Subscribe: Stay Organized With The Unique BusyBodyBook Day Planner
As a busy mom, time-management tools are the key to my sanity. Every year I buy an organizer to keep track of my schedule and hold all my to-do lists.
Last year, I reviewed the BusyBodyBook Organizer. At the time, I was balancing full-time work, multiple volunteer projects and family commitments. The BusyBodyBook helped me keep everything organized.
Soon after writing that review, I found out I was pregnant. The BusyBodyBook helped me track all my doctor’s appointments, test results, weight gain and everything pregnancy related. Now that I’m a mom, my BusyBodyBook has a dedicated place in my diaper bag. I couldn’t stay organized without it.
Since my weekends are every bit as busy as my weekdays, I hate planners that expect me to squeeze Saturday and Sunday into a tiny square. I like the BusyBodyBook for its spacious weekly grid format. Sat
urday and Sunday are given equal space, and the 5 column view enables me to track my work, blogging, volunteer commitments, baby’s playdates, baby’s pediatrician appointments, husband’s work schedule, and even my limited-now-that-I-have-a-baby-social-life in an easy-to-read side-by-side format.
If you have more than one child, you could use the columns on the grid to track each kid’s activities and projects. Students can use the BusyBodyBook’s grid to record homework assignments for up to 5 school subjects.
There are other handy features, such as the planning calendar which lets you see 6 months in a glance. The 2009 calendar is useful for recording things like dentist and annual ob-gyn appointments. (Much better than trying to remember where you put those little reminder cards.) The two cover pockets are useful for storing flyers and invitations to events. Although I own a separate address book, I use the contact pages to list essential contacts I want to have with me at all times.
Best of all for a listmaker like me, every weekly calendar page is accompanied with a full page for writing and tracking your to-dos. There’s even a perforated section at the back of the book for writing to-do or shopping lists to tear out and carry with you.
Want It:
You can purchase the BusyBodyBook for $17.95 at BodyBodyBook.com or at Amazon.
The makers of the BusyBodyBook also offer a magnetic 7-column weekly grid refrigerator pad. You can purchase the Fridge Grid Pad for $11.95 at BusyBodyBook.com.
Win It:
For a chance to win a BusyBodyBook, leave a comment on this post by 11:59pm on August 20, 2008 letting us know how you would use your personal organizer.
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I would use it for all of the therapy and doctor’s appointments for my daughter. And all the school things coming up. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
I definitely need one of these. I am starting school again in the fall so I need to keep tabs on that, when bills are due, my social (haha) schedule, the baby’s schedule, hubby’s schedule, my gi-normous To-Do list…I could go on and on. (Fingers and Toes Crossed)
I so need a great calendar/organizer like this. I have been using a big wall calendar, but this fall I am going back to work for the first time in 6 years, so I will need something I can carry to work too.
I would use it for doctor,dentist, and school activities. I would also use it for the birthdays that I need to remember.
I would use it for my everyday appointments, reminders, birthdays – you name it. ANYTHING to keep me organized!
What a practical and great giveaway. It would be wonderful to record appointments, trips, and all the everyday happenings. Thanks.
My life is so hectic right now! My mom, who has Alzheimers has many appts, my dad who had a heart attack about a month ago has many appts, my youngest daughter has appts and school events and myself and husband both have various appts.
I think I could fill it all in one go!!
I adore the wide spaces of the busybody book! I also like the fact that each child can have his own space for the parent’s record keeping. It is so convenient to have to just glance at a calendar and see what is going on that day or week. Please enter me in your delightful drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
Wow this sounds like the organiser i need! I have a three year old son and another due at the end of the month, i work part time and study part time so things can get pretty chaotic! I am nortoriously bad at paying bills on time and have to write everything down or its gone!
Thanks,
Jenna- Australia
mountaingoats AT hotmail DOT com
I would use it for to do lists and appointment lists..
Under medical treatments, working mom, nanny, need I say more?
I’ve been on summer break with no need to keep track of time and dates. Work starts up in two more weeks and I need to get back in gear, unfortunately! A new planner would help!! :)
This would be great to try to keep up with school/Church/Dr’s Appts/etc.
Thanks for the chance.
