In today’s episode, I confess to my recent planner switchup, and then share ALL of my love for Quintile 4, some “throwback” fall favorites (1990s ‘back to school’ magazine issues anyone?) , and 8 planning tactics for the back to school season.


(Probably neither ideal . . .)
MD Notebook mentioned (affiliate link) + shown in Friday’s post!
Prior “Plan with Me” seasonal ep mentioned: Ep #304, Plan Your Summer with Me!
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9 Comments
I LOVED getting the August issue of Seventeen magazine 😊
I was SO EXCITED to go through all the back to school magazines! I loved Seventeen and Sassy too!
I was a big fan of YM but looking at those covers, I’m a little horrified, lol. Let’s self-diagnose with OCD and stress about not being as skinny as our friends. I do remember loving all the embarrassing story TraumaRama type articles.
haha yep! (possibly still more benign than what is on IG/TikTok today though . . )
Can you link the planner you talked about in this podcast?
sadly I can’t find the exact 18 month one – but the 12 month version is this:
https://www.papersource.com/products/2027-paper-source-black-weekly-pocket-planner-9781613261668?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=430adafc2&pr_rec_pid=10761622323510&pr_ref_pid=10761620095286&pr_seq=uniform
I am desperately trying to remember who this girl on the Seventeen cover is (without googling!)
Amy something!
amy smart maybe?