Let me open up the case. Scott two lovers on the front one right here: 11 right here, then it’s got one on the side. Over here and another one, we need it open here it is I’m reviewing the Pelican case today for knife storage. I think it’s one of the best options for knife storage.
It’s got the pluggable foam so, like I’ve heard of that a few youtubers say you need to use an exacto knife or like a really sharp knife, to cut out this phone. I didn’t have to do that. All’s I did was pluck it all out. You can see it’s, you can just do whatever you want with it. Oh yeah for bigger knives. I did three up and down. I did it. There’s 14 across 14 spaces for knives, and I did one row big and then all these little and then one more row big, then another, then more little ones.
What I do this as I plucked out everything in the top and bottom layer here, is one layer I’ll get a popular knife to put up against it. The leak, that’s just one layer. You have two layers of foam to do whatever you want. Here’s the second layer, so you got two layers of possible foam. I plopped out the bottom one so that you could so that I don’t every time I get a new knife I don’t have to. I don’t have to take all my knives out.
If I just get one knife and left the pluck out a new piece, every time use the bottom layer. It’s just protective. It’s not pluggable can’t put that it’s just a safety, a little safety Matt. This will fit pretty much any knife that you’ll have. I mean I don’t, I know the spiral. Military is a big knife, I don’t know without fit in here, because I don’t own it, but I’m guessing that it would. If you have this normal knives, they all fit really good like this leak read when I put it in one of these holes just drops to the bottom.
I have to go down there and dig it out. So it’s pretty deep, I’m not sure the exact dimensions, but I’m guessing it’s around. Seven eight inches deep, but you probably like. Well, I don’t want my knives dropping to the bottom every time. Every time I put my knives in there, so what I did was I kept every piece of foam that I plucked out here. I kept all the foam that I plucked out and I put it in a target bag and put it in my closet.
So when I get a new knife, if it’s, if it sinks to the bottom of the hole, I can customize it so that it fits the depth wise for any knife. Excuse me: yeah. You got to pluggable layers, I’m pretty sure it will fit any knife. This is the big 1600 version. I think it’s just a little bit deeper than the 1500 and it’s a lot bigger than the 1500 case, and I just didn’t won’t have to buy another case. So I went ahead and got the bigger one.
It’s pretty much all I got to say about it. It comes with if, when you open the box, there’s an envelope that, like you, can get your name engraved and instead of this being there it’ll be a nameplate or whatever you want to put on there. So they’ll just take this out and put in your name plate that they make I’m going to do that. I costly, I think it costs around ten fifteen dollars. Another thing has: is that pressure with automatic pressure release valve? I don’t know if it says it.
You know just join you in Pelican case, but it’s the pressure release automatic pressure release valve. I guess it just equalizes the pressure like if you have this case on an airplane which I will never have on an airplane because it’s got knives in it but yeah. I can show you how a few knives sit in here for the blur I didn’t have to. I don’t have to customize. It will just fit fit in any of these, just because it’s big enough to where it doesn’t sink to the bottom, but it will, if I keep pushing it’ll go deeper, but it won’t see because of that.
I guess that really grippy. So I didn’t really have to put any phone. The bottom of that. That’s all I got to say about the Pelican case, so really good opt in a story knives to get here. The the latches are really loud and just dirty and you can put a lock on it. There’s two places for a walk i’m going to. I might do that sometimes so, if my friends are over, but that’s all I got ta say about that.
Let me show you all my knives, my collection update after Christmas, i’m going to show you all the knives that you might have already seen in my other articles. Kershaw blur cryo the leak Scout, you that’s it for Kershaw. I think reason i’m doing this. Article now is because I didn’t want to do a article right after Christmas, where I’m still like really excited about the knives I got, but i’m still excited about them.
But when you first get a knife, you’re going to tell a bunch of lies, but how much you like in sup all right? Oh my gos group tell you next. I did a review on this and I knocked it for its detent. I tightened it up a little bit. It’s just now, it’s hard to it’s hard to flick out. I knew that was going to be a problem if I tightened it. If I tighten it anymore, it’s even hard to get how manual. I just don’t find myself carrying this knife.
Very often, oh I’ll keep it. I like it need another benchmade, the benchmade volley. I did a review on this knife as well, and another nice you’ve already seen or the last night that you’ve already seen. I guess the spyderco sage, one yeah, that’s all that’s what I had when I started then after Christmas. Let me show you the new knives that I’ve got ok I’ll start with Kershaw. I got three new curse or four new Kershaw was again.
I got another leak. I wanted a leak with a plain edge, cam razor sharp here it is next to the other one. I wanted a plain edge because I don’t really love serrations and this was a gift and I I really I really like Kershaw serrations, but I still want a plain edge. Kershaw’s, like the only serrations that I can stand. Yeah I got another leak. I got the skyline really popular knife. This knife is not assisted.