Uses:
to keep track of:
3 children
one dog
1st grade meetings
preschool volunteering
an 11 month old’s playdates
MOMS club activites
preschool board meetings
scrapbooking
AND!!!…
my social (ha) life
;) Cynthia
What a great priZe.
Thanks for all the excellent contests!
What a great organizer!
This looks terrific — I would definitely use it to keep track of appointments, goals, and to-do lists. Very handy!
Day Planner is essential equipment… dont have one yet so I am still guessing at my day… lol
I would use it to organize my special dates and appointments.
I could definitely use a planner I am always forgetting thing and this way I would never. Being a busy mom I can right down all of my appointments.
We have a crazy schedule so I would use it to organize everything. Birthdays, school events, parties, dr. appts., vet appts., misc. reminders….the list is never ending.
really with all the forgetting and all the strange schedules- we really need this
It is so ridiculous trying to remember everybody’s appointments, activity schedules, work shifts, etc. I like that I could use a different column for each person. That’s great and there’s lots of space! Thanks for the giveaway.
I would use it for my appointments and birthdays that I forget
I am an organizational freak. I need a cute planner that can fit in my purse. This would be perfect and sounds like me. =] Thanks for this giveaway!
To organize my life w/three kids! Doctors appointments, counseling, volunteering, practice… you name it.
gkstratos@yahoo.com
Becuase my average thought process sounds like this… “I need to make the baby a Dr’s appt… Need to buy diapers at lunch… Who did I need to call today?… Need to buy toilet paper too… What else do we need?… Doh! I forgot to call the Dr and now they’re closed… Okay, I’ve got toothpaste, wipes and a candy bar… Why doesn’t the baby have diaper on?!?”
to organize
I would use it to remind me of where I’d been and where I’m supposed to be day to day, and how much it cost me! Nothin’ like knowin’ where the money disappears!
With my hubby’s training and the new baby’s doctor appointments/feeding schedule and keeping up with my son Gabriel’s milestones I’d definately put the BusyBodyBook Day Planner to good use! I have to write down everything even now to remember it all and I end up losing my post it notes.. maybe Gabriel (17 months old) is hiding them? LOL
phillipsonlygirl at gmail dot com
I have two full time jobs, a sick mother who lives quite a distance, and my father has some health issues also. This book would help me feel like I am not going around in circles and help me organize my life.
I’ve avoided the thought of an organizer for our ’stuff’ for years, but as I get ready to go back to work and to school for my Master’s Degree, in addition to church/school/sports meetings for dh, 2 sons, and me…..I think I might need one. Thanks for sharing!
This would be wonderful for our family. With us having our third child due in December and my other children keeping us busy we could use some organization. This would be great to write down doctors appointments, PTA meetings, and recitals. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’m a substitute teacher, so my schedule changes daily and is hard to keep up with. This could help out.
I am a CPA and I would love this to help me keep my clients and my children organized. Thanks for the chance.
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I would use it to write down when I work and all my appts.
I’m starting a business so this would help a lot.
Thank you for having this. I would use this to organize my days with the kids school and sport activities and with husbands schedule. This would be fantastic to help me get more organized
I could really use this!! I have three kids all with conflicting schedules and I’d use it to keep them all straight :)
I would use it to try and organize the mound of to-do lists that I scribble all over the place. I seem to have a lot of them with 2 young children and another one due later in the year.
I would use it to keep track of all my family’s appointments and activities. This year I am going to be homeschooling my 5 year old son so I can use this to keep track of all the homeschooling association meetings and activities as well as other daily activities and important events. Thanks for the contest!
My husband, daughter, and I have vastly different schedules…and one car. We need help coordinating.
I would use this organaizer to keep track of my kids and what they are up to as well as my home business such as when to get orders out and everything.
Thank you for a very useful and helpful giveaway.
Both my kids are becoming busy in sports, school, playdates…and then their is my husband and I who are just as busy. It would be nice to have it all written down so I could see where we are and where we SHOULD be!!
Besides using it for scheduling, I also love making ‘to do’ lists (actually any kind of list/note) and I think this planner would be great for that!
I’d use it to stay organized with appointments, my kids, grocerys, birthdays, everything! haha
I’d love to win!!!
I am due with baby #5 any day now and would use this to keep all my children’s activities and appointments organized.
