I’m also not a busy person, retired, no children to run to lessons, birthday parties, etc. I enjoy planning, and I use them to force myself to do something. If my planner looks a little sad with the empty spaces, I find something to do. A new coffee shop, a used bookstore, Anything that gets me out of the house for a bit. It’s also a way to keep my declutterring projects moving along. I watch a lot of YT planners, but you’re the one who encourages me to be more creative in my planner. I don’t think I would have used stickers without your videos.
I loved your creative journal and I follow you because I am inspired by them. I was very sorry that you stopped using it in July. You are the first person who inspired me to get into the Happy Planner and can’t get into all these other types of planners. I know that you have had some hard knocks in life but I am so inspired by your bravery and resilience. ❤
I'm sorry I abandoned it, but I really hope to make my big pretty similar, and the addition of the junk journal may help me satisfy my need for a separate creative journal. We'll see! I may miss it so much that I pick it back up mid year. Thanks for the kind words!
I lived your creative Journaling, it inspired me to start one. Planning is great, but I just don't really have a need for a 'planner' so creative Journaling was just what I needed.
I have been putting my planner and journal together for a couple of years now, and I love it. Somedays, if I'm sick or don't have much to say, I'll expound on some great thought or Bible verse that encourages my soul. I am, however, boring with putting my planner at the top, so I look forward to your ideas. I'm a private music teacher, and my daughter doesn't drive because of various disabilities so I have a schedule of driving her to work and then my teaching schedule and etc. So, keeping things at the top directs my eye. My daughter keeps complimenting me on my spreads, so I must be doing something right. Hee, hee. I really enjoy your creativity and how you share with the world. Blessings, Bryn
I'm so glad you're returning to the Big because I know it brings you joy! And I'm glad you're not restricting your creativity by having certain parts for journal and certain parts for planning. Let your creativity flow. You thrive most when there's no "have to's!"!!!
Yay so glad you went back to the big and your planning and journaling both in it. Same, no kids at home and we’re retired so not a lot to write so I like to journal more than plan. I went to the big few years back because of you so I’m so happy to see you go back. You’ll have lots to write about with new grand babies. I journal a lot of what my great grandkids say and do because I know their parents don’t so in years to come they can look back at my planner and remember what the babes said or did.
OMG my heart skipped a beat when you said you are combining your creative journal and planner and then also a junk journal. This is so what I want to do and cannot wait to see how it goes. Like yourself I have fell off using planners and have had a lot of life issues and also chronic pain and your video has inspired me to try again with you. All the best to you and the family for the New Year and hope it is much happier for you all especially with the new additions! Happy New Year to Bumble too my dog Luna loves hearing him in the background as do I. 🐶 🦴 ❤
Loved seeing your 2025 overview! You're the reason why I got into planning and journaling in January 2022.... I watched your "New to Happy Planner? Watch This!" video during a time when I felt overwhelmed. Since then, I've watched so many of your videos and subscribe to your Patreon. Now that I've started my own little channel, I just wanted to say "Thank you!" You're truly an inspiration, Mary Ellen. Looking forward to watching your journey in planning in 2025 and in the years to come!
Hello Mary Ellen! It has been quite a while since I have watched your videos. I’m still a Patreon, but I’m no longer using a Happy Planner. Having said that, I still love watching you plan in their large planner. Girl, you got me good with the Daily Hemlock planner. I used your link and ordered this monster. I haven’t even had coffee yet! I’m sure I’ll be bugging you regularly this year. Take care and keep on planning!
I use a Big Happy Planner. I'm an administrator in a big high school, and I am busy. However, I use my planner for work and journaling. I've done it for years, and I love it. I am too busy to keep up with multiple planners. I'm excited to see what you do.
So happy you put this video out. I have been eagerly been waiting for you to drop your line up video. Your videos are what started my love of planners almost 8 years ago now!
I am so excited to see what junk journal ideas you come up with. The junk journal videos you have made in the past are some of my favorite. If it becomes one you dont use as often as you hoped you can always rename it an art journal so it not as restricted to what you feel should be in it.
I’m staying in a big next year, I love to decorate that size and I write big, combining my catch all and health & wellness. My classic is for bills, house projects and trying to de-clutter my home with the journal in the back. The disc bound system is so perfect for all this. I have a new junk/creative journaling book too like yours that I’m very excited to use for many of the same things. Thank you for sharing. 💜💜
I’m excited to see you junk journal! I love using my Archer & Olive journals to sticker, junk journal, goal plan and memory keep. I just use the stationary, stickers and ephemera that makes me happy!
Love my Big Happy planner too, so glad to see you back in it.. So many fun, exciting stuff coming, can't wait to see all your amazing creations come to life in 2025..