I actually like it not assisted it’s really smooth. It’s got this comfortable choil. Here, it’s really comfortable be doing reviews on all my new knives. Probably not this one I’ll be doing a review on the leak. I haven’t reviewed it yet, but sometime soon I will – and I got the Kershaw piston look like this. I have to it’s got the blur same as the blur thumb, studs and a flipper. So I like that night to run out of room in my last new kershaw is the Kershaw knockout, with the sub-frame lock, where we use coming and I got two new spider goes: got the ladybug with h1 steel, rust proof, meeting, sicky city.
I got this knife to go fishing and whenever I’m around water I’ll carry this knife, I really like it for how little it is. It’s really comfortable with the finger choil and the thumb thumb rape. One of my new spider goes in my last new knife that I have the main x2 lightweight. I’m really excited about this knife. This knife is only 3 ounces and for how big of a blade – that is, it’s a superb some great knife to carry.
I love the Y, your pocket clip like the ball, lock the ball bearing lock or whatever. It is still kind of hard to do that. I really like the handles handle scale at night. Sometimes it like, if you’re in low light, it looks black, it doesn’t even look blue yeah. That’s all I’ve got for you guys, show you all my new knives. The review of the Pelican case do a close-up yep thanks for reading guys.
Knives and daggers are awesome! Plain and simple, right? Let me say, I enjoy my dagger collection with a little music playing in the background.
This is where i’m going to hold the bushcraft meet up at and i’ll. Do a give you our tour as soon as I can, but there’s all those buildings down there, there’s an old general store or old church old one school, one-room, school building, trapper’s cabin, all sorts of stuff, but um and there’s harmony hall.
That house was built in 1768 and is still standing. There’s a cabin over there that cabin used to have a family of nine people living in it and they would come outside to go up the ladder to the loft and that’s where they slept. But when we do the bushcraft meet up out here, people can can’t be anywhere out here in the woods. They won’t anywhere right here on the property they want. We’ll have tomahawk throwing contest on them.
Targets over there, see them and knife-throwing contest. There’s the bathroom right. There, if I could give you our tour in there cuttin, there are there’s all kind of stuff out here. The winds going to be blowing real hard today, so I don’t know how good this is going to pick up my voice. We got picnic tables all out around all around, but um the property goes on back way. On back so I mean there’s no shortage of space to count plenty plenty of space to kill them.
We’re going to have a ball out here y’all. I hope everybody can make it show you inside the bathroom here you got the sink. If you need to wash up kind of tall it over there. We do have a heater in here. It will be warm in here. You know. The dates are the 23rd. 24Th. 20 fear hold on. Let me look at my phone. While I tell you our baits later. Let me pull it up, but um I’ll get back with y’all later and check on I’ll.
Show you right here what I’m doing them cooking some deer stew. All of this is homemade. Deer stew got a lot a lot of meat in it. A lot of carrots, a lot of potatoes, celery, onion filled up with beets buck beef broth and it’s going to be great anyway eat some. But we do that because today’s decoration day they’re going to decorate the house for Christmas, but um this whole place right here. Y’All, it ain’t nothing but history all out in the woods their their stuff that we’re still finding.
I found a foundation out there years ago that nobody knew about, and you figure back in the war days or 1768 when he built this house there. What no rolled out here this was actually the back of the house, which we look at this, like it’s the fun of the house, but this was the actual back of the house and there’s a path over there. That goes to the Cape Fear River, and that was their means of transportation was the river.
So I’m a lot a lot of history out here man. I love it that right there. That you’re, looking at in front of me, is the blacksmith’s shop. We do have a blacksmith out here from time to time. This is where it works, when the I probably can’t see did in their kids too dark. But the play does all this blacksmithing from lots of history. I love history, but on this is going to be from Thursday it’ll be Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the last Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of februari.
If you need more information, I’m going to put my contact information in the description, email me and I’ll tell you anything. You need to know its twenty dollars per person per head. Children are free adults, its twenty dollars per head and all the money goes to Harmony Hall to help him restore a shin and keeping the place up and all that. But we got a big stage over there. If anybody wants to get on stage and play that guitar and sing, they do that sometimes out here they have a bluegrass Pamela.
I don’t know if y’all can see it through the woods over there, but there’s stage right out there, but when we do reenactments out here we camp all over the place. You know we have those pup, tents or whatever we bring, but i’ll tell you all more later, hey y’all still out here cooking, as my sister tammy she’s out here with me. My niece Nicky is up there, helping them decorate the house zoom in for you.
I can see that sorry about the wind, but we’re having a good time out here, decoration day, show y’all what the stews looking like falling. Looking good we’re using a homemade stare need all that mean we’re going to have a ball out here and that’s going to be good. I can’t wait to eat it, smells so good or make your mouth water, but um we get back with your mum. Give you all a tour or a small tour, just show you the buildings here, I’m going to go all the way down there and work my way back up, but um I’ll get back with y’all, then hey again, folks I’ll show y’all.