Oh gosh! I can never remember anything. I’d keep all the appointments, schedules & anything else that can fit in in it.
Beginning lots of freelance work with two elementary-aged kids to keep track of this school year while managing the husband’s business. I’m a little worried how I’m going to juggle the work, the kids, the school volunteering – this organizer seems like just the thing! Thanks!
This book would be great for me, since college is starting up again soon and I will need aa plnner to help me keep up with the homework.
I would use the BusyBodyBook to keep track of my family’s social calendar, birthdays, work meetings, you name it! I need one portable place to record all of these items!
I love the grid – keeping track of activities for two school-aged kids, plus my husband’s and my appointments, and everything I want to be able to do with my 2-year-old will be difficult and this would really help! :)
Looks like a great organizer; I’d use it to track the going-on for my 3 young kiddos, and I work full-time as well and have a lot of meetings, etc that need to be kept track of.
I would use this planner to keep up with both of my daughter’s doctor appointments and trips to specialists.
And also to organize party dates
I desperately need this to organzize my Pampered Chef business…and all the other crazy stuff in my busy life. THANKS
I have serious problems remembering appointments! Thank you
I totally need one of these! Thanks!!
kenzkween at hotmail dot com
Oooo. . .This looks fabulous! I’d use it to keep all of my school scheduling and deadlines in order. Thanks!
I am one of those people who would love to be organized but never seems to get there… this would be a great start! As in your post, I’m pregnant and could definitely use a good way to keep track of all the appointments and such that go along with that, as well as having an almost-2-year-old daughter that has a busy schedule. Who knew story times and play dates and the pool and music class and everything else would keep us running all the time? Thanks for the giveaway!
I use an electronic calendar at work. I would love to use this at home though for appointments for our entire family
I am a list freak! There are lists everywhere! Lists of things to do that day, month, year. With my daughters starting gymnastics and preschool this fall, I need something awesome like this to keep track of my mind!
Thanks so much for the opportunity!
anavarre1331@bellsouth.net
As a single mom running a home based business & working on my 2nd masters degreee…I could really use this organizer. Plus, those ballet lessons, German language Saturaday school, playdates – all that well-rounded kids stuff; yes, I could really put that organizer to good use. Thanks for hosting!
I would use it to help me keep my “head above water” with a new baby on the way, a 1 year old and a busy, busy 16 year old. I am going to need all the tools I can get my hands on.
i’d use it to wrangle my baby’s schedule and my jobs as an mft intern, performer, private voice teacher, and parent-baby music class teacher…:)
To keep track of everyday appointments and dates.
this would really help me remember all the doctors appointments. I missed 2 in a row recently
I am always making an attempt to get organized. This year I’ll have a kindergartener, a preschooler, I work from home, and my husband and I both volunteer at our church. Still deciding whether we’ll do dance class this year. And I totally agree on the weekends — sometimes that’s where most of the activity is!
I am so in need of an organizer. I have everything On a big calender but then there are times I just don’t go by the calender. I have other dates and appointments on pieces of paper and well they just get lost. This way every appointment and date would be all in one place.
A calendar is just enough this organizer would be great to keep track of everyones busy schedule and my husband works shifts that are 24 hours so this way i know when he is working
This would be a great product to get organized.
I would use it to combat the forgetfulness of my impending old age!
Great giveaway!
My cousin could use it to keep track of all important dates and appointments for her three kids!
And I would consider using it as a planner for when I head off to school!
Thanks so much!
Kelsey
rawrissexy@gmial.com
I would use it to keep track of the family’s appointments. Great giveaway, thanks!
Great prize and i would like to win this prize so that i can keep track of all my appointments.
I’m a teacher and so I absolutely need to be well organized. the BusyBodyBook looks like it could help me become less of a scatterbrain.
I’d use it to keep track of play dates, appointments – everything. I’m a list person, I can’t funcion unless I write my ‘to-do’s’ down!
belinda_streak(at)hotmail(dot)com
Work, school, soccer . . .
Everything! Soccer practice and games, my husband’s appointments with clients, birthday parties, doctor appointments – the list goes on and on! Thanks for the great giveaway.
i would love to get organized, I need help just getting started.
