A5 Filofax Malden with Erin Condren inserts!

Filofax: A5 Malden

     So I have been working out of my ECLP until recently when I decided that I needed to move back into my Filofax. My ECLP was working great, I was using it everyday and keeping it up-to-date the best that I could but I kept having this guilty feeling rush over me when I walked by my Filofax. 

     I think it was the fact that here I spent a lot of money on this planner, carried it for a few months and then abandoned it for another planner. So I decided to combine my ECLP into my Filofax! I had to watch a lot of videos to get my self psyched up to actually pull my planner apart. My last ECLP i pulled apart and used it for meal planning but it was over the summer, I just pulled apart a few pages, and it worked...however, I was planning on pulling EVERYTHING apart.

     I cut up my customized cover. gasp....stress....no looking back now.

     My from and back cover are now hole punched and sitting in my Filofax...I have to say that Erin Condren uses some really strong material to hold together her custom planner covers. I couldn't punch it. I had to have my husband punch it and even then it took him some effort to punch through. Although in his defense the hole punch I was using was a single punch that at times struggles to punch thru 5 pieces of paper. 

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS!!!!

      I was only going to tear out a couple of months to get myself started but I teach 5th grade and I am a mother of two boys with very active Spring baseball and Lacrosse schedules I found that I needed to carry with me an entire school year. (I probably should carry June and July but I am holding out until at least January). 

     

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Stay tuned for my walk-thru of my ECLP in my Filofax post!

     

Erin Condren products in Staples??? WTH?

     So I have purchased a few Erin Condren life planners over the years and I also use the Erin Condren Lesson Plan book. Each June/July I spend hours on her website shopping around trying to figure out exactly what I need and what I cannot live without. My bill usually averages around $175, give or take.
     I love her products. I love being apart of the Erin Condren community of teachers and planners. I love the quality of her work. I HATE that I walked into Staples earlier this week and discovered that I can purchase her items from a box store.
     I am very happy for this company for their recent expansion into the main stream market. I am very happy for this company that they have been able to work out a deal so that their product reaches more people. I am not very happy that this no longer feels like an exclusive club. Yep, I said it. Deep down inside of me I really liked that there was a community of people that knew about Erin Condren and for those that didn't they needed to do some research and find out. I liked that my planner would come in the mail. I liked that I would get emails about when the lesson plan books would be back in stock.
     I understand that when you walk into Staples, you get what you get. There is no customization. Product selection is limited. However, this year for my LP I ordered a customized cover...so why would I need to go back to her website to order my LP when I can walk into Staples and grab the plain generic one and walk out the someday?
     I know that this should not feel like a betrayal, it should not feel like a sale-out...but it does.

I LoVe Erin Condren products. However, I am going to have to do some research on the benefit of purchasing from her website versus going into the Big Box Store and picking up a generic planner. I mean, I have already purchased a customized LP cover.

All items pictured above were purchased by me on the Erin Condren website in 2015. I love everything that I purchased. I am not complaining about the quality of her product. I will be a returning customer.

My dislike is that her products are now available in a Box Store.

My dislike is that I no longer will have the need to anxiously wait for her products to become available on her website.

I JUST HAVE TO DRIVE TO THE STORE AND PICK THEM UP. UGH

I understand that in some regions her products have been in the store for sometime, please note that I live in Missouri and our store only recently started carrying her products.