This is a thing that I won from Donnie Pavel Eenie outdoors y’all check them out. If you can text them out already. This is a whole little cook kid all you need is the canister. If the Camp Chef Mountain series, striker special coffee, watery, just put it on while ago, I already got bubbles in it, but I want to show you all that keep back with y’all ready, hey folks. This is the beginning of Harmony Hall right here.
This is an old general store and I’ll give you our tour through that one y’all get here for the bushcraft meetup walk down and show you everything. That’s here over there we got what’s called wonders cottage, but they’re actually written that out to somebody. So we can’t go there, somebody’s ringing, the bell just give you all quick, look at all the buildings here that building right over there that’s old, trapper’s cabin – I don’t know if that’s going to be where we can go through it or not, it’s got to be Holding the roof right now, but everything out here is so historic.
It’s amazing! You got the trapper’s cabin there over here. Next to it, you got the one-room schoolhouse zoom in on that feel back there you got an outhouse old, outhouse, sorry for all the shake and I’m walking while I’m talking over there. We have a history class here, that’s decorating everything for Christmas. That’s the one room! Schoolhouse i’ll be giving y’all a tour through there, here’s the old church over there.
I want me to undo there, let’s get back with y’all when I get to the next limo over here this house it in very, very historic. I think I actually think it’s a 1970s house, I’m not sure, but it’s going to be a lot of fun out here. I got through doing the deer stew and everybody loved it. That was great, but on the bushcraft meet up i’ll, be doing deer stew and hopefully deer steaks too. I’m sure other people bring food too.
That’s just an old house. There ain’t much to it over there. We have another general store. All these buildings were brought here. They’re just historic buildings and they brought them here, made this kind of like a park. The only original building here is the harmony hall plantation house, but it’s so unique. If you love history, there’s the other old jar store right there. That’s the Tatum store should be able to give you our tour through there too.
I walk up here, we’ll get back by the way when y’all get here. Y’All can camp out here in this field. If you want camping the woods back there by the house, if you want there’s all sorts of places you can camp out it, they have plenty of room for, as many people wants to come, won’t be no shortage of spots to count. Here’s the Harmony Hall sign. This is like a little security cabin here, it’s a gatehouse and over here you got this one.
I camped out inside that this one before when it was 17 degrees out here when we was doing a reenactment, but this is the butler barn got, can pause it and read that real nice. I love it out here to come out here and feel like you’re walking in the 1700s about what it feels like. This is the blacksmith shop. He might even come out here while we’re out here. I’m not sure we do have one blacksmith. It’s been a little grandson, Evan Mickey my niece sister Tammy where’s Sasha.
She look like Bon Jovi rocky up here we got the Harmony Hall house limping off history club up there decorating, then there’s the one more Kevin over there. Nine people lived in that cabin I’ve. Already said that or not that’s, it will be camping all out here, all through the woods all over here. There’s a fire pit back there and another fire pit up here before I cook. The stew today cut the one bathroom over there and it does have a heater in it to stay warm over.
Here we got the tomahawk throwing targets and knife, throwing whichever you want to throw. This is where we’ll have to contest that and I’ll have some kind of prizes, i’m not sure what yet I used to come out here all the time with all the time I hope they’re fun, but that’s about it. I’m in the path down to the Cape Fear River, so y’all make sure you mark this on your calendars and come on out. I hope to see all y’all are here.
I know I’ll be here for sure. If y’all know briar goat killer he’ll be here and little man, his son, Donny Pavel Amy’s, working on trying to get here, you don’t know if he will or not and Mike where’s from absorb self-reliance he’s trying to get here. So y’all marketer encounter and come on out hope to see either y’all take care.
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This is another fun planner review. These are for the lie in the planner. This one is the daily Edition six months, and then this is the weekly Edition for 12 months they’re, both in black, I haven’t even taken them out of the packaging. Yet I just got these sent to me by Lion planner. All the thoughts and opinions are my own. They sent these to me for consideration only that’s all I do on my blog, because if I end up filming a article, I want to make sure that all of the thoughts and comments are truly my own, and I want to give an honest review of it.
So, let’s get into this, so I just got this bad boy, this one’s a little bit thicker, and this one, if you guys, can see the difference when they reached out to me. I actually looked on their page and you know was talking about the differences between the two and all of that, and then I was like well it’d, be kind of cool to see both of them and they’re like okay, we’re going to send you both. You can do like a little side-by-side comparison.
