giveaway? Personal Planner and I are giving away one free planner of the winner’s choice – any size/style/customization – including shipping!

Giveaway rules: to enter, please ‘Like’ the Personal Planner Facebook page (and you should probably ‘Like’ the Cubicle Throwdown one too while you’re over there), and leave me a comment below telling me that you’ve liked the Personal Planner page, and your best ‘If I Would Have Had A Dayplanner _________ Would Not Have Happened’ story. I have been getting a kick out of reading these stories every year. If you wrote a story last year, tell me a joke this year! [Please make sure you use a valid email address that you actually check for Disqus when leaving your comment, or I won’t be able to contact you if you win.]

Giveaway closes on September 15, 2015.


Guys, make sure to follow me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter … there’s lots of extras posted there that don’t make it onto the blog. I also have Google+ if anyone even uses that? And I’m on Bloglovin’, so you can follow me there too! Plus it makes me try to post more than once a month. So there’s that.

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  1. Alana Belliveau says

    September 11, 2015 at 11:55 am

    Liked both pages 🙂
    If I Would Have Had A Dayplanner _________ Would Not Have Happened…I would have remembered to have a prescription refilled last week…and this week. I finally remembered to have it refilled last night (via my pharmacy’s app) and now I can’t remember to pick it up!

    Reply
    • Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

      September 14, 2015 at 8:45 am

      Yikes!! I used to be the worst at remembering filling/picking up prescriptions… now that I live here I just walk into the pharmacy and ask for whatever I want, and they hand it to me 🙂

      Reply
    • Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

      September 17, 2015 at 6:24 am

      CONGRATS Alana – you’re the winner of a free planner from Personal Planner! Please send me an email at cubicle.throwdown@gmail.com in the next two days to receive your voucher. Thanks for entering!

      Reply
      • Alana Belliveau says

        September 17, 2015 at 11:26 am

        No way!!! I am so excited! (Now I won’t have an excuse on why I forget to pick up my prescriptions! 😛 ) Sending you an email right now!

        Reply
  2. Heather S says

    August 28, 2015 at 7:49 am

    If I Would Have Had A Dayplanner I wouldn’t have missed a meeting at work and been fired……………..just kidding! 😉

    Reply
    • Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

      August 28, 2015 at 8:21 am

      Woah… you scared me for a second there 🙂

      Reply
  3. jillacox says

    August 21, 2015 at 12:23 am

    I love the planner I won last year! I keep forgetting to send you a photo of it. Will put it on my to-do list!

    Reply
    • Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

      August 24, 2015 at 1:39 am

      Yeahhhhh! Can’t wait to see it chica!

      Reply
  4. Brandi says

    August 20, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    If I Would Have Had A Dayplanner I Would Not Have … taken today off work. I misremembered when we were coming back from visiting the grandparents, oops!

    Also liked both 😉

    Reply
    • Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

      August 24, 2015 at 1:39 am

      Haha – oh nooooo! Hope it all ended up ok 🙂 Thanks for entering – good luck!

      Reply
  5. KellyPC says

    August 19, 2015 at 8:03 am

    I liked both pages on fb!
    I have a personal-planner & my life was going smoothly until June started & I stopped using it. I can’t keep track of anything, I feel like I’m going crazy. lol, I just cleared off my desk so I can start getting my life back in order!

    Reply
    • Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

      August 20, 2015 at 2:02 am

      Hope this was good inspo to get back into using it! If I fall off the wagon for a few days it’s amazing how quickly I lose track of stuff.

      Reply
  6. Colleen Brynn says

    August 18, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    Liked Personal Planner page!
    Obviously have liked yours for years too, so.
    I don’t have any major mishaps due to lack of planner but I have still not quite found the best way to manage my busy schedule! Maybe this would be the solution!

    Reply
    • Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

      August 20, 2015 at 2:02 am

      You definitely have a lot on your plate girl! I hear ya!

      Reply
  7. Tabitha W says

    August 18, 2015 at 12:13 am

    Ok I liked the post and I have ALWAYS liked the page! I am a social worker so i call my day planner my “life”. So I don’t have a good If I Would Have Had A Dayplanner _________ Would Not Have Happened
    story because I always have a day planner.. Would be great to have a personalized one to!

    Reply
    • Rika - Cubicle Throwdown says

      August 20, 2015 at 2:01 am

      The personalized touches make all the difference 🙂 I’ve always had a dayplanner too! I tried for a little while to use the calendar on my iPhone but I think I lasted about a week before I broke down and got a paper one!

      Reply

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