I would love this! I have a home business and this would really help me – plus of course all the normal family stuff! Thanks!
I would use it to help me keep up with paying all the bills and when they are all due, also for grocery lists, etc. I need something like this!
This is pure genius…a place for everything (and everyone)…love it…need it…want it…
Keeping my fingers crossed!!
My organizer need to be replaced already so this one is the prefect solution. I always organize our family activities such as paying bills and etc..
thanks for this giveaway,
mginah_lp@yahoo.com
Hard to believe, but even retired grandparents need to get organized. This looks like just what we need.
I’d love one too. As a stay at home mom (on the run) with three little ones, life would be more organized with this great calendar.
This would be great! I love that it makes diet and exercise priorities next to scheduled activities!
very nice i have 2 kids and just moved.
I also need someone to keep me motivated to make a plan to include exercise and good foods in my daily life.
I love organizing and sharing ideas with others. I am excited to see this product & possibily promote it on my site.
I would like to organize my dog shows, dog medications, play dates (dogs) and vet appointments…I think you get the idea!
to keep track of where my kids are
I’d use this organizer to keep track of appointments, to-do lists, grocery shopping, church commitments, and my stepdaughter’s visitation schedule. It would be nice to have it all in one place, and for it to be portable!
this would help me actually plan things to do instead of being lazy and just playing at home with the girls all the time.
I would use it to help organize work, home, school, ministry and family functions. I could REALLY use this! :)
I would use it to remind me of everything. I am getting quite forgetful in my old age.
For the Doctors and Dentist appt’s. and so much more. Right now I am very disorganized =(
I love the idea of separate columns for different family members. This year all 3 of my kids will be in school.
I would use it to arrange school schedules – but especially for tests!
arrange school schedules
With one child in preschool and one in high school, I could really use this to organize their schedules. Would also be great for doctor’s appointments.
so need a great calendar/organizer like this. I have been using a big wall calendar, but this fall I am going back to work for the first time in 6 years, so I will need something I can carry to work too.
I so need a great calendar organizer like this. I have been using a big wall calendar, but this fall I am going back to work for the first time so I will need something I can carry to work too.
I would use it for all of my teaching appointments.
I have six children, so I’d use it to keep track of everyone’s schedules of where they needed to be and at what time.
Would use it for my To-Do list !
I am currently living in Romania and work for a foundation that runs a school for impoverished children. My husband and I work to help coordinate volunteer teams and various office duties throughout the school year. I am also enrolled at Dallas Baptist University studying to get my MBA in accounting. This planner will help keep my personal, work and school lives organized and on track.
I like to keep track of two children’s schedules and my husband’s schedule. I am also taking care of an aging mother and need to keep track of her medical appointments. I work outside the home and need to track my personal as well as business schedule. I will also use it to track my church activities.
I would use it to help keep track of my crazy life now that my son is going into kindergarten and we’re moving into a new home. I was just looking at organizers today at Target.
I would love to have one of these. I could use it to keep track of by busy life.
I’d actually give it to my sister in law who is in the middle of her first pregnancy, which is high risk so she goes to like 4 doctors every week.
I would use it to remind my self of just about everything… yup… I am almost 70 and need to really, really win this. Thanks for the chance.
would give it to my daughter who sometimes canly keep it all together!!!
i soo need this for pre-k classes, language classes, baby dr appts, moms club activities, and of course family time
i would give it to my mate, hes a mess
To help me keep track of appointments and birthdays!
I would use it to keep track of my schedule,and appointments coming up
Actually I wouldn’t keep it, I would give it as a gift—-she needs one bad!
preschool starts this year…so I will now have a more rigid schedule to keep
I would use it to keep track and organize all my childrens activities and appointments!
I homeschool 3 kids and also have an infant son. I would use it to stay organized on their school assignments.
I need this because me and my husband just made an international move, are in one place about to move to another state, and basically its chaotic right now. I would love to be more organized!
I would use it to track whatever we’re on in our homeschooling curriculum for each child in it’s own column, my volunteer work in 1, and blog entries that I have planned/contests ending in one column. The last column would be for the misc fun things that pop up in our lives! (come on more fun stuff! lol)
I love that this is perfect for so many different people.
I definately need work on my organization skills.