Okay, so anyway, I’m more of a person that likes a whole year in a planner. To be honest, but I know there are people out there that definitely, you know like just a six month planner. So let’s look at the six month, planner first and I put this one off to the side. So it’s like a faux leather. It’s got this really nice embossed lion on there. I don’t know if you guys can see it. It’s black on black so so hard to see, and then my viewfinder is like teeny tiny.
So I can never tell. But it’s got this nice elastic closure. It’s got like a little pen loop, so you can loop in a pen or something like that over there and then also it has on the bottom. If you can see like little strings for like little page tabs, which is kind of nice, so you open it up, you can take this little thing off there. Oh, it’s a non dated planner for happier easier and more fulfilling life cool.
It’s eco friendly materials printed on 100 % recycled paper, and this is the compact size I believe when I was looking. There were two separate sizes, but both of these it looks like are in the compact size. I think there’s one that’s just a little bit larger than this. So anyway, okay, you open it up. So it’s got all the in from like a little information page, we can put your contact information and then it’s got like the little lion over here and the line over here.
So this paper is like really thick in the front here: oh wow, okay hold on. Let’s take a look at this, I, like legit, have not opened this. I have like no idea what to expect okay and that says, by using the lion planner, you can increase your productivity, get organized and manage your daily time achieve work-life balance. Achieve your goals live a more fulfilling a happier. Life get focused, put yourself.
First challenge yourself, look at the big picture and stay positive, okay cool, so it’s kind of just giving you like a layout of some things. You can do and things like that. I don’t know just kind of interesting cool all right, so then we have 2018 and 2019 and then it has printed here, the u.S. Holidays in 2018 and then the u.S. Holidays in 2019. And then it has like a kind of like a notes, page thing or it says the beginning: what are your biggest goals and dreams that you want to achieve during these six months? You can kind of put it there and then I’m grateful for affirmations and then there’s just a blank vision board and then here is your monthly section of the lion planner.
Oh, this is kind of weird. Oh there we go cool all right so, like I said it is undated, so it doesn’t have like little sticker cover ups. This is like a pretty bare-bones like basic planner, where all the examples it looked like we’re shown just using a pen like up here. You can definitely decorate anything. Obviously, so it doesn’t have like little sticker cover-ups. But what you do is you just kind of like write in you know your dates so clearly you can have this be any month, you’d like it.
So it has like a little date thing right here and it says goals for this month. Reward, if achieved so save, I don’t know you want to buy yourself something or treat yourself to something. I don’t know whatever. I’ve got a little quote here from Steve Jobs. Oh I see I was like what is it these H’s for H means habit. So look if you want to drink a certain amount of ounces of water a day or workout every day or whatever, then you can like either check that off or color it in or something.
And then it says I will lead or do something new this month and it has one and two and then this is personal plan top priorities and then professional plan a top priorities and then over here it says endless discoveries. This might be a little bit more difficult to see over here, but this is. It looks like like graph paper kind of down here. It’s like a bunch of little dots, so yeah, that’s kind of cool and then alright, so the monthly review.
It’s got some information, more monthly review, so it said it just asks you like a bunch of questions about your month and kind of how to move forward. So it says, did you manage to achieve your goals this past month? If yes describe the results, if no, what did you need to do for better results next time, this one says: did you learn or did you do something new in this past month? If yes describe it, what are the best things that happened to you this past month, either in your personal life or professional life? To what or who are you especially grateful for this past month? What is holding you back? What do you need to do to change the circumstances? Did you learn any lessons this past month? How will they help you in the future and then how do you feel about this past month and why and then you move into your next month.
So it’s all kind of the same. Actually, I feel like this would be really good for like goal setting at like work and a professional environment, because it just like makes you look at stuff or even like this might be like really weird, but I feel like this would be good for, like a Relationship if you’re like married or you’re like seriously dating someone or something like that, you know, if you guys have like I mean I’m clearly, not in a relationship or like married, but I mean, if you were like dating someone seriously or in that in a marriage Or something – and you guys wanted to like achieve goals together as like a family or as just a couple, it’d be kind of cool to like write these things down just to like keep track of stuff, I mean I don’t know, I don’t know, don’t take advice From me, but um I don’t know it’s just like something different to think about and then okay.
So here is your weekly section now and then okay. So here are your weekly pages, so it says day and date and that says weekly success and then insights gained and then left over from the past week. So like clearly tasks or things you have to do. And that says this week’s plan and says this week will be great because and then it has a bunch of lines and then this week’s goals, one through four things to avoid personal to-do list, one through five and then top priorities, one through six and then projects.
One through four and then there’s a passion project down here, so it looks like that is how the weekly pages are set up. To be honest, this probably isn’t like my jam. I am more someone that wouldn’t want all of these little things, but if you’re kind of more regimented – and you really like a lot of structure in your planner, this might be something for you. But for me I like to kind of like do what I want when I want, but this would be really kind of a cool thing for someone that likes a lot of structure.
