The day I went into Staples to buy my 2014 calendar pages for the Day Runner, I was heading to the check-out when I felt the lure of the Martha Stewart office supplies. Staples, and office supply stores in general are dangerous for me in the way the Container Store is. Somehow the prospect of paper clips and post-it notes and just the right size container for anything are the promise of an organized, de-cluttered, chaos-free life. I can just run into the store for something simple - a new ink cartridge, let's say, and easily spend an extra ten or fifteen minutes gazing at gel pens or D-ring binders, imagining the papers already corralled, sorted, and filed, and the top of my office bookcase clean and clear. It's almost heady. Add Martha Stewart and her robin's egg blue and neutral-colored office products to the mix and clearly the beautiful life is at hand. Here's what grabbed me:
Yes, it's a notebook. Isn't it beautiful???
But it's just another spiral notebook, I hear you cry. Martha has eaten your brain, Joanna, it is clear.
Well, yes. Sort of. It's a discbound notebook, also known as roll-a-bind, or Circa, as per Levenger. It's a binder and a spiral-bound book merged into one, complete with removable pages, but without the heavy weight of a metal loose-leaf binder. The size is the same as my usual notebook, but to this I can add and remove pages, including calendar pages. I bought dividers to go with it so I can have sections for calendar, notes, to-do lists, address pages, etc.
And if I want to add pages I've created or printed myself, no problem. Someone has already thought of this. Behold, a special hole punch!
Now there's only one problem with my shiny new notebook/calendar that already has its lovely 2014 calendar pages ready to go: where do I put my pen? But Levenger has thought of this too...
Guess what's next on the shopping list...
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