This is the first time in years I am going from big to classic. I am also going to try to use one planner for everything and add printables for work, meal planning, and journaling. 🤞🏽🤞🏽 I look forward to seeing how you use your planners & hope to get ideas from you to improve upon mine.
A friend introduced me to happy planners i guess two years ago and now I'm a little obsessed 😅 then i was looking for some inspiration what to do with it and found you. You make this look so easy and fun and i enjoy your content a lot even though I'm not at keeping up with it 😅 i started with a classic planner this year and what can i say i did it for a while and then i was just overwhelmed and couldn't handle the layout i choosed... Now for 2025 i bought a skinny mini (cause the mini dashboard that I wanted was sold out...) and i love it and want to use it so bad xD i can't wait. It's so much better for me to handle and decorate and I'm so in love with the tiny stickers for it :3 i hope that I'm sticking to it this time but it seems so at the moment 😊 I'm looking forward to your videos in 2025 and the inspiration that you'll give us with it. Thank you so much for being you, thank you so much for making me loose my pressure to do this a certain way without allowing me to change it. Thanks for everything ❤ i wish us all a great 2025 ❤
I hope you don't mind me sharing but I pretty much plan and journal in my weekly vertical. My brain cannot deal with more than one planner. I realized I loved having complete context to my notes about my life when it is embedded in the weekly. When I need more room to express myself for that week, I add in either a half page or a full page and that stays there for that week forever. Looking forward to your setup video whenever it arrives.
When I was younger journaling was a breeze because life seemed more dramatic and intense. As I got older I journaled less to the point where I would go months without picking up a pen. When I did I coul barely fill half a page. I've been following you from the beginning and have seen how your planning style has changed. I noticed awhile ago you would do a little journaling in you Big HP catchall. It wasn't every day. Just when something was good, bad, or ok. It would be a drawing, sticker, or words in a different font. I tried it, fell in love, and have been doing it ever since. Thank you beautiful lady!🤗💕
You’ve inspired me to buy my first happy planner and stickers, your spreads are always so beautiful. I’ve been binge watching your videos and cannot wait for my planner to arrive so I can have a go myself! Thank you 😊 x
I commend you for trying to do a planner that is book bound. I have adhd as well and I just cannot stick to a "bookbound" planner. I change my mind too much lol, which is why I have to have a happy planner. You had a lot of stuff hit you hard this past year so its understandable that you fell off. And that is ok, get back up and start again. It is a new year and that is probably why it feels so exciting for you. I was in a dashboard this year and I have switched back to a vertical. I am looking forward to this next year with you. You are a true inspiration.
I switched from a classic to a big mid year for the same reason. I couldn’t keep up with journaling and planning when they were in separate books. But a Big give me breathing room to decorate and plan and have just enough space to journal a bit. I love it! I’m tempted by the next shiny “thing” but for 2025 I’ll commit to the Big.
Thanks for sharing Mary Ellen! So happy you are going back to the BIG Happy Planner! You are the reason I started using a BIG Happy Planner almost 5 years ago!!! Looking forward to all of your videos!! Hope you have a Happy and Blessed New Year! 🎉🍾🥂
I am so excited big and a junk journal no pressure or anything but I want to play with junk journal I want to play along no pressure just inspo let’s go. Have fun do you show it off not for teaching just inspiring. And some can be private and you decide to share later without a big explanation! We’re here for it all
I love that you are going back to big! You will fill it up with the new grandkids and all the activities plus your house projects. I’m so happy. Can’t wait to get inspired by some big layouts!! I am still doing big planner but have nothing really to put in it.
Love it! ❤❤❤❤ I liked to add dot grid pages between my (I used horizontal) weeks for journaling. With happy planner, I was able to use as few or as many pages I needed between the weeks. Like I’d have notes to Tuesday on the left, two dot pages, and then the rest of the week on the right. It worked for a bit until I moved out of it.
Love your planner line ups every year and am glad you’re going back to your big happy planner for 2025. I’m thinking about doing something similar to what you’re doing with a junk journal for 2025 so looking forward to seeing your take on them
I moved 3 years a go from the classic to the Big vertical Happy Planner. This year I'm moving back to a classic this year. But I plan to add extra pages whenever I wish. And I may just add decorative pages when I feel like it. I love designing the page as much as I love journaling. Changing it up. Now to see which planner works best for me.
Hey Mary Ellen! The way you described your junk journal reminded me of the "smash journal", have you heard of it? It's basically the same thing with a different name, but there is a notebook brand and probably even more videos out there for you to watch if you need inspiration. Or Pinterest, I get lost there often 😂. I love all kinds of journaling too, and I think you're going to have a great time with this one. Happy New Year, and I hope 2025 treats us all a little better (this year was a bit on the tough side)!
