As a vintage sticker collector with a collection from the 1980s, I was really excited to learn of Pipsticks and their planners as well. I even started my own sticker club in the 1980s too, with just a few of my friends. Of course, the new Workman planners would be something I would want to have to use to organize my schedule. The Just Getting Started 2019 planner published by PIPSTICKS Workman publishers is the newest edition of the Pipsticks Workman planners.
his large sized, hard cover spiral bound planner is perfect for all ages, from teenagers to even grown career women in their 40s. With the retro themed cartoons mature women born in the 70s will appreciate the colorful, simple, line drawings of vintage cord styled telephones, cassette tapes, roller skates, vintage styled bikes, and old black vinyl records that require a record player. The simple stickers of dream catchers, mushrooms, vintage coin purse, coffee cups and mixers will appeal to the baby boomer women. These familiar memorabilia will allow women to reminisce and relive their 80s youth as they fill their busy schedules. While appealing to older women, the colorful art will draw in the younger customers who will use this planner for school assignments and after school activities as well.
his large sized, hard cover spiral bound planner is perfect for all ages, from teenagers to even grown career women in their 40s. With the retro themed cartoons mature women born in the 70s will appreciate the colorful, simple, line drawings of vintage cord styled telephones, cassette tapes, roller skates, vintage styled bikes, and old black vinyl records that require a record player. The simple stickers of dream catchers, mushrooms, vintage coin purse, coffee cups and mixers will appeal to the baby boomer women. These familiar memorabilia will allow women to reminisce and relive their 80s youth as they fill their busy schedules. While appealing to older women, the colorful art will draw in the younger customers who will use this planner for school assignments and after school activities as well.
his large sized, hard cover spiral bound planner is perfect for all ages, from teenagers to even grown career women in their 40s. With the retro themed cartoons mature women born in the 70s will appreciate the colorful, simple, line drawings of vintage cord styled telephones, cassette tapes, roller skates, vintage styled bikes, and old black vinyl records that require a record player. The simple stickers of dream catchers, mushrooms, vintage coin purse, coffee cups and mixers will appeal to the baby boomer women. These familiar memorabilia will allow women to reminisce and relive their 80s youth as they fill their busy schedules. While appealing to older women, the colorful art will draw in the younger customers who will use this planner for school assignments and after school activities as well.
I purchased this planner from Amazon when it went on clearance sale. I felt it was well worth the clearance purchase price when I purchased it online from Amazon for under $15. However I do not feel the quality was worth the full retail sales price of $29.99.
With the retro themed cartoons, graphics and stickers, adults- "grown", "mature" and older women born in the 70s, as well as the younger generation will appreciate the vintage styled telephones, cassette tapes, roller skates and depictions of antique black vinyl records. Familiar memorabilia will allow older career women reminisce and relive their youth, while allowing teens, young career women and college students, to daydream of the vintage 1980s. For some reason, the 80s has the effectiveness in sales to the bridge the age gap across the generations in marketing any product from clothing to office products. Looks can be deceiving, this planner is great for people of all ages, not just those who are young!
mature women born in the 70s will appreciate the colorful, simple, line drawings of vintage cord styled telephones, cassette tapes, roller skates, vintage styled bikes, and old black vinyl records that require a record player. The simple stickers of dream catchers, mushrooms, vintage coin purse, coffee cups and mixers will appeal to the baby boomer women. These familiar memorabilia will allow women to reminisce and relive their 80s youth as they fill their busy schedules. While appealing to older women, the colorful art will draw in the younger customers who will use this planner for school assignments and after school activities as well.The cover is sturdy and will hold up after wear and tear from daily use. The golden toned coils are a nice, sophisticated touch. The matte pages work well with any pen or pencil. Nevertheless, the pages reminded me of ordinary photo -copy paper. There are many additional fun features included to break up the monotony of even the most boring of any eight hour work or school day. There is a holographic storage pocket. However, the pocket is thin like cellophane which gives it a crinkly nostalgic party like feeling. The press and seal mechanism seems flimsy as well. Included in the pocket are small colorful post it notes which are bright, cheerful as well as very useful. There is also a decorative postcard as well. There are six pages of stickers. They are themed based on season and other themes. The art is cheerful. Nevertheless, the colors are basic as if from a photocopier for an overall retro theme. The color tones are faded as well. The stickers are matte and thin, not at all like the traditional glossy stickers you might expect. This fits in well with the paper texture of the planner. The stickers also include a lot of small, filler, scrap type stickers that could be used for "bullet" styled note-taking and highlighting events or notes. This will appeal to scrap-bookers especially. Be careful to allow for time and working space when using these, when actually used, these tiny geometric stickers are very thin and are for fine detailed intricate designs for those who care to take the time to really designs their planners. However I did not find these microscopic sticker shards useful. These were more like sticker scraps with no actual use or purpose. In actuality, when used for the planner, I found these small sized pieces of sticky paper made a huge mess. I wound up throwing them all into the trash in frustration, as they all became stuck to my fingers rather than onto the paper. Personally, I found them to be useless filler and feel they should be omitted from the sticker package altogether as they are useless. I found that there were many other stickers that were pretty ambiguous and seemed to serve no other purpose other than as filler. Out of all the sheets of stickers, I would say a small handful of the printed stickers were actually useful. The remainder were simply scrap type of stickers or simply an abundance of repetitious "To Do" or "Don't Forget" or "Let's eat" stickers which served little purpose.
Overall, I enjoyed this planner, but was but was underwhelmed by the overall quality. While many features were impressive, I felt that some features did not meet my expectation. My particular planner came with a publishing defect in the cover. I did not notice it until I started using it. The cover was misaligned when fitted with the coils. The top edge of the cover tore off due to the misalignment. It is a very minor issue only affecting the tip upper left corner near the corner. Considering I paid the clearance price and had already been using the planner, I was not upset. Had I paid full price I would have returned the planner for an exchange. Nevertheless for the clearance price, I felt satisfied with this planner. I feel the quality is what I expect from independent publishing houses. Having worked with independent publishing companies/ self publishers, I know the comparisons with self publishers in contrast to more established publishing companies. I feel those who opt to pay the full retail price for Pipsticks Workmans Planners will set themselves up to be underwhelmed and not too happy with the quality for the price they have paid. True, this planner was filled with the unexpected, but the quality could have been a little better for the full retail price. For those waiting for the 2020 planner, its worth the wait for for the clearance sale.