So all the weekly pages are exactly the same. That’s the weekly and then now there’s a daily section of the planner as well. So let’s go into that. So it’s got the day and date and it looks like there’s two days on like a fold out so there’s one on this page and one on this page. So this one says exciting things to do today: steps slash actions towards my weekly goals, one through three, the tasks and priorities, one through six notes and ideas, just a blank little box, but it does have like faint grid in there and it says end of the Day, review – and that says today’s winds – and that says best moment from today today’s focus exercise and then schedule.
So this is like an hourly schedule, which you guys know I absolutely love. I I personally use an Erin Condren life planner in the hourly layout. I will leave a link below for you guys if you’re interested in checking out the Erin Condren website as well. As I mean I’m going to leave links below for this as well yeah. This schedule is from 6:00 to 9:00 and you know you can just like block off some of the times, which I think is really nice, and then you’ve got your next day right here.
So this I don’t know, this is just kind of a cool little thing. So, let’s see I mean, obviously all the days are exactly the same and let’s actually pull these guys out. There’s and there’s like two of these, like string, things looks like one, but it’s actually two there’s two. I promise yeah all right. Let’s see what else is back here, if anything who knows this is I’m learning too y’all, I’m learning too.
So it looks if this is the last daily page. So let’s go into this little section here, alright, so this says final review of these last six months. All right, so it has a bunch of questions for you as well. It says: did you manage to achieve your biggest monthly goals or dreams during these past six months? If yes describe the results, if not, what do you need to do to improve and achieve them? Next time – and it says what are the best things that happened to you during these past six months – even either in your personal life or professional life, to what or who are you especially grateful for during these past six months? And it says what were the biggest lessons you learned during the last six months, and how do you feel about these past six months and why so that’s kind of cool and then over here are just a bunch of notes pages and it just says notes: ideas Journal memories, discoveries, so there are a couple of pages back here for this in case you want to like note something down.
Ok, so that’s all lined paper. This is all that dot grid paper, but it’s really really faint. It’s really difficult to see even like to my naked eye right now, so I can’t imagine what its going to be like on camera and then um that is it oh cool! Look at this there’s like stuff back here: okay, alright! So then, back here there are some stickers. Oh that’s the wrong way. Emily um there’s like some little airplanes.
There is like some laundry stickers, some grocery carts, some like important stickers. Let’s see here, this looks like documents movies, like a nurse or a doctor, and then you’ve got like workout money and then gifts. So that’s really cool. This comes with it so like clearly, you could use this on any of your days and then there’s like a no. No, it’s like a little pocket back here, yeah a little pot.
Oh it’s as it was designed in Boston, but printed in China. Neat all right! So, anyway, put all this stuff back all right. There we go so that is it for the oh and then on the back. It has embossed as well and printed in this, it says, lie in a planner, so very, very cool and it looks like this could get dented a little easy mine came with like a little divot. I don’t know if it’s like you can’t. You can kind of see it on the viewfinder a little bit.
It came with a little divot on it, and this is actually creating a little bit of a tiny divot right there, but clearly you’d. Have it close. So I mean I know: a lot of people in the planner world are a little bit specific. So you know, if that’s not your jam, then that’s okay, too, but yeah, but the spine looks pretty good and everything so yeah. Why don’t you take a peek at the weekly edition and this one is a twelve month planner, I’m not sure what the difference is going to be.
Clearly it’s a thickness difference, but I’m just assuming that the daily pages are taken out of this. I’m not really sure, though, again with the last one. You have the elastic band right here. Also an elastic pen, holder right there you’ve got your Lian as well as oh there’s, three little guys all right. Well, this one. There are three little ribbons which is kind of cool, and then this one says it is the lion planner weekly edition twelve months non, dated planner for happier easier and more fulfilling life, eco-friendly materials printed on a hundred percent recycled paper, and this is the compact size.
So let’s take this out alright, so just like the first planner this says like your information page and all that good stuff and that’s got you know more layouts and things like that. It has the same exact thing over here by like using your planner. You can get more organized and achieve your goals and blah blah blah. You know all that good stuff over here. It also has the same calendar with holidays for 2018 and 2019, and then this one just says the beginning, and it has a bunch of lines and says what are your your league goals and dreams that you would like to achieve this year, and it has all The same stuff so far, and then it’s got your monthly once again.
I think let’s actually do like a side-by-side. I’m pretty sure that all of this is exactly the same, but I just you know, don’t quote me on it, because I don’t want you all to be like Emily. You didn’t even pay attention. That’s not exactly the same blah blah okay, so it is slightly different. Alright, so let’s look at this, so if we look at these kinda together, the differences are actually at the bottom.
So let’s do this, so this is the thicker one which is the six month planner. It has this little section here that says I will learn or do something new this month and then it says personal plan and professional plan. This one here, which is the one I’m looking at now, which is the 12-month doesn’t have that little box right there, but it has personal plan and professional plans, there’s only a little difference there in the printing.
