Edit: I’ve sold all the ones I ordered in. Thank you to those of you who bought a planner off me.
I wrote a post a while back reviewing the Paperblanks dayplanners, and joked that I would be wholesaling them. Well, guess what? I am! I have a few dayplanners for sale and wanted to put it out there to you guys. As you know, I am enamoured with their quality and also their business practises as a company, and feel that these are high enough quality that I am comfortable selling them. They actually worked out cheaper than I expected, so these are $16 plus shipping. They come in many colours, but I selected purple:
Green:
And brown:
I have a few of each colour available. Please email me or leave a comment if you are interested in any of these dayplanners.
I went to Bellingham with a friend last year. Our actual reason for going was to drop off a dog to its new home, but we decided to make it a bit of a shopping trip and also went for lunch. We went into Bellingham and had lunch at one of the best breakfast joints I have ever been to in my entire life called “The Little Cheerful” and decided to have a wander around the surrounding businesses. It was Deadsville, USA - I guess because only the locals shop there, and everyone else hits the outlet malls and Bellis Fair. We also went to a little gift/trinket/kitschy shop (I wish I could remember the name) where I bought a new dayplanner for the year ahead. It looks just like this one here, only it was for 2008 (duh).
It’s faux-leather, and well bound using a type of binding called “Smythe Sewn” , and had two ribbon markers and this really neat magnet closure. Its slim and fits nicely in my bag. Inside, the pages are a week at a time with a little space for notes and it also has a small address book (that you can remove) and a tiny pocket for things like dry cleaning claim tickets or receipts. (Note – you can also buy day planners with other interior formats – check out their website for examples of the formats they offer.) I find it incredibly useful and here it is the beginning of September and I am still using it. For me, that is a sign of true usefulness – I managed to like it for the whole year. Another sign is that I have bought three purses this year, and all three purses had to fit the planner in it in order to be acceptable. By fitting the purse to the planner, I know where my priorities lie.
Its Back To School time, so instantly I am thinking ahead to 2009 and thinking about Autumn and homemade Christmas gifts and crafts and rainy days, and I can’t think of all that without thinking of dayplanners. I am so enamoured with this Paperblanks dayplanner that I actually went on a hunt for a local retailer to buy the 2009 version of the exact same one.
My search turned up two things:
- Chapters and Amazon are the only two local retailers and their websites don’t show the 2009 versions on sale yet, and besides I hate them. There is another small retailer but I called and they apparently don’t stock them anymore. I was surprised. Most of the retailers listed only stock their journals, not their dayplanners.
- The wholesaler for Paperblanks is located in Ontario and the minimum wholesale order is a mere 10.
Three guesses what those two facts have added up to.
I’ll wait.
No really.
Well, I emailed the wholesaler and have asked for a catalog and I am going to be ordering a few planners to resell to friends and family. I mean, 10? I can easily find 9 others who want to buy them. So if these planners appeal to you, feel free to drop me a note. I think they will work out to about $20-$25 each for the slim version and slightly more for the larger sizes when you include tax and shipping.
In any event, I want to recommend the Paperblanks brand for other reasons. Paperblanks as a company also practises socially responsible business:
We take painstaking care of every detail of the process, the ones you see and the ones you cannot, including the book components, the social and environmental effects of producing journals and the well-being the of the craftspeople who put them together.
They are also commited to the environment by not only using paper from a sustainable source, and not only by supporting both Tree Canada and the David Suzuki Foundation (among others), but also by participating in a carbon offsetting program where they pay a voluntary “tax” to offset their carbon footprint. A company like that is a company I want to support and encourage people I know to purchase their products.
So all in all I have to give the Paperblanks Dayplanner a hearty “hells-yeah” and hey, drop me a note if you are interested in me adding you to the order I am going to place next week.
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