hello beautiful Nicki here from crazy simple truth ministries and I'm so glad
you're here because today we are gonna make a planner from Dollar Tree supplies
uh well there's one thing from Target a dolla spot but it costs of one dollar so
I'm gonna turn this around and I'm gonna show you how to do it right now I'm so
excited about this project dollar it's a one inch binder you could
use any kind of binder you had our local thrift store sells a ton of binder so
yeah I got like a huge three-ring binder one time for my Bible study in prayer
binder and it was like two dollars or maybe even a dollar and at the store it
would have been like ten it's like a huge one so I mean there are a lot of
different options for ways you can do this but I just think Dollar Tree has
some really cute ones and I thought this one was kind of fun so I got that then I
got a pack I think this might be from Walmart I got it at back-to-school time
but this is just college ruled individual notebook paper which I love
and so I'm gonna use that in here for my planner pages and then this I got at
Target I don't stop it target very often at all I would love to be able to shop
at Target but pretty much we just go to Walmart for everything or Dollar Tree
but target has a really awesome area in the beginning called the dollar spot and
this was one dollar and right now if you go right now they have some planner
things for 2020 that are really inexpensive so I have not opened these
yet to see what they are but it looks like they're like post-it notes that
have them the whole month every month for the year so they're gonna be perfect
for this notebook do plus they have a cute little container there okay yep
exactly what I needed okay so I'm gonna use these on the front
of each page and then I'll just tuck in as many pages as I need in between so
let's see this is 150 sheets so if I did like 30 you wouldn't even need one full
page for each day you can even use a half a page for each day so this is more
than enough paper but what you could do is you could use some scrapbook paper or
some thicker paper and a big sheet and you could cut it to size the same size
as these okay and use your three hole puncher or
individual puncher and punch it and then stick your tab on it so you have a
little bit this is really thin paper but if you had some cardstock stick it on
there so that it's only gonna stick out right here
that's what's gonna stick out of the side of your notebook okay and then what
I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna use this notebook paper because I don't have any
scrapbook paper ready and cut so I'm just gonna make it super simple and
super inexpensive now if you do not have this that's ok have no fear all you need
is some post-it notes in fact these are from Dollar Tree and you would just wear
the sticky part is okay where the sticky part is you would take the other end and
you would write January and then you would stick this on the edge of your
paper like right here and then you're just gonna um put it so that when you
close your book all of those stick out so I mean it's as simple as that and
then you could also draw something like this on your page so let's go ahead and
open this I hope you can hear me fine I'm so excited about this so if you can
afford the furfle planner as a Christian I think this is a perfect planner for us
as Christians because there is each day has your priorities your plans your
praise and gratitude to has a scripture it has your prayer journals it has a
place you can take care of your physical health and a grocery list you could
write your Bible study whatever it is but we can do something similar to this
and cater it to what we need if you're not able to afford this if you are
please know that you are supporting a small Christian company which I think if
you are going to purchase a planner and you have the money to purchase a nice
planner that that's the best way to do it let's support our other brothers and
sisters in Christ so I will leave a link with a discount quote for this ok but
we're gonna make our own for those of you that cannot afford that I could not
afford that it was gifted to me which was wonderful
bye sweet Jennifer a prayerful planner okay so I'm just that piece is yucky
ah-ah they got ink on it see that I don't want
those sheets in there I'll just toss them because I don't I won't use them at
all I know waste of paper I know but it is
what it is how it is what it is okay I don't need that piece I could cut those
up for grocery lists maybe I will so we're gonna go ahead and stick this in
here like so I can get it get it ready I'm so excited about this so what I
would what I want to eventually do with this is show you guys how you could
organize your whole life in it and you obviously would need like a three-ring
binder for that you wouldn't be able to do it in this small of a binder but this
is just going to be a really simple Bible study and prayer planner so I
would take this I wish I did have some cardstock candy I might have a sheet
this is like a really thick piece of cardstock so you could do something like
this and punch them which I think would be the ideal thing to do I don't have a
three-ring puncher I have an individual puncher but I'm not gonna do that right
now I don't want to waste your time I want to make this fast and fun so you
could use a piece of cardstock but I'm just gonna use this so here's my January
and they're sticky isn't that fun that's so fun so we're gonna put it right there
oh it's so cute see it would look way better on a solid piece of paper but
like I said I'm using what I have so there's that then what you could do is
take a ruler and you could draw some boxes so this could just be your January
like your main category so you could put like notes for January let me find a
cute pen let's see these are my prayerful planner
pens but it's just a felt-tip pen you can get felt-tip pens anywhere these I
really like though so you could put January notes this is basically like a
bullet journal except you're using cheap lined notebook paper so January notes
and this is where you would put your special notes things you have to
remember birthdays you could do yeah you could do birthdays birthdays important
dates what else could you think of anything you can think of that you would
want to track at the beginning of January would be great in this you could
um just write out like random notes things at the bottom you could write
passwords anything like that that you might want to remember for the month of
January I guess you wouldn't really wife write passwords but you could do that in
the back that's something to actually I think when you do the notebook to
organize your whole life your whole Christian life I think that's a good
place where you could put your passwords but this kind of could be a notebook
Bible journal notebook and prayer journal notebook so when you got to your
individual page you would just put I think January first let me see Wednesday
so then you would go to the top here and we could use a fun color Wednesday
you're the little one talking out there Wednesday January first and then you
would just write down like you could make boxes if you wanted you could you
use post-it notes to make boxes so you could stick post-it notes like the
bigger sized ones too I don't have any you know that's gross um I don't have
any handy but you could do like boxes with your post-it notes
you could do special pieces of paper where you would glue this end on the
pages depending on how creative you wanted to get you could use these
awesome paint strips so these are great to pick up at Walmart or Lowe's or
