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August 26, 2019

Carpe Diem Home Planner Review (Pros, Cons & Video Walkthrough)

Carpe Diem have pretty and functional planners. Their budget planner is my favorite paper planner for money management so I was keen to do a review of their Home Planner!

Quick facts

  • Cover Size: 7.25″ wide x 8.75″ high
  • Page Size: 6.25″ wide x 8.25″ high
  • Hardcover
  • Wire binding
  • Dates at a glance page
  • Tabs
  • Colorful inside pages
  • (7) Personal info inserts
  • (14) 2 page monthly calendar pages
  • (26) Schedule inserts
  • (21) Get it done inserts
  • (21) Menu plan inserts
  • (8) To do inserts
  • (1) Interior pocket
  • 2 Sticker sheets in coordinating colors

Let’s take a closer look!

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If you like the Carpe Diem home planner, you’ll love the Carpe Diem budget planner that I did a review of in this post.

The Cover

Love the cover of this planner! It’s super sturdy hardcover with gold corners.

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Approx  1″ thick

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Home Information

At the front of the planner are home organization type pages including password logs, account info and contacts.

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Monthly Calendar

Starts Sunday (not consistent with the weekly spread)

As you can see the calendar is undated so you can start planning anytime! If you don’t want to write in the dates this brand has an entire sticker book with date dot stickers (it’s one of my all time favorite sticker books – I use it all the time)

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Weekly Schedule

The proportions of this planner are a bit weird. There are 12 monthly calendar spreads… but only 26 weekly spreads.

This planner has 3 different weekly spreads:

  • 1 page weekly spread with the days of the week
  • 1 page categories weekly spread (u.e. icons and no days of the week)
  • 1 page menu planner (with days of the week)

If you wanted to use 2 of the weekly spreads together to create a 2 page weekly spread, you’ll need to flick back and forth between the tabs.

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Menu Planning

These pages are yet another weekly spread… so there’s 3 different weekly spreads in the same planner.

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But oddly no grocery list pages…

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Checklists

At the back of the planner are some checklists, unfortunately there are only 8 pages of them!

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Tabs

The tabs are sturdy, laminated cardstock. Each of the dividers are double sided with different patterns on the front and back.

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Planner stickers

If you want more coordinating stickers, Carpe Diem do entire sticker booklets including the home sticker book.

use their rainbow calendar and number stickers all the time!

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Pros of the Planner

  • Colorful
  • Undated – start planning anytime

Cons of the Planner

  • Not enough home organization pages
  • Not enough checklists
  • There are meal planning pages but no grocery lists
  • If you want to use the weekly planning pages to create a 2 page weekly spread you’ll have to flick back and forth between the tabs
  • Monthly calendar starts Sunday, the weekly spreads start Monday
  • The planner is heavy

Would I use this planner?

No. I loved the Carpe Diem budget planner which has a similar style to this planner so had high hopes for this one. However the Home planner is a bit disjointed. Nothing really seems to fit, there are 3 different weekly planning pages but there’s no home management pages like cleaning schedules, home inventories, budgeting, home cleaning recipes reference chart or anything like the icons shown on the cover etc.

If you like this planner, my sister stocks it in her planner supplies shop.

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Comments

  1. Marta says

    August 27, 2019 at 02:50

    I think To Do pages are regular schedule task for, something like FlyLady system. You just need to write a to-do checklist for every room of your home, and then based on these you could schedule the weekly and daily task to the earlier pages.

  2. MaryAnn Coy says

    August 27, 2019 at 12:41

    Strikes me this planner is a work in progress. The bones & setup look great for a small planner. I could not use it. They just don’t seem to have a handle on what the inserts should be. They would be smart to convert to the disc or a binder format and offer open stock on the various inserts, allow people to self tailor the planner to their needs. I didn’t notice any goal pages, or tracking pages, and list pages were small. If there was an index, I missed it. No dates & no pagination are an asset to me. I did notice no split weekends. I personally don’t mind if the month & weekly calendars don’t start on the same day. In the US that is standard. Plus nurses work weekends so the weekend as a separate entity has never existed for me. The To Do List is just longer with more complex tasks on whatever days we are not on the clock or shifts we are not scheduled. By the way thankyou for rerunning the article on sticker storage, it answered all my questions & my sticker notebook is now accomplished. Thank you!

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