I just received my 1st H&O B5 (minimalist, which is fine but a chose more for the size) and absolutely LOVE IT. Aesthetically it is hands down the most beautiful planner I’ve ever used. Paper quality is amazing and the slightly muted tones are gorgeous. Functionally it is perfect for my needs. Ended up a descent price with Amanda’s Favorites’s discount code.
So funny, I just received my first H&O planner, also nimbus color. The paper quality, binding, and muted aesthetics make it absolutely luxurious. Now that I have it I’m shocked that it wasn’t more expensive. I was ecstatic to see the B5 minimalist. I need just that little bit bigger space and vertical is the only thing my brain can successfully navigate. I’ve always had planners with ALL the goal setting/planning like PowerSheets and Passion Planner, but once I fill them out, I don’t actually end up using them. The minimalist is perfect- still has quarterly and yearly overviews in front and 20 blank sheets in back that I’ll use for trip/holiday/special event planning. They’ve still got quite a selection available and a nice sale going.
Yay! We'll have matching Big Happy Planners this year. I love seeing all of your spreads. I use my planner as both a planner and journal on the same spread to fill in the Big layout. I'm not very busy either and have a separate planner and journal is too much work for me. Hope you had a nice holiday.
I'm going back to a big HP as well. I missed it in 2024. With my health issues and multiple hospital stays, I felt like the Big was too much for me to seal with. I was looking through my planners for next year and found that I'm missing a vertical. Hopefully, Michael's has something that I will love. Looking forward to seeing you create a Junk Journal. I've been wanting to do one for several years, but just didn't know where to begin. Happy New Year to you, Bumble, and your family.❤😊
@PlanningwithBumble thank you. It's improved since surgery. Won't know until January if I need to continue chemo. This last 1% of the cancer is on my last nerve. Hope you have a fabulous new year.❤️😀
I took a break from watching to make dinner and such but now sitting down to finish watching. I am always inspired by what you do. I’ve watched your videos for a few years now and I always loved how you continue to try new things and new brands. It helps me to figure out how to make my planners even more functional and decorative. Thank you for everything MaryEllen ☺️
I’m back!!! I wandered off a while ago after following you first thing everyday from day one. Don’t know why?! Anyway, caught your unveiling of 2025 planners, and I’m back! I use a classic with checklist layout, and love it. Top row for daily focus, checklist for daily to-do, bottom row for weekly lists- shopping, chores, etc. Big column in left for weekly menu and below for weekly focus. Very pragmatic, not much room for decorating, but it works for me. My creative outlet tends toward collage, so your junk journal plans are intriguing to me. So Hi! Ellen in MN
I started using my first vertical happy planner in July. After 6 months I can honestly say I love it. I use it more for decorating and having a creative outlet than real planning. I do use it for planning but I do more back planning. It's so fun to create spreads and write what is going on.
I really enjoyed seeing the flip through of your 2024 journals. I am really inspired by your decorating abilities. Your spreads are so beautiful. I am anxious to see junk journaling. I haven’t gotten into that; even though I find it interesting. I’m anxious to see how your 2025 lineup works out. You are my favorite planner content creator.
Until I saw your video, I had no idea what planner I was going to use. Then I watched your video and you said "I'm doing what makes me happy". Thank you for the great advice; I'm going to do the same. I bought the Hemlock and Oak daily planner for my personal growth - - I love the Makse Life System but it is too big for me - - and I'm going back to the Classic Happy Planner for my catch all.
Excited to follow your new Junk Journal Journey! I love fresh content from people that I have followed for a while and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with yours! ENJOY!
Happy you are returning to the Big as I always enjoy seeing you decorate that as you clearly love it. I only managed to stay truly consistent with the Happy Planner teacher layout (adapted) this year so am sticking with that, a skinny mini and for the last time I’m going to try with a creative journal as I love decorating it but fail to keep up with writing in it and empty pages make me 😞 I’m also using bound journals this year so I’m looking forward to that. Excited to see you use your new planners this year!
I'm using a Plum Paper planner but am always open to seeing/trying others. I prefer spiral bound to disc, so that does reduce the choices a bit. I also might try a bullet journal again this year.