wherever it is that you're at and you could use these for something so you
could line these here and then you could put like Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday ooh where do I get those that that has
exactly how many you need let me see I don't know where I got those at website
maybe from Lowe's but I'm not sure so anyway that was kind of cool so you
could do that so you could do your week at a glance yeah yeah yeah do that
you could do your week at a glance first so you'd use those week at a glance send
them Monday Tuesday Wednesday okay and then you'd go to your daily so you do
that so you're gonna have your January with your tag you're gonna have your
important things for January that you need to remember then you're gonna have
your week at a glance page and then you can go into your each day and on each
day you're gonna want to put top three these are if you watch my planner video
some of them top three things that you need to do today okay one two three
choose top three top three and these aren't things that you should do every
day these aren't things like go to work and said unless you have like a special
meeting or something special going on these are things that are different each
day like like they may not be different but they're not the use you know they're
not the upkeep things so you're gonna do your top three you're going to do your
time so let's say you may not have something all day long so let's say at
10:30 a.m. you have an appointment and you would put who that appointment is
for and who it's with I would suggest that you use different colors for this
so you could like I said get as creative or as simple as you want you could use
some washi tape which you can get really inexpensive on Amazon or through wish if
you want to wait 12 weeks for it to come so it doesn't take that long but washi
actually would be really cute and I don't know if you can buy bullet journal
paper for something like this but I think that
would be a great way to use a bullet journal paper in this and that way you
have the little boxes what bullet journal paper paper does is it gives you
it gives you not only their cross lines but it basically gives you the let down
line so you make you know that everything's gonna be nice and straight
so you could do like this
they're awesome by the way definitely want to go pick those up really really
cool and they're just for 2020 target dollar spot go to Dollar Tree check out
all of your cheap things that you can find cuz isn't it fun to like get
bargains and like I said even these free things if you have any little scraps of
paper and note cards you can use to decorate them like look I could even use
this cute little thing that came with this and glue it in here and use it as
like a dashboard which is where you would keep your post-it notes so once
these are gone I could stick different of post-it notes in here you take the
whole pad and stick it down and then close this up and then when you need a
post-it note for it you would just open it up and pull off the one that you need
so that's kind of a nifty idea you also could make a card that you could keep
your washi tape rolls on so you would make a little let me see if I have one
handy this one I made one day with a post-it note pad a post-it notes and so
I just wrapped around like three wraps of different washes and so you could
tuck this in something something else I have I will try to link this blog post
below I wrote an article and gave this free template for a tiny envelope and so
you cut out this template you print it off cut it out take a piece of paper and
cut out the entire thing and then these are your fold lines and you're gonna end
up with a tiny little envelope you can kind of see what its gonna look like
here like this and then you would glue the envelope I don't like to bend my
template but but I will to show you what I'm talking about
you would glue the envelope together so just um just right just barely right
here so you just put a little bit of glue here and a little bit of glue here
because you want to make sure it opens good and then I wouldn't I would put
glue here back here but not up here and I would glue this inside here and then I
would use this you could also took washy down in you could tuck stickers down in
these I bought at Dollar Tree a while back they have a lot of planets planner
stickers off and on and so you just have to check for those and then you could
tuck those right in here like this and isn't that cute see that would be really
really cute tuck your little washy thing in there and have everything you need
right here so they would call this a dashboard and then you would have your
pages and you just go through and set it up the way that you want as creative as
you want as simple as you want but the point is you have everything right here
that you need and you can study your Bible this way so you would then take
one one section of this and write your prayer for the day you could write your
scripture for the day you could also write what you learned in the Bible for
the day on top of your top three priorities your appointments and then if
you wanted to track anything in your health or let's say you're trying to
walk each day or you're trying to keep track of your sleep you could also do
that on this same page so this is this one page would give you a ton of space
to do that now this cheat paper you can see through
so you would want to get some nicer quality paper if you could afford it or
use a pencil you can use a pencil I use pencils a lot in my planners because I
erase things and so you don't have to use the thicker pens that show through
if you don't want to another idea that you could have instead of using washi
tape is I don't have a ruler that doesn't bend
but this is another idea that you could use you could use cheap highlighters and
you could use a ruler and line it up and then you would just see how I'm using
the chiseled tip you would use your chisel tip and you're gonna make a box I
guess I'll just make it this way you're gonna make a box that you can write
something and so let's say in this box you're going to put your the Bible Bible
study what what verses you want to read and study in the Bible this day so you
will take that like that and then look it isn't that cute so you could make all
kinds of different shaped boxes in that way so I could do a yellow box here I
could do a blue box here and then this could be like a really big purple box
down here so make it fit you make it fit you take a look go on Pinterest and and
or just go on google and type in planners and then flip through the
images and find what works for you because different planners have
different ideas in them in different layouts and different ways that you can
use them so as a Christian if you're gonna make your own planner I really
really encourage you to make sure that prayer and Bible study are the priority
of your Christian planner and just make that really simply that doesn't mean
that you can't go into a huge Bible study sometime during the week and do it
in a different book or a different journal or however it is that you do
your Bible study but this would just be a daily thing a daily reminder to keep
your focus on Christ where it needs to be and so I hope this was an
encouragement to you what do you think it's doable right I mean totally doable
and you could totally make it creative as creative as you want or as simple as
you want and definitely can use it to organize other things in your life I'm
so excited about it I hope you liked it as much as I did please give this video
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