Reader Zoey had a great idea that she shared with me.
“Thank-you” for all your wonderful planners! I have used them in so many different ways. The monthly menu planner, weekend meal planner, pantry list and shopping list.
I recently introduced the One Year Planner to a young family I am working with. Along with monthly budgeting, I had them fill in all the upcoming birthdays, grad parties, weddings, etc for the year.
This planner was quite an eye opener to them!
The family had not stopped to add up all the gifts they purchase through out the year. They were also able to see an event they want to do in December, that requires tickets to be purchased in August. Thank you for all your hard work!
I LOVE this use of The Peaceful Mom One Year Planner to plan gift giving and special events for the year! Write birthdays and other special occasions on the planner in the appropriate month and decide the amount of money you would like to spend. You can then calculate how much money you need to save each week before the event in order to reach your goal.
Click here to print The Peaceful Mom One Year Planner.
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Check out our DIY Gifts on a Budget Pinterest Board for budget gift ideas that don’t look cheap.
How do you use The Peaceful Mom One Year Planner? Leave a comment. 🙂
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This might sound totaly crazy, but I use your weekly and monthy planner to organize my lab experiments (genetics). It goes something like: Mo: seeding cells, tue: staining, wed: microscopy+evaluation+ new seeding. 🙂 I also use them at home, so I made some copies for the lab. 🙂 It helps me to have enough to do, but not get stucked till 8 pm
Haha! I love it! 🙂
Kimberlee, After typing my comments about the year planner, I realized we hadn’t added the February and April schools breaks. Adding the breaks reminds us to be looking for freebies or budget money for the children to do something that week.
Thank you again! for all these planners, I am Old School prefer to write it all out! Jelena’s post another great use of Kimberlee’s Planners 🙂
You are very welcome Zoey! Thanks for your great idea. 🙂
I did this for the first time at the beginning of this year. I looked at birthdays, Christmas, baby showers, as well as hostess gifts for the baby showers that will be held for me. Not only has it helped me think about how much to budget for gifts each month, but I was able to shop after-Christmas clearance sales with specific people in mind rather than just stocking up and hoping I can use the gifts later. We will be going to one income after we have our twins so “intentionality” is my plan to help us save even more this year!
Using a planner I am able to see how many birthday and anniversary cards I will need for the year. I go to Dollar Tree in January and buy all the cards at one time, so that way I don’t have to run to the store last minute and pay more for a card. It really saves me so much time, not to mention money!
Great idea! Thanks!