Trying to choose a planner for 2025? You’re in luck! In today’s episode of Best of Both Worlds, Sarah provides guidelines for choosing a planner that will work for you. Depending on how you plan, and what kind of style/binding/goal setting content you like, there is probably a planner out there that will help make you more organized. She discusses several of the top brands, and their attributes.
In this episode we discuss the planners that we are both using (and have used). A planner on its own won’t change everything, but if a pretty planner nudges you to plan more regularly and thoughtfully…that’s not a bad thing!
In the Q&A a listener asks what the highest costs are in raising teens. There are the obvious ones (college? Or private school for folks who go that route…) but there are also things to consider in terms of lessons/contests/trips/etc. These are all optional, to be sure, but we’ve also realized over the years that we want to be able to provide a lot of these things. That’s something to think about when making financial choices (to the extent that people are able to do so).
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You didn’t mention food! I have 3 teenage boys who eat nonstop. And also gets pricey at restaurants as they move from kids menu and have more refined tastes
@Laura V – (hello to another LV!) Yeah, food can get expensive too. We just don’t go out to eat much, partly because it is a hassle and SO expensive for 7 people!
Staples and Indigo Chapters is where I’ll go if I am to check out planners, Ms. Laura Vanderkam. If you don’t know what Indigo Chapters is about, you can tell me. I also wasn’t expecting you to come up with the term “plannerpalooza”.
I agree with you that our systems and methods of planning are more important than which planners we use. I also need to figure out where on a planner will I fit in the time-tracking sheets. If I can’t, then I’ll need to use Excel spreadsheets as I always did.
I didn’t get what the Hobonichi planners have to do with tax reductions, Ms. Laura Vanderkam. I wonder if you could clarify it for me.
Your analysis on the costs of teens basically once again necessitates my payment of my expenses over the years back to my parents. But first, I’ll need to calculate how large these expenses really are. I wonder if you can tell me how to do that.
@Yukun – Oh, the tax deduction…Since Sarah has a podcast as part of her business that’s devoted to planning, she could potentially deduct the planner as a business expense. But I guess she didn’t do that.
I’m not expecting my kids to pay me back! I think we all do what we can for our kids. But it probably is nice to treat your parents if you can on occasion 🙂
Thanks very much, Ms. Laura Vanderkam.