Love your line up Mary Ellen! I love watching your creativity! Looking forward to seeing hear you do with the junk journal as I have been curious to try. I love that you are going to try all kinds of styles. Happy new year and wishing you all the best in the coming year! ❤🎉
Dang, wish that daily planner would have those reflection pages. I'm a therapist and this would be ideal for client notes within the planner. And those front pages are basically therapy. I mean the what would tomorrow look like question is the million dollar question in therapy, boo. Im finally (FINALLY) out of the happy planner i bought. I did passion planner for 7 years and moved over to that and its been literal he-double-hockey-sticks. But I don't like the mid year ones so I stuck it out, painfully 😂. But I am back in a passion planner and couldn't be happier for it to fit my needs.
I’m so excited about the junk journal! I can’t wait to see what you do! I have been gathering “junk” to start but am scared! You are giving me courage to start too!
I love the reading journal. Can’t wait to see your new content this year. P.s. The ‘book bound’ junk journal is going to get very junky. After you add concert ticket stubs, airline tickets, restaurant menus, recipes, photos, …, it will be hard to keep closed. 😉
I have one of those "junk journals" too...I call it "Musings"...it includes all the things you mentioned as well as quotes that resonate with me. I guess it's like a commonplace book. ❤
Have you seen ‘Amy Plans Things’…think you’d enjoy her. She does a lot of what you’re talking about. Liking all you’re talking about in this v. Happy 2025! I’ll be watching!! ❤
Yay!! Glad to see some non HP. I am also using some bound planners: Hemlock and Oak horizontal, soul care planner and clever fox biweekly budget. In 2025 I would love to see some plan with me videos for some of the other planners and journals
Wow so glad I found you! I’m not artistic in any way shape or form and now want to know more. I’m the same age, live alone, children grown , live in Australia. I have newbie questions, I hope that’s ok. - How do you read so many books? I fall asleep reading them - Can you show your planner stash, where do you get everything?
Welcome! At least half of these are audio books. I listen when I clean, walk the dog, in the car, etc. A lot of the physical books are read on vacation, or while I’m eating my meals
Found this year that I’m a horizontal planner. I’ve never used a planner for the entire year I e always planner hopped all year. Until this year I went with 22 Tomoe river paper planners and I’m going to stay with thease planners.
The quarterly in the work planner could maybe be used for revenue tracking for taxes? Not sure how well it would work but I believe they're due quarterly so maybe that could be useful.
Hi, I am a first time commenter and recent sub. I subscribed because we are about the same age and I relate to much of what you say. I have a humble suggestion for time blocking. Not knowing how you manage your time, may I suggest that you block off your breaks. Include a walk and a proper meal. I have gotten much better at making time to enjoy an actual lunch break by using the vertical time blocking.
I am curious what a bound planner looks like at the end of the year after filling it with stickers and washi? I am thinking that it won't really close flat but be fanned out.
I suffer from chronic pain and I decided this year I want to track how I feel everyday . I’m using a mini notebook and keeping it simple where I can jot down everyday how I feel and if I made any changes that might affect how I feel.
Could I get some of your out dated and left over happy planner stash?.. im flat broke and need to journal some scripture and don't know what to try for a little peace. ?
I have four planners for next year but they are all Happy Planner. I like disc bound planners. Don't like the bound kind. Pretty journals, just not my style.
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I’m also not a busy person, retired, no children to run to lessons, birthday parties, etc. I enjoy planning, and I use them to force myself to do something. If my planner looks a little sad with the empty spaces, I find something to do. A new coffee shop, a used bookstore, Anything that gets me out of the house for a bit. It’s also a way to keep my declutterring projects moving along. I watch a lot of YT planners, but you’re the one who encourages me to be more creative in my planner. I don’t think I would have used stickers without your videos.
I loved your creative journal and I follow you because I am inspired by them. I was very sorry that you stopped using it in July. You are the first person who inspired me to get into the Happy Planner and can’t get into all these other types of planners. I know that you have had some hard knocks in life but I am so inspired by your bravery and resilience. ❤
I'm sorry I abandoned it, but I really hope to make my big pretty similar, and the addition of the junk journal may help me satisfy my need for a separate creative journal. We'll see! I may miss it so much that I pick it back up mid year. Thanks for the kind words!
I lived your creative Journaling, it inspired me to start one. Planning is great, but I just don't really have a need for a 'planner' so creative Journaling was just what I needed.
How do you not have 100k yet?! Your content is gold. I love watching your videos and they calm me down when Im having an anxious day.
