My Obsession with Erin Condren

Disclaimer: I am not being paid to write this, I really just love Erin Condren that much

My obsession with EC started 3 years ago when my husband was scrambling to get me the perfect gift and his sister suggested that he get me a customized life planner from Erin Condren. He handpicked the pictures to place on the cover and won my heart with his thoughtfulness. Since that first year, a life planner has become my regular Christmas gift and I look forward to picking out my new planner each year.  When we got married in December 2012 he ordered me a planner with my new name and deskpad for the school year that he had customized to change to my new name in January after the wedding.

This past year I was able to order double because I combined my Christmas and Anniversary presents. I got the Life Planner and the Teacher Planner. Honestly, it was a bit of overkill for me, I think I will stick with just one for now, but I have friends who use both religiously. I think I'm just not organized enough to keep up with two organizers.

Some of the things I love about EC are the bright colors and functionality of the planners. I also love how customizable they are - you can have multiple covers and interchange them throughout the year. In fact every product is customizable and can be used for whatever purpose you choose.

There are also tons of facebook groups you can join to help you personalize your planner further and find inspiration for how to make it functional. Here are a few videos that also walk you through some of my favorite products and what comes with them.

Intro to the Teacher Planner - New designs coming in July (and 25% off sale)

Intro to the NEW 2015-2016 Life Planner - LAUNCHES TODAY!!!

Tour of the New Horizontal Layout planner by JenPlans

How to repurpose Teacher Planner for High/Middle School

I found that the teacher planner really was more geared toward elementary but this video is super helpful for secondary teachers

Some of the other products I have tried/want to try are:

The Desk Pad sat on my school desk for 3 years and I used it daily - I still have some of the pages left from my most recent one and it now sits on my desk at home.

I plan on getting this Fun-ctional Family pad to track the twins schedule in the beginning and eventually for assigning chores to the little munchkins - I'm all about that free labor.

Loving the lined note pads to stick in the back of my planner, although I'm pretty obsessed with the lined post-it note pads I currently used for this purpose.

Call me cards - serve a bunch of different purposes - a friend of ours hosted an informal brunch for our out of town family and friends after our wedding and she handed these out at the wedding with the details - I thought it was such a neat way to invite people discreetly without having to mail formal invitations.

If you are interested in getting your own planner or anything from erincondren.com use this link to create an account and we will both receive a $10 credit! If the link above doesn't work you can copy and paste this into your browser: https://www.erincondren.com/referral/invite/ellenburnett0807 once you sign up for your account you will get your own referral link and can start sharing it with friends to get your $10 reward! I almost never pay full price for EC because there are always referrals to be had. What is your ideal planner? How would you customize it?