Also, these are exactly the same. It’s just kind of like your monthly review and yes, all the other pages are the same. So let’s get into the next section wherever that may be oh cool all right, so this is very different than the other one like I was saying before in this one. When you get to those weekly pages, it just clearly isn’t. For me, it’s like too much structure and the six-month one, but here in the 12 month one this is kind of like right up my alley.
This is an hourly. You know it’s undated still, but it has. You know like a little section where you can put the dates and then it says today’s focus all across the top, and then it goes from six to nine there’s a date right here. So you could put in like the dates of the week, the weeks goals, notes, personal to-do lists, professional to-do list and then endless discoveries with a little doctorate as well.
So when we go Sunday through Saturday, I actually got a question just recently like this is like a little bit of a tangent, but I had a question just recently like why? Don’t they have planners that have Sunday through Saturday on the weekly spread? Because when you go into the monthly spreads they’re all Sunday through Saturday – and it was like really bothering somebody and I’m like you know – I don’t know – I haven’t ever seen a weekly spread like this – that isn’t Monday through Sunday.
So this is kind of interesting. So here, if you’re really wanting something that’s Sunday through Saturday, this might be up your alley. So anyway, all of the weekly pages are the same, and I think that would probably be it okay and then at the back. There is also the same review questions and this is a yearly, so it’s got the word year in it versus the last six months and then it has all these notes pages as well, so bunch of notes, pages and then yeah.
This has a bunch of dot grid pages as well. Okay, so, let’s see are there any stickers in this one? You know me guys. I, like my stickers, oh yeah, there is a little sheet of stickers, okay, cool and it’s the same sheet as the other one cool nice, and then I’ve got these guys. Let’s bring these out so this one, I’m not sure why, but this one has three little ribbons versus the other. One has two cool all right, and this has some of the same, like outer issues that I was talking about before, where clearly this has been sitting.
You know like this for a little while, and so it’s you know, kind of denting it just a little bit, but nothing that would like really bother me. Oh on the back. It still has the embossed lion planner right there, so yeah I mean I think. Overall, this is a really neat. I know a lot of people are probably wondering how the paper quality is, and I am going to do a little pen test right now. I’m actually going to do my pen test on the sixth month planner, but I’m going to do it and the very very back, not the last page, because the last page is very different than the other pages.
So I’m actually going to do it on one of these notes pages which I think will be good um, just right off the bat. The paper feels nice. It’s like pretty, I don’t know kind of silky feeling, but it’s not like really gritty. I don’t know how to like describe it, but we’re going to do a little pen test, so let me assume y’all in so we can take a peek together and actually mmm. I want to do it on the last page yeah.
I think I will do it on the last page. Here’s what I’m going to do. This is like the regular paper. This is not the regular paper. This is like cardstock, I’m going to do my pen test right here. So then we can like kind of flip back and forth and look at like shadowing and things like that. I am going to use my blue pens that I typically like to use for pen testing. I will leave links down below for all of the different pens that I am using here and I’m not going to use any just regular ballpoint pens, because those don’t bleed through typically.
But I am going to be using like some gel pens and markers and things like that. Let’s get you zoomed in a little bit more here we go alright, so first up is going to be my paper. Mate ink joy, gel pen in the O, 7, and next up is going to be the jelly roll. Oh eight in the blue. I also will have a Navy coming up as well. My favorite jelly roll is the Navy and it’s just I don’t know I just like the color of it a lot better, but it’s still the same in the O.
8. I don’t know, do you guys feel like that’s really satisfying? I don’t know. I feel like this is super-sized, I think, to write with next up. We have the Erin Condren dual tip markers, and I am going to be writing with the fine point first and then I’ll be writing with the medium point. My camera just stopped on me as I was writing, but yeah there we go. There’s that one and then next up is the papermate Flair, and this one is the lip pen, this one’s really satisfying, also to write with.
If you like, a really really really fine point and then I have a micron in an O 3, which I’ve said this before several times, I don’t really like this at all, but I do keep it because I have stuff to pen test all the time. So it’s nice to see if it like shadows and stuff, but I will still link it down below for you guys. I don’t know the way I write with it. I don’t like the way that my hand writes with the microns.
That’s just me and then last but not least, we have the pilot ultrafine point permanent marker, so those are all the pens I’m going to be a testing today. So let’s take a peek at the backside and see what y’all think every time I put it up like this everyone’s like, oh, I can see shadowing on everything. I think the real test is when you lay it down properly like this, because you know when it’s up you’re going to see light that I already have in my home going through this.