Ahh, that's really nice of you to say! I'm working on it haha
Although you said you didn't like your 2024 items, you were still created some beautiful spreads. Thank you for sharing and being transparent
I have been putting my planner and journal together for a couple of years now, and I love it. Somedays, if I'm sick or don't have much to say, I'll expound on some great thought or Bible verse that encourages my soul. I am, however, boring with putting my planner at the top, so I look forward to your ideas. I'm a private music teacher, and my daughter doesn't drive because of various disabilities so I have a schedule of driving her to work and then my teaching schedule and etc. So, keeping things at the top directs my eye. My daughter keeps complimenting me on my spreads, so I must be doing something right. Hee, hee. I really enjoy your creativity and how you share with the world. Blessings, Bryn
I'm so glad you're returning to the Big because I know it brings you joy! And I'm glad you're not restricting your creativity by having certain parts for journal and certain parts for planning. Let your creativity flow. You thrive most when there's no "have to's!"!!!
Yay so glad you went back to the big and your planning and journaling both in it. Same, no kids at home and we’re retired so not a lot to write so I like to journal more than plan. I went to the big few years back because of you so I’m so happy to see you go back. You’ll have lots to write about with new grand babies. I journal a lot of what my great grandkids say and do because I know their parents don’t so in years to come they can look back at my planner and remember what the babes said or did.
OMG my heart skipped a beat when you said you are combining your creative journal and planner and then also a junk journal. This is so what I want to do and cannot wait to see how it goes.
Like yourself I have fell off using planners and have had a lot of life issues and also chronic pain and your video has inspired me to try again with you.
All the best to you and the family for the New Year and hope it is much happier for you all especially with the new additions!
Happy New Year to Bumble too my dog Luna loves hearing him in the background as do I. 🐶 🦴 ❤
Loved seeing your 2025 overview! You're the reason why I got into planning and journaling in January 2022.... I watched your "New to Happy Planner? Watch This!" video during a time when I felt overwhelmed. Since then, I've watched so many of your videos and subscribe to your Patreon. Now that I've started my own little channel, I just wanted to say "Thank you!" You're truly an inspiration, Mary Ellen. Looking forward to watching your journey in planning in 2025 and in the years to come!
Thank YOU! I’m so glad you enjoy my content!
Hello Mary Ellen! It has been quite a while since I have watched your videos. I’m still a Patreon, but I’m no longer using a Happy Planner. Having said that, I still love watching you plan in their large planner.
Girl, you got me good with the Daily Hemlock planner. I used your link and ordered this monster. I haven’t even had coffee yet! I’m sure I’ll be bugging you regularly this year. Take care and keep on planning!
😆 thanks for using my link. Can’t wait to hear how you like it! It IS a monster but there’s just something about a huge planner that is like a book!
I use a Big Happy Planner. I'm an administrator in a big high school, and I am busy. However, I use my planner for work and journaling. I've done it for years, and I love it. I am too busy to keep up with multiple planners. I'm excited to see what you do.
So happy you put this video out. I have been eagerly been waiting for you to drop your line up video. Your videos are what started my love of planners almost 8 years ago now!
I am so excited to see what junk journal ideas you come up with. The junk journal videos you have made in the past are some of my favorite. If it becomes one you dont use as often as you hoped you can always rename it an art journal so it not as restricted to what you feel should be in it.
I’m staying in a big next year, I love to decorate that size and I write big, combining my catch all and health & wellness. My classic is for bills, house projects and trying to de-clutter my home with the journal in the back. The disc bound system is so perfect for all this. I have a new junk/creative journaling book too like yours that I’m very excited to use for many of the same things. Thank you for sharing. 💜💜
Thank you for going back the the big planner 🥰
I’m excited to see you junk journal! I love using my Archer & Olive journals to sticker, junk journal, goal plan and memory keep. I just use the stationary, stickers and ephemera that makes me happy!
Love my Big Happy planner too, so glad to see you back in it.. So many fun, exciting stuff coming, can't wait to see all your amazing creations come to life in 2025..
Love ❤your journaling style, honesty, and humble reviews. You’re inspiring! Also, I love H&O too! Great choice.😊
This is the first time in years I am going from big to classic. I am also going to try to use one planner for everything and add printables for work, meal planning, and journaling. 🤞🏽🤞🏽
I look forward to seeing how you use your planners & hope to get ideas from you to improve upon mine.
A friend introduced me to happy planners i guess two years ago and now I'm a little obsessed 😅 then i was looking for some inspiration what to do with it and found you. You make this look so easy and fun and i enjoy your content a lot even though I'm not at keeping up with it 😅 i started with a classic planner this year and what can i say i did it for a while and then i was just overwhelmed and couldn't handle the layout i choosed... Now for 2025 i bought a skinny mini (cause the mini dashboard that I wanted was sold out...) and i love it and want to use it so bad xD i can't wait. It's so much better for me to handle and decorate and I'm so in love with the tiny stickers for it :3 i hope that I'm sticking to it this time but it seems so at the moment 😊 I'm looking forward to your videos in 2025 and the inspiration that you'll give us with it. Thank you so much for being you, thank you so much for making me loose my pressure to do this a certain way without allowing me to change it. Thanks for everything ❤ i wish us all a great 2025 ❤
I hope you don't mind me sharing but I pretty much plan and journal in my weekly vertical. My brain cannot deal with more than one planner. I realized I loved having complete context to my notes about my life when it is embedded in the weekly. When I need more room to express myself for that week, I add in either a half page or a full page and that stays there for that week forever. Looking forward to your setup video whenever it arrives.
