July 14, 2008
Farewell, Faithful Friend
A moment of silence, please, for the end of an era. An era marked by two decades of organization, simplicity and perfection. The era of... The Chandler's Assignment Notebook.
Since high school, I have been using this compact, highly functional planner, not only to schedule my activities, but to make to-do lists and shopping lists. It is my Bible. My trusted friend. My secret lover.
"Thank you for your patronage over the last several decades. Unfortunately, Chandler's Inc. has officially been closed for business. We will not be selling the Assignment Notebook or DateBooks in 2008 or beyond. Best of luck and well wishes to all of our past customers."
My GOD, how could they do this to us???
My current Chandler's is dark green and has pirate stickers on it. Last year's was grey with Hello Kitty stickers. There will be no 2008-2009 Chandler's.
At first, I was paralyzed with devastation. How am I going to LIVE?!?!
But then I remembered Anne, who lives and dies by FranklinCovey, so I surfed on over. Because why take time out of my day to drive over to Office Max and see what they have to offer, when I can spend two hours of work time designing my dream organizer online?
Now, I'm not going to go all seven-habits-of-highly-effective-people on you. Mainly because I don't really know what I'd want to be highly effective at. I'm pretty good at the stuff I want to do, and if I can't perform a task effectively, I either make Husband do it or learn to live without it.
But I did buy a binder, some flowery planning pages, and a page-holder. I'm starting small. Like imitation-leather-on-sale small. After using a $12 Chandler's every year since I was a freshman in high school, I can't really justify spending $100 on a leather cover. But I like the one I got. It's faux-patent-leather and shiny! And I will refrain from putting any stickers on it... for as long as I can.
Crap. I'm going to have to change purses when it arrives. I can't very well carry my $70 organizer in my $7 Target purse.
It's reversible!
Comments
You should have shown the side of the purse with the buttons! R.I.P. Chandlers. We loved ye long and knew ye well.
Posted by: sue at July 14, 2008 06:30 PM
I'm getting to that.
Posted by: Wenchie at July 14, 2008 06:44 PM