hello and welcome back to my channel it's bullet journal time again so I'm
going to be planning for September like always I'm going to take you through
what is the month before September? August yeah as always I'm going to
take you through August and show you how I've been doing in my bullet journal so
this is my month at a glance which is the most ornate month at a glance I've ever
done in my bullet journal this took absolutely ages if you saw my last plan with me
video you will have seen I really did enjoy the kind of Palm Leaf theme it was
really really cool as you can see it's been a very busy months as well I've
been down to London for summer in the city, Scandinavia for a week, been to
Beverly this day and there's more busyness to come so that is why I laid
it out like this so that you can see everything at once and see what I was
working with these are some notes are made from summer in the city this was
actually a blank page because when I did my tracker I accidentally turned 2 pages so
I made use of this blank page with notes from some of the panels at summer in the city
here's a little day to-do list and some planning for the holiday as well so
definitely made use of this space like I said here is my tracker as you can see I
kind of stopped using it that's because obviously I was away and also my Fitbit
is broken so I can't really track my sleep
and steps anymore really accurately and I just kind of stopped using it very
much apart from for my social media that's when it's useful like the point
of the tracker is that you track your habits and can make positive changes to
them to make it easier to see what you're doing basically but I found that
I was tracking everything but wasn't actually making any changes so what is
the point so I'm going to be kind of condensing that down this month
although in September is going to be a very very busy month for me so I
probably won't have time to track a load of things so I'm going to condense that
right down I've also done a lot of reading this month which I probably
won't be doing next month I've had a quite a lot of time being on holiday and
everything which is always nice here's my capsule wardrobe spread as you can
see it is totally empty I kinda left this empty when I filmed my last plan
with me I was going to kind of review my capsule
wardrobe and then put it in but I never ended up doing that and I kind of gone
off it at the moment I want to come back to it because I really like the idea, the
simplicity of it and be having your key items of clothing so I am going to come
back to a capsule wardrobe but probably not in September because like I said
I'll be very busy these are some video ideas and this is a wish list of things that I
don't need but I want them and this is basically to try and help me spend a
little less because rather than impulse buying something I'll put it on the wish
list and then can think about it and decide if it is something I really want
so that's just a couple of things on there this is also a new spread I've
never done anything like this before this is my financial tracking because
really need to sort that out I've discovered so I've got my subscription
so things I pay every single month how much they are when they come out and I
just need to work out my council tax and then I can have a total of everything I
pay monthly and then I've got my kind of day-to-day expenditure what it was and
how much it was so that I can see where I'm overspending and so I'll do that and
until the 13th of September because I get paid on the 14th so I'm not
running it per calendar month I'm running it for like when my pay cheque
is and then at the end of that period I'm going to total up all the things I
spent on food on eating out on treats including like ubers because I don't
need to get an uber I just got one because of being lazy and exercise
things and then I will be able to see how much I'm spending in each area and
kind of come up with a budget to make sure that I'm sticking to it
basically because I've never budgeted before which is really really
bad and I just don't know how much I spend which makes it impossible to save
and put things into a saving account so I do need to come up with a budget and
stick to it but I don't know what my budget should be if I don't know what
I'm already spending so I need to kind of work out how much I am spending in
each area before I can set my target venue for each area and
make sure I stick to it so that is the plan with that and I will continue this
into September as well and then this is a first as well I've actually made a
start to my memories page and this is very different to all the previous
months because rather than drawing everything I have been sticking things
in just because I had a load of things to stick in like this Polaroid from summer
in the city this map from when we were away my boarding pass and obviously it's not the
end of month yet so I've got a couple of things to go so I will just be kind of
collaging on top of this and things where I don't have anything to stick
I'll just write a little thing and stick it with washi tape to make it stand out
so I really like how this is gone it looks really cool the only thing is it's
kind of made the page before a bit wrinkled and difficult to write on but I
don't mind I'll manage so that is August I've been using this
planner a lot in August which is good and I found it very helpful to kind of
just get everything in one place be planning, be sorting my stuff out so now
we're going to move on to September and I am trying to think off the top of my head
how I want this to go because like I said September's going to be very busy
so I won't be able to use my planner as much and I wanna condense my tracker
down so I think I'm going to stick with this layout for the month at a glance
rather than let me find you an old onefind you an old one rather than the kind of linear month so
I'll stick with this kind of layout and then maybe condense it down even more than
how it is and include my tracker down the side that's the plan anyway we'll
see how we go like I said I'm doing this similar layout in my monthly spread as I
did for August so with the kind of calendar view thank god for erasable pens
because I kept drawing too many boxes than I actually needed these erasable
pens are actually really good they're the uniball signo pen that's all I can
see in the description in black but I also really like how it comes out kind
of grey rather than jet black so I think it gives like a nicer effect
here's like I said where I was going to put my tracker up the side and condense
everything onto this two-page spread pretty much rather than
having my tracker and to-do list and what books I read on a separate page as
you can see the majority of my month is taken up with freshers week if you didn't
know I work at Northumbria Students Union and we run the official freshers
week for all the Northumbria freshers who are coming in September so that is
going to be very busy we'll be training a lot of volunteers and helping them to
move all the students in and make them feel welcome at Northumbria and then also
chaperoning some of the nights out and attending some of them for a bit of fun
as well so it's going to be a very exhausting week and then for the rest of
the month it will kind of be recovering pretty much so that's what's going on in
September I really like this bee themed I kind of did these aren't the best
drawings of bees I've ever done but hey that's what we're going with I thought
I'd keep it nice and simple but also a little bit fun have some bees in there
why not and that's why the yellow washi tape and the yellow kind of accents
throughout as well and then this is my spending and logs which like I said
previously going to be tracking my spending from the 13th of September
onwards to see where I'm spending and where I can potentially make cuts and to
inform my budget setting so I have this page which is after my August memory
page I don't know what going to be here I might do my September memories page
and might do a capsule wardrobe if I decide to I might just use it for notes
I'm not quite sure so you'll have to stay tuned until my next plan with me at
the end of this month to see kind of what I used these pages for and how I
got on with this really really condensed spread thank you so much for watching I
really hope you found this useful and interesting please comment below if your
a bullet journaller I love finding more people that are as big stationery nerds
as I am so that would be nice I'd love to get a little community together would
also be awesome and let me know what you're doing in September how's
everything going for you I will see you in my next video which will be a daily
vlog I started daily vlogging again how exciting is that so that will be up
probably Wednesday night or Thursday after this exciting time I will see you
then bye
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