When I was younger journaling was a breeze because life seemed more dramatic and intense. As I got older I journaled less to the point where I would go months without picking up a pen. When I did I coul barely fill half a page.
I've been following you from the beginning and have seen how your planning style has changed. I noticed awhile ago you would do a little journaling in you Big HP catchall. It wasn't every day. Just when something was good, bad, or ok. It would be a drawing, sticker, or words in a different font. I tried it, fell in love, and have been doing it ever since.
Thank you beautiful lady!🤗💕
You’ve inspired me to buy my first happy planner and stickers, your spreads are always so beautiful. I’ve been binge watching your videos and cannot wait for my planner to arrive so I can have a go myself! Thank you 😊 x
I commend you for trying to do a planner that is book bound. I have adhd as well and I just cannot stick to a "bookbound" planner. I change my mind too much lol, which is why I have to have a happy planner. You had a lot of stuff hit you hard this past year so its understandable that you fell off. And that is ok, get back up and start again. It is a new year and that is probably why it feels so exciting for you. I was in a dashboard this year and I have switched back to a vertical. I am looking forward to this next year with you. You are a true inspiration.
I switched from a classic to a big mid year for the same reason. I couldn’t keep up with journaling and planning when they were in separate books. But a Big give me breathing room to decorate and plan and have just enough space to journal a bit. I love it! I’m tempted by the next shiny “thing” but for 2025 I’ll commit to the Big.
Your planners are so beautiful! I love how you used them last year.
Thanks for sharing Mary Ellen! So happy you are going back to the BIG Happy Planner! You are the reason I started using a BIG Happy Planner almost 5 years ago!!! Looking forward to all of your videos!! Hope you have a Happy and Blessed New Year! 🎉🍾🥂
I am so excited big and a junk journal no pressure or anything but I want to play with junk journal I want to play along no pressure just inspo let’s go. Have fun do you show it off not for teaching just inspiring. And some can be private and you decide to share later without a big explanation! We’re here for it all
I got so excited about the new Archer & Olive release that I ordered a few yesterday. I remembered to come here and use your code.
Thank you!! I have been doing a junk journal and didn’t realize it! Great video!
I love that you are going back to big! You will fill it up with the new grandkids and all the activities plus your house projects. I’m so happy. Can’t wait to get inspired by some big layouts!! I am still doing big planner but have nothing really to put in it.
Love it! ❤❤❤❤
I liked to add dot grid pages between my (I used horizontal) weeks for journaling. With happy planner, I was able to use as few or as many pages I needed between the weeks. Like I’d have notes to Tuesday on the left, two dot pages, and then the rest of the week on the right. It worked for a bit until I moved out of it.
Great choices MaryEllen. Happy New Year
I love that you are back in a big!!! This warms my heart. ❤❤❤ great choices. I can’t wait to see more.
Love your planner line ups every year and am glad you’re going back to your big happy planner for 2025.
I’m thinking about doing something similar to what you’re doing with a junk journal for 2025 so looking forward to seeing your take on them
I moved 3 years a go from the classic to the Big vertical Happy Planner. This year I'm moving back to a classic this year. But I plan to add extra pages whenever I wish. And I may just add decorative pages when I feel like it. I love designing the page as much as I love journaling. Changing it up. Now to see which planner works best for me.
Hey Mary Ellen! The way you described your junk journal reminded me of the "smash journal", have you heard of it? It's basically the same thing with a different name, but there is a notebook brand and probably even more videos out there for you to watch if you need inspiration. Or Pinterest, I get lost there often 😂. I love all kinds of journaling too, and I think you're going to have a great time with this one.
Happy New Year, and I hope 2025 treats us all a little better (this year was a bit on the tough side)!
I'm glad you are going back. I love the big. I write big so I like the big.
It’s nice having extra space!
I like the 2025 big happy planner cover. Its really pretty
That Hemlock and Oak horizontal is like a giant Hobonichi weeks. Want it!
I just received my 1st H&O B5 (minimalist, which is fine but a chose more for the size) and absolutely LOVE IT. Aesthetically it is hands down the most beautiful planner I’ve ever used. Paper quality is amazing and the slightly muted tones are gorgeous. Functionally it is perfect for my needs. Ended up a descent price with Amanda’s Favorites’s discount code.
