This is my 2023 Hobonichi Weeks Mega in Lagoon, with a stripey Cover on Cover.
I had intended to use this planner for the continuation of my decluttering and sales project. My 2022 project has concentrated mostly on selling clothes and jewellery, with a few sales of Filofaxes through my blog. 2023 is going to be sales of stationery and planners. I am so proud of my progress during this year. I have downsized considerably, donated to charity, and been able to put money into my travelling fund and pension.
The original aim was to continue my sales project in this planner, but last weekend we finally booked our trip to South Africa. Neither of us had wanted to even think about it, given that we have had to cancel this trip FOUR times due to Covid. The last time we booked (December 2021), we had to cancel a mere two weeks before departure due to the sudden explosion of Covid Omicron in South Africa. At that point, family members were already making our beds and planning a welcome home party. After that I lost the will to even try to plan a trip.
But..but…last weekend we bit the bullet and booked, and now the planning starts. Thanks to developments during Covid, both of us can work remotely from South Africa, which means I can use the Hobonichi calendar to take bookings and notes during and for after the trip.
The trip will be 24 days, and the Hobonichi is for an entire year, but I am going to do the following:
- use the December pages for day to day pre-trip planning (cat-sitters, shopping for cat supplies and gifts for family and friends)
- write down flight and hotel details in the weekly calendar
- write down lesson bookings on the month to view calendar, to be transferred back in Sweden
- record information about sales, to be transferred back in Sweden
- use the note pages at the back for to-do lists (before, during and after the trip)
- staple and glue receipts, newspaper clippings, useful bits of paper into the pages so they will not be lost.
- closer to the time I will change to a leather cover and in the slots I will keep my various cards – driver’s licence, EU insurance card, passport card.
- I will also keep a record of distance travelled each day, what we did with family and sights we visited.
The nice thing about doing this is that, afterwards, this will be an amazing travel memento. Our trip in a nutshell!
