Live Rich Planner

 I've been a planner since elementary school. I primarily use the Happy Planner planners but decided to give The Budget Mom's Liver Rich Planner a try. It was a difficult transition going from a vertical Happy Planner to an hourly Live Rich Planner. After a week or two I began to figure out how I wanted to utilize the planner.

Each month starts with a monthly calendar like most planners.

I think this page is what I was most excited about. The Happy Planner has half sheets you can purchase to insert your meal plan in each week. I was tired of having to buy separate sheets just to meal plan. 

The other side has a cleaning section. I'm not sure how everyone else used this page, but I needed to know what I had to do each day. I'm sure there are other ways to utilize this page, but I can't think of any at the moment.

This is the weekly spread. This was the first week I used the planner, and I quickly learned not to fill the whole work box with words. I needed to put in meeting information, so going forward I would just highlight my work times so I could still add any meeting information needed.

There is one page I didn't share in this planner and that is the personal finance page. If you have the Budget by Paycheck workbook, the personal finance page is a more simplified version. I didn't utilize that page as much mainly because all that information is only needed in my Budget by Paycheck workbook.

I think there are pros and cons to the planner. One con for me is I am a very seasonal planner, which is what drew me to the Happy Planner in the first place. I like that I can make this planner as seasonal as I'd like, but that would take a lot of creativity and time I do not have. The other con is to this planner is not being able to take the pages out like the Happy Planner.

Once we lost our house, I did not have a need for the Live Rich Planner anymore. I have switched back to the Happy Planner for now. Maybe once we get a house again, I will give it another try.