So funny, I just received my first H&O planner, also nimbus color. The paper quality, binding, and muted aesthetics make it absolutely luxurious. Now that I have it I’m shocked that it wasn’t more expensive. I was ecstatic to see the B5 minimalist. I need just that little bit bigger space and vertical is the only thing my brain can successfully navigate. I’ve always had planners with ALL the goal setting/planning like PowerSheets and Passion Planner, but once I fill them out, I don’t actually end up using them. The minimalist is perfect- still has quarterly and yearly overviews in front and 20 blank sheets in back that I’ll use for trip/holiday/special event planning. They’ve still got quite a selection available and a nice sale going.
Yay! We'll have matching Big Happy Planners this year. I love seeing all of your spreads. I use my planner as both a planner and journal on the same spread to fill in the Big layout. I'm not very busy either and have a separate planner and journal is too much work for me. Hope you had a nice holiday.
I'm going back to a big HP as well. I missed it in 2024. With my health issues and multiple hospital stays, I felt like the Big was too much for me to seal with. I was looking through my planners for next year and found that I'm missing a vertical. Hopefully, Michael's has something that I will love.
Looking forward to seeing you create a Junk Journal. I've been wanting to do one for several years, but just didn't know where to begin. Happy New Year to you, Bumble, and your family.❤😊
I don’t know where to start either 😆
I hope your health has improved!
@PlanningwithBumble thank you. It's improved since surgery. Won't know until January if I need to continue chemo. This last 1% of the cancer is on my last nerve. Hope you have a fabulous new year.❤️😀
@PlanningwithBumble I'm sure we can figure it out at some point. Hopefully, sooner rather than later.🤔😀
Your going Big again... Good for you! I know it's what makes you happy! Great Line-up. Looking forward to videos in 2025. Hugs❤
I took a break from watching to make dinner and such but now sitting down to finish watching. I am always inspired by what you do. I’ve watched your videos for a few years now and I always loved how you continue to try new things and new brands. It helps me to figure out how to make my planners even more functional and decorative. Thank you for everything MaryEllen ☺️
Yay for the BIG!🎉 This is exactly what I hoped you would do! ❤ Can't wait!
I knew a lot of you would be excited lol
I’m back!!! I wandered off a while ago after following you first thing everyday from day one. Don’t know why?! Anyway, caught your unveiling of 2025 planners, and I’m back! I use a classic with checklist layout, and love it. Top row for daily focus, checklist for daily to-do, bottom row for weekly lists- shopping, chores, etc. Big column in left for weekly menu and below for weekly focus. Very pragmatic, not much room for decorating, but it works for me. My creative outlet tends toward collage, so your junk journal plans are intriguing to me. So Hi! Ellen in MN
I really like your setup. Hemlock and Oak looks like what I want to start the year with also. Great video!
I love decorating a Big Happy Planner. It’s the planner my mom uses and I decorate it for her 😊
I started using my first vertical happy planner in July. After 6 months I can honestly say I love it. I use it more for decorating and having a creative outlet than real planning. I do use it for planning but I do more back planning. It's so fun to create spreads and write what is going on.
I really enjoyed seeing the flip through of your 2024 journals. I am really inspired by your decorating abilities. Your spreads are so beautiful. I am anxious to see junk journaling. I haven’t gotten into that; even though I find it interesting. I’m anxious to see how your 2025 lineup works out. You are my favorite planner content creator.
Until I saw your video, I had no idea what planner I was going to use. Then I watched your video and you said "I'm doing what makes me happy". Thank you for the great advice; I'm going to do the same. I bought the Hemlock and Oak daily planner for my personal growth - - I love the Makse Life System but it is too big for me - - and I'm going back to the Classic Happy Planner for my catch all.
That’s awesome! It’s all about finding what works for you.
Honestly i have 3 planners. Besides my work planner, i barely write in them. Lol. I just like decorating them. No pressure!
Makes sense to combine journals. I keep everything in a mini dashboard except a written, non decorated journal.
Excited to follow your new Junk Journal Journey! I love fresh content from people that I have followed for a while and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with yours! ENJOY!
Happy you are returning to the Big as I always enjoy seeing you decorate that as you clearly love it. I only managed to stay truly consistent with the Happy Planner teacher layout (adapted) this year so am sticking with that, a skinny mini and for the last time I’m going to try with a creative journal as I love decorating it but fail to keep up with writing in it and empty pages make me 😞 I’m also using bound journals this year so I’m looking forward to that. Excited to see you use your new planners this year!