I have a planner I use at work that I also include family information in. It would be great to have a separate planner to use just for home & family.
What a fabulous organinzer – I love the stripes!
would use daily to keep track of everything
I would love this organizer so I could keep track of the school and other activities for myself, my husband and my son.
I would use it for school assignments, dr appts, and birthdays.
With a large family, you need to be organized to keep track of everyone’s stuff! I would use this to make my calender more organized, because all I use is a calender and it tends to overflow the little squares!
legacyofbrutalitysa{AT}gmail.com
As the most unorganized human on the planet, I would use it for everything!
I’m diabetic and pregnant for my first time. This organizer is the perfect thing to help keep my doctor appointments in line.
Family information!
I’d use the organizer to keep track of my husband’s work schedule, my daughters school activities and dance practices, my work info and all appts.
This looks way better than the scraps of paper i write on in my purse!
I would use this for the girls who both start separate schools next year- and both have different hours on different days.. and which days they need lunch… *holy moly i need this!*
also, both have lots of doc appts and checkups for reflux related stuff and I work full time but we schedule fun time too. (I mark off two weekends a month where we are not allowed to accept any invitations ) so the girls can have spontaneous fun weekends or so we can go out as a family and do “scheduled” spontaneous fun like going to a creek and looking for critters, and having dance parties in their room and reminding myself which motown cd i want to keep in their room on which week..and laurie berkner singin time… man. i didnt realize how busy we were til i wrote this!
Great Schedule !!
On top of work and family obligations I run a home run business. I would use it to plan and
organize all events and stay organized.
I’m starting college this Fall, on top of being a single mother. I also work full-time and do volunteering at the local senior citizen center twice a week so I definitely need to keep tabs on everything!
I would try to organize my life with it. It would be a start.
I would use the personal organizer to write down to do lists and keep track of homework assignments if I go back to school. This is a great giveaway and I really hope I win. Thanks.
Oh my gosh, with 4 kids in school from 1st grade through 9th grade I could really use this book. Each kid would get their own column, as well as, us parents would get one too. I could actually have an organized daytimer for once!!!
this would be great for school projects! i’m always worried that i’m gonna miss something!
I NEED one of these, lol. I think every mom does. I have this horrible case of, as I so lovingly call it, “Mommy Brain”. At first I thought it was only “Pregnancy Brain”…but I was wrong, it continues >.< Maybe when I get a bit more sleep it’ll be better…when is that? Anyways, we own our own small business, so I definately need to keep my appointments and other commitments organized. Before I was just keeping track of things with post-it notes, and comitting things to memory, I can see that just isn’t going to cut it anymore! The other week I forgot TWO important comittments. I would definately use this to organize my life. Great giveaway, thank you :)
i would use it to organize our monthly bills
I would use it to organize my hectic schedule.
i have always been a big fan of the planners. I hope to get a new job soon, but until i write it things i need to do for work, i can fill it up with dr appointments for my son, play dates, important things to remember, etc…
I started to write about how hectic my life is and then realized that I was writing a book. Anyway, I could really use this planner.
we could use this
I home school and I could use this to organize all my kid’s activities.
I have a very crazy & hectic life, and I think this organizer would help me keep my sanity!
Anything to help keep us organized would be great…two working parents and two school-aged children with various activites and appointments.
I would use it to keep my daughter school/work, and my son’s music shows. Plus to be sure I don’t repeat working out arms or legs too many times.
cherylfrancisco@hotmail.com
My wife is doing too much this should help her get organized.
I would use it to organize all the appointments my famil has-school, after school, doctor appointments, etc.
I would use my personal organizer to keep track of my daily activities.
I’m hoping to fill this planner with all kinds of singing engagements and goals for my whole family (and what we plan to do each day to reach those goals). Super Star!
What a great organizer!
My husband and I have very busy work schedules and this would definitely helps us sort that out and everything my son is involved in
I would use it to schedule all of our appointments.
i’d use it to track my exercise regime as i try to lose the baby weight
[...] I first discovered the BusyBodyBook in 2007. Its 5 column grid design has made it my favorite. Plus, you can tell it was designed by a mom since Saturday and Sunday have as much planning space as Monday-Friday because moms work a 7-day week! (Read our full review here.) [...]
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