So when you lay it down like this and let’s actually zoom you all in not out, let’s go in here, we go okay. So what I’m? Seeing with my eye and not the viewfinder, is I’m seeing the Erin Condren one in the medium point, it’s kind of popping through, as I like, stopped letters and then the only other one that I see that would like bother me personally. Is this one here, which is the pilot ultrafine point permanent? To be honest, I probably would never write with this in a planner just on itself, but it’s not totally horrible.
So this paper is actually quite nice. I mean there’s little shadowing to the naked eye, but, to be honest I mean everything is going to shadow just a little bit, but you know if you’re getting like really specific, you do see it, but it’s not bad. So I think that this could work with. Basically, you know any of these, but I would say to just steer clear of using the air and contract Erin Condren dual tip in the medium.
It does kind of pop through a little bit and then that pilot ultrafine point. I’m kind of surprised that the micron didn’t pop through but hey to each their own right, that’s pretty cool alright, so that is it for the first impression of the lion planner the weekly edition in the 12 months and the daily edition in the six months. Again, I will leave links to everything down below if you are interested in checking them out.
If there’s a planner out there that you guys are interested in me doing a first impressions or pen testing or any of that on leave it down below. And let me know I would be very, very curious, but that’s it for me. I thank you guys so much for hanging out and I will see y’all in my next article bye guys well, folks is time to kick it old school
As you see, I have a big old erin condren box in front of me. We are going to be doing a first impressions on some of the things that are inside here, so I’m very excited to get started shout out to the Erin Condren team for sending me all the goodies that are inside of here today. We’re going to be talking mainly about the Erin Condren academic planner.
Things have changed a sense last year and I actually did a review and first impressions on the one last year. I believe it was, and I will link that up in a card for you guys, but let’s get this big box out of the way and then we’ll move on from there. This was in the bottom of the box. I don’t know what this is for, but oh you know what I do know what this is for we’re going to just leave that right there so anyways.
First things: first, when you get your lovely box from Erin Condren, they always have a little postcard. That has a really nice quote on it, and it says whatever you are be a good one and then my favorite thing is these little guys. They are really nice gift label tags or just anything tags it always says enjoy they usually are these like scalloped adhesive stickers? Well, clearly, stickers are adhesive Emily, oh man, it says to and from I’ve used these before, for giving away like candy or baked goods to like co-workers, our neighbors or friends, or something like that and just put it on like a little cell, Oh bag.
I love these. I think these are awesome and that it comes wrapped in a navy tissue paper and has the signature Erin Condren enjoy on the side here. So let’s open this guy up – and I don’t really talk about this too often but like I got ta say I love their packaging just because I have rarely gotten anything – that’s been damaged if you guys are interested in my Erin Condren playlist I’ll link it up In a card and down below for you guys very rarely do I get anything that’s actually damaged because they have such nice like packing on their stuff.
So anyway, this is all the good stuff. So let me take all this like packaging away and then we’ll talk about it. Alright, so I want to talk about everything at one by one and then we’ll get to the planner at the very end. These are the designer note card set they’re fifty aligned, three by five and note cards with a binder ring, which is this bad boy right here, and I did see some people on the interwebs talk about these and I thought these are just really unique and neat.
So it has the woven, wonder pattern, and this is one of those like erasable things like you, can use one of those markers on here and then on. The backside, there’s also like aligned, but it’s like a laminated one. So that’s really cool and then there’s also a back as well, and then you’ve got all your note cards and they all have the hole punch in them, which is pretty unique and neat. And I really really like that, and then you can just put this all together.
If I can do it right there we go. I need a little strength in the morning. I haven’t had my like caffeination yet and there you go, that’s what it looks like. So you can take notes if you’re doing a speech or, if you’re just you know wanting to take notes on a certain topic or subject or something. But you know I feel like this would be good, even if you aren’t a student and next off. I got these.
I have been hearing lots of things about them. I wanted to see them in person they’re the 12-page flags. They are all different colors and they have a little asterisk on them. I kind of was in the same boat of everyone else, where I really hoped that these would be like several of them and one like they’re, very, very, like I don’t know thick, isn’t the right thick is the right word, but they’re very glossy they’re, like a Permanent adhesive, I really wish that these were like the removable adhesive ones that, like you, know, 3m makes and stuff, because I think that would be amazing because I use those all the time.
But I mean these are really cool, just because I love the Erin Condren little asterisks as well as I love their colorway. So I’m not sure what I’m going to be using these for, but I think I will have some sort of project that will come up and well. I will use these, but again, I wanted to see them in person, and I just thought that I could use them in some way in all my planning systems. Next up is this snap-in dashboard.
That also has the woven, wonder, pattern on it and it has in foiled top priorities and then like a little checklist and then I have and then a little checklist down here and then let me open this up because there’s always fun things on the back, usually And then, let’s see yeah on the back side, it’s got Monday through Sunday, so you could put in like a meal plan or two dues or anything like that.
