BetterNote Cleaning Plan Refill for Discbound Notebook, Daily and Weekly Lists, 6 Month Supply, Fits Happy Planner, Levenger Circa, Staples Arc, TUL (9-Disc, 7"x9.25")

I ordered the BetterNote Cleaning Schedule Kit for my 9-Disc Happy Planner (Classic size). This was my first purchase of any product from Natalie Rebecca Design. I had never heard of this company until I did a search for cleaning schedules to fit my Happy Planner and came upon these. I'm so tired of cleaning schedules that assume we all clean in the same way and give you simple lists with check boxes. I find the Weekly Cleaning Schedule pages sold by Happy Planner themselves to be useless for my purposes. They allow no flexibility.My kit arrived within 2 days, and I am so pleased with the quality of the paper it's printed on and everything that's contained in the kit. Aside from the weekly cleaning pages that I needed, it has "bonus pages" called This Week that can be used for any purpose you like. They are blank pages that include a lined section for "notes + ideas," a box for "my goals," and a "don't forget" box on one page, and then the facing page has boxes for Monday thru Friday set up vertically down the page and a column labeled "thinking ahead" that runs the length of the daily boxes. These pages will be very useful for planning. As for the cleaning pages themselves, they're the most useful I've seen so far in my quest to organize cleaning tasks. There's a nice stain removal guide as well as a zone cleaning guide (perfect for maintaining focus if, like me, you tend to run from room to room too much when cleaning) and a "cleaning tips" page with some very helpful and useful methods of making home cleaners, etc. As for the cleaning pages themselves, I love that each page has "daily cleaning" on the front and "weekly cleaning" on the back. Too many cleaning pages are just lists of daily and weekly chores mingled together. The daily pages are the typical things we all do (beds, straightening, wiping counters, trash, etc.), and the weekly pages provide a great room by room breakdown of things to do in each. What I really like is each room breakdown has a few lines where you can write in your own tasks that might not be listed already. There's also a box to check off zone "this week's zone" for deeper cleaning.I'm really looking forward to using these pages and will be checking out some of the other pages offered by this company. I've bought a lot of cleaning schedules over the years and have also made my own, but this kit looks like it'll be the one I settle on for good.

Update 2024BetterNotes Cleaning Plan pages are still the best cleaning pages on the market, IMO. I wasn't planning on writing another review, but I do think it's worth noting that I have repurchased these repeatedly over the years. I also wanted to mention two changes that I do not care for, and I hope that NatalieRebecca will consider going back to the original design.As you can see in the current photo, the Daily Cleaning task list is left justified. This left enough space on the line for me to add a detail where needed that is helpful to me to have written down. As I noted in my first review, flexibility for customization is vital to the usefulness of the product.In the package that I just received, the tasks are centered. This makes it very difficult and messy for me to customize as the available space is reduced to a smaller area on each side of the printed item.The other change has to do with the blank box at the bottom of the same page. This was very useful for notes on a variety of items, which varied from week to week but that I found very helpful to track.Now that space has been significantly reduced with a "tip". Even worse, it's the same tip for the entire 6 months. So, it doesn't seem to have any utility even for new homemakers. So, the reason to reduce the space is lost on me.Natalie Rebecca, this planner was perfect - perfect !!! - before. The changes have made it less so. I really hope you will consider revising it back to its original state.I'm debating whether to change my rating to 4 stars. I think I will work with this a while before I decide, but it makes me sad not to be able to still give a 5+ star rating.==========================I will not begin using these until the end of the month, because I am finishing off a different brand. But I can already see that BetterNote fits my needs better:- Each week is a two-page spread* with weekly/zone on the left and daily on the right. No flipping around.- Because each week is separate, I do not run into problems when there are 5 Mondays in a month as I do with the one I am currently using.- There is lots of room to add custom tasks. This is vital.- Quality of paper is as good or better than what I had been using.- I can buy just cleaning or just meal prep, etc. as needed. Other brands only sells bundled pages half of which I do not need.*Here's what I did for the first and last pages (first page is right hand side only and last page is left side only.) I skipped the first page and started my first week on the first two page spread. The first page will be moved to the end to complete the last two-page spread.

I absolutely love this company! I have been so productive since starting and love the add ons. This is definitely my favorite addition. My only problem is that i just paid almost $20 for 11 weeks of cleaning clecklists. I feel as though that price is a little unreasonable. I will need more, obviously, but will probably wait for the price to drop and make my own until then. I want to support this company because i am thankful for the perfect planner, but I cannot afford the prices. If this pack was $1 per page it would be more fair, or if there were 18 weeks included i would be more willing to repurchase.