Getting organized for unemployment

[dreamshark]

Yesterday ended up being devoted mostly to Minicon Programming stuff, so I didn't get around to unloading my car until today. I have WAY too much stuff that I have been carrying from job to job for years, plus lamps and a giant picture that I had taken to work to brighten up my windowless office. It was depressing carting all that stuff inside, considering how recently I had carted it all out to my new workplace. *sigh* There's a lot to do to get back into the unemployed and looking mode. Let's see, #1) go through the Digi paperwork - naah, still too demoralizing to look at - I'll tackle that tomorrow. #2 Unload the car. DONE! Yay! Unfortunately, now I have to clean my front porch, which frankly wasn't in such great shape before I dragged all those boxes and lamps into it and is now a disaster area. I settled on cleaning out my old Franklin Planner archives. I haven't used that planner for 3 jobs now, but I think now might be a good time to bring it out again. Thing is - now I have no income, I can't really afford to buy the $70 calendar pages (even if the 2003 pages were still available, by some miracle). I think I'll just make do with the huge pile of extra pages I have in this binder over here, or maybe print up my own. I do have a 7-hole punch that matches the binder. Then when I'm done, I can make a list. Yeah, that's the ticket, a list.

Comments

[sraun]

If Franklin Planner is anything like Day-Timers, they'll cheerfully sell you 12 months starting a reasonable approximation of 'whenever you like'.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Good that you have the seven-hole punch. One of the things that those planners do to keep people locked into their system--and buying replacement papers--is to have unique binder hole placements.

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[jbru.livejournal.com]

The Franklin people will sell you calendar pages starting on the quarters. So you could pick up a the September refill and have the remainder of 2003 and 2004 up to next September.

Another thing you might look at: I stopped using my paper Franklin Planner when I started using their software for the Palm.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

I've got all the electronic organizers I need. Sometimes I just need to turn pages and write things down by hand.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Why not just use a 3 ring notebook and notebook paper - it's a LOT cheaper. If a full size one is too large, they used to sell 6 ring ones about 3 by 5 inches, and also 4 by 6. I understand what you mean by sometimes you just have to write it down.

These days, if it isn't in my Visor, it's scribbled on the back of old envelopes....

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Because I HAVE the Franklin planner, that's why. I also have about a ream of various specialized papers for it: meeting planners, telephone logs, colored paper in different colors, etc. Clear plastic rulers that snap in and out of the binder. Index tabs for all the months. Even a tiny little erasable whiteboard with 7 little holes in it. And a little ziploc bag that fits the binder rings and holds odds and ends like markers for the erasable whiteboard. Because it's cool, that's why. It's got a little brass nameplate with my name on it, and it closes with a zipper, making it into a sort of pseudo-briefcase. It's showing wear around the edges (not being real leather), but it served me well for several years and I like it.

I just wish I had some calendar pages for it.