Kikki K planner stuff is expensive. Super expensive. I tend to avoid shopping there because of this. However, when I saw a daily planning notepad on clearance I couldn’t resist. Did I actually need a daily planning notepad? Nope. I use day to a page planners only a handful of times each year. But it was cute, and it was on sale… so to the cash register with it I went!

Kikki K Daily Planning Notepad

Apart from my love of anything / everything rainbow colored, gold foil is my next favorite thing (I also found a gold foil weekly notepad which I shared how I used in this post). Ok fine, I’ll admit I got a gold foil monthly notepad too.

I tend to avoid daily planners as the schedules usually don’t work for a night owl like me. However, this one had a top 3 priorities, to do list space, gold foil <3 and was a reasonable page size (7″ x 9.75″) – not too big and not too small, so I was going to make it work.

I kept it simple since you can’t do much decorating with a notepad and it feels a bit wasteful to go all out with stickers, washi tape etc. for something that’s going to get torn off and end up in the bin (one of the reasons I prefer proper bound planners over notepads).

I used white out to get rid of the times. I do not roll out of bed until 9 – 10am on a weekend so had a bit of empty space up the top that I doodled a quick chevron pattern.

I like this page size for weekly planning, but after using this notepad, I don’t think I need something this big / this much detail for daily planning.

Supplies Used

Kikki K daily planning notepad (no longer for sale but similar ones are available)
Paper Mate Flair UF mustard color from the candy pop colors pack (my sister has it in her shop, Carefully Crafted)

Related: Kikki K Weekly Planner Review

Would I use the notepad again?

Did I feel more motivated to use the notepad and get things done because it was pretty and expensive? Surprising (to me), the answer was no.

Readers often ask me if I think it’s worth it to splurge on expensive stationery and normally I say yes. If you find a planner that has the right layout that’s in sync with how you plan and it happens to be expensive, then I think it’s well worth the investment.

However, with most expensive stationery I have this thing where I don’t want to ‘mess up’ – I want to keep it neat, which means it can sit on the shelf for a while before I get around to using it. I do think there comes a point where it’s not worth the time it takes to hack a planner to make it work for you, no matter how cute it is (or how much you paid for it). If I were someone that used a daily planner everyday I imagine I’d grow annoyed / bored with whiting out the times of this notepad.

Daily planning notepads are ok, but I much prefer a planners where all the pages are kept together – notepads fall apart too easily. They’re good for scratch paper and if you don’t want to keep your planner as a journal.

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Vanessa says

August 7, 2018 at 16:11

in 2017 I had a coloring book daily planner. It was about 5×7 had a picture to color on the top and space at the bottom for notes. I kept it right by my keyboard at work and as the day progressed I could note what needed to be done/had been done, turn ahead to note what needed to be done on certain days and when stressed color the picture. LOVED IT. But they didn’t make one for 2018. I tried to make my own using a plain notepad and doing zendoodles at the top but it wasn’t the same. I wrote the company and complained and they said they had a lot of requests for it so maybe they will bring it back. I won’t need it I retired 31 May and am planning my 6-8 week trip to Australia.

Using a Kikki K Daily Planner Notepad – is Kikki K Stationery Worth The Cost?

Kikki K Daily Planning Notepad

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