2024 wall planner

So here’s some tiny-ass impact for ya.

I was in a store the other day that sells year planners – something I’ve been wanting to try out this year. It’s basically the whole year’s calendar on one page, so you can see every day, week and month of the year at a glance.

It was whiteboard-marker compatible, which sounded awesome – something changes, you just erase and rewrite. Much neater than those unimaginative “paper” calendars with their lame single month views.

But then I was like “ok, so this is good for a year… what do I do with it next year?”. I seriously stood there thinking about this.

Here were some options I thought of:

• Throw it out when I’m done (not my favourite)
• Try and reuse it next year by ignoring the Mon, Tue, Wed etc and just going by the date… errgh…
• Print some stickers to cover up the dates – all 366 of them (2024 is a leap year!)
• Don’t buy it.

Even with this little $10 product, my brain was programmed to run through the 4 stages of owning stuff and just couldn’t resolve it.

Frustrating, because I love the idea of an erasable year planner. But my brain then skipped to the next best thing.

I could just print one.

Yes it’s still disposable. No it won’t be erasable. But at least I’ll know it’s going into paper recycling (or the kids can draw on it and maybe it hangs around forever on the fridge).

So that’s what I’m rolling with.

Found a calendar online (that I modified slightly), scaled it up to A1 size, and my local print guy will have it ready this week.

This is not cheaper, or easier, or sexier, but it’s the option that sits best with me.

If you’d like the same, help yourself to this A1-sized 2024 wall planner. Send it to your printer, or print at home on a bunch of A4’s and stick them together.

Here’s to a well organised year 🍻