I'm using a Plum Paper planner but am always open to seeing/trying others. I prefer spiral bound to disc, so that does reduce the choices a bit. I also might try a bullet journal again this year.
Love your line up Mary Ellen! I love watching your creativity! Looking forward to seeing hear you do with the junk journal as I have been curious to try. I love that you are going to try all kinds of styles. Happy new year and wishing you all the best in the coming year! ❤🎉
Dang, wish that daily planner would have those reflection pages. I'm a therapist and this would be ideal for client notes within the planner. And those front pages are basically therapy. I mean the what would tomorrow look like question is the million dollar question in therapy, boo.
Im finally (FINALLY) out of the happy planner i bought. I did passion planner for 7 years and moved over to that and its been literal he-double-hockey-sticks. But I don't like the mid year ones so I stuck it out, painfully 😂. But I am back in a passion planner and couldn't be happier for it to fit my needs.
I’m so excited about the junk journal! I can’t wait to see what you do! I have been gathering “junk” to start but am scared! You are giving me courage to start too!
I’m scared too haha! And I haven’t even collected any junk yet. May have to start with store bought stuff.
Team Big!
I love the reading journal. Can’t wait to see your new content this year. P.s. The ‘book bound’ junk journal is going to get very junky. After you add concert ticket stubs, airline tickets, restaurant menus, recipes, photos, …, it will be hard to keep closed. 😉
Plan on It did a great dot grid junk journal with quotes and lists! Love that idea for creative outlet
I have one of those "junk journals" too...I call it "Musings"...it includes all the things you mentioned as well as quotes that resonate with me. I guess it's like a commonplace book. ❤
I'm excited you're doing junk journaling. ❤
Me too! It’s daunting though sort of!
Have you seen ‘Amy Plans Things’…think you’d enjoy her. She does a lot of what you’re talking about. Liking all you’re talking about in this v. Happy 2025! I’ll be watching!! ❤
Yay!! Glad to see some non HP. I am also using some bound planners: Hemlock and Oak horizontal, soul care planner and clever fox biweekly budget. In 2025 I would love to see some plan with me videos for some of the other planners and journals
Hi! Thank you for all the content this year❤ ✨
I’ll be interested in seeing the traditional junk journaling. I don’t have much going on in my life, so, I combine things in one planner.
Can’t wait to see what you do in 2025.
LOVE your choices! 😊
Been waiting for this. I’m using 22 of them this year. Video on my channel
Right on time for me.
Wow so glad I found you!
I’m not artistic in any way shape or form and now want to know more.
I’m the same age, live alone, children grown , live in Australia.
I have newbie questions, I hope that’s ok.
- How do you read so many books? I fall asleep reading them
- Can you show your planner stash, where do you get everything?
Welcome! At least half of these are audio books. I listen when I clean, walk the dog, in the car, etc. A lot of the physical books are read on vacation, or while I’m eating my meals
As far as my planner stash, still waiting for my room to be more organized! I do have older videos of my previous craft room setup and tour though!
Found this year that I’m a horizontal planner. I’ve never used a planner for the entire year I e always planner hopped all year. Until this year I went with 22 Tomoe river paper planners and I’m going to stay with thease planners.
The quarterly in the work planner could maybe be used for revenue tracking for taxes? Not sure how well it would work but I believe they're due quarterly so maybe that could be useful.
You can francanplan . Change the dash board 😊
Hi, I am a first time commenter and recent sub. I subscribed because we are about the same age and I relate to much of what you say.
I have a humble suggestion for time blocking.
Not knowing how you manage your time, may I suggest that you block off your breaks. Include a walk and a proper meal. I have gotten much better at making time to enjoy an actual lunch break by using the vertical time blocking.
I think Jane’s agenda has a similar weekly layout that you can use in your discbound system.
Wow 😊
I am curious what a bound planner looks like at the end of the year after filling it with stickers and washi? I am thinking that it won't really close flat but be fanned out.
I suffer from chronic pain and I decided this year I want to track how I feel everyday . I’m using a mini notebook and keeping it simple where I can jot down everyday how I feel and if I made any changes that might affect how I feel.
Looks good, however, there is not enough yellow 😊❤
Haha true! I like my planners to kind of coordinate
Could I get some of your out dated and left over happy planner stash?.. im flat broke and need to journal some scripture and don't know what to try for a little peace. ?
I have four planners for next year but they are all Happy Planner. I like disc bound planners. Don't like the bound kind. Pretty journals, just not my style.
Me too. I’m HP all the way. I love the flexibility.
Well wouldn’t it be nice if we could just reach out to a companies to get free planners.
I'm definitely so grateful!
Love your planners❤