Also with that woven wonder pattern, which is like one of my favorite things now and of course no Erin Condren box would be it complete without sticky note, so I thought that this would be great to put in this box just because I always am running low On these sticky notes, for whatever reason I got to say, I’ve had a lot of questions on my Instagram and on my facebook as to the adhesiveness of some of the ones in the years past.
I hear you, but these ones, the new ones, the woven wonder and the teacher ones that I have sitting over here right now. These are not part of this haul, but I do have them sitting over here. These have a great adhesive stickiness to them. They don’t leave a film on your page, at least what I have noticed with the ones that I’ve gotten, but they don’t like curl up as much these ones, the new ones.
So I think that they improved some of their adhesives. I’m very very excited about that. So I just keep buying the same patterns like over and over and over and over, but I just absolutely love this pattern anyway, and I really like all of the different sizes and shapes of these notes. Next up is this designer sticker book. I know if you guys have been reading me for a little while you have seen this in a couple of months back, but I did decide to get a new one.
It’s got lots of different stickers sheets and it’s got like transparent stickers and just like regular stickers too, which I absolutely love. But this is the new sticker book for this year. The 2018-2019 season, so I’m very, very excited about this and link will be below to all the products that I’m talking about. And lastly, let’s talk about this little bundle set before we get into the planner.
This was, I think it was like called, maybe like the writing, utensil bundle. Actually, let me look it up, because you know I’m not good at things sometimes. Ah, here it is it’s the writing, essentials bundle and, as of me filming this, this is on sale for $ 25. You do get a little bit of a discount when you buy some of the bundles. So if you actually search like erin condren and like the sale tab, there’s a bunch of different bundles available.
Alright, so here are all the things that are in writing essentials bundle. This is what I was kind of talking about. These wet erase markers you could put on here and then, when they dry down, they don’t come off, but then you can just take like a little baby, wipe or actually just throw it under water and it’ll all come off with pretty good ease. But I love these things and these are the fine tip ones they do also have like thicker tipped ones.
I believe I’m not sure if they’re still in their website, but I know they’ve had them in years past these. As you know, I absolutely love the dual tip markers, I’m a fan of all of them, but I thought hey. Why not get some of these as well, I’m always looking for a black or a blue. You know what I mean. We’re always looking for that. Also this pencil set – I have never had this particular pencil set before, but it has lots of different things in here.
I think I’ve gotten some pencils in years past from like some of the seasonal surprise boxes, but I don’t think I’ve ever had these particular ones. So it’s got some of the mid-century circles. Oh they already come sharpened, for you that’s kind of cool, so it’s got two mid-century circles, one’s a watercolor and then it has some of the metallic dots. So the pink one has rose gold. The teal one has gold and this purple one has silver and then like up at the top next to their eraser.
It has like the same kind of metallic that it coordinates with so very cool and they’re, just six of them, which I live and then really the reason I wanted this is. I wanted these highlighters. I’ve never had highlighters from Erin Condren before, and I thought you know what I think it’s time to finally do this. I know they’ve had them on there like website for ever, but I’ve just never used them.
I think you know it was just. It was time guys it was finally time to do it, so let’s try it with some Erin Condren paper. I just have this sitting here. This is not part of the hall, but oh that writes nicely. They like feel they feel nice in your hand too. I was kind of worried that they’d be like a little too bulky. You know some highlighters are just like a little too thick, but these feels really nice yeah yep.
I like those those are nice. Oh, I almost forgot to mention these. These are the colorful monthly adhesive tabs. I did get these separately, but they do have like a rose gold like January February March April May June July. You know all that good stuff, because the planner that I received is not tabbed. So I thought that this would be something that I could put on the planner all right. So here is the planner.
It also comes with these colorful date, dots from Erin Condren. This is an undated planner, so they do include this typically with your purchase. I believe that this always comes with it. Don’t quote me on it, but I’m pretty sure it does the undated Nastase it flexible. So you can start and stop your planner at any time. So big changes for this year, if you guys readed my other article, that I linked up in a card earlier, you would have noticed that the other one was bound and what that means is.
It was like a not a hardbound, but it was like a soft bound. It did not have the coil, so it was a little bit different and it also was not as thick, which I am very excited to see. What’s in the guts, so it comes with a coil which is fabulous. These are 7 by 9. They fit the regular 7 by 9 covers. I chose the woven wonder pattern in the white background. I didn’t do any personalization, because I wasn’t a how-to percent sure what I was going to do with this or if I was going to gift this to somebody I wasn’t a hundred percent sure.
So I thought you know what I’m totally down with the woven Wonder. So let’s get the white one, because I love the way that this looks also to let you know that these planners start at $ 35. There is some other detailed customization that you can do, that is additional, but these are $ 35 and when you open this up on the back side is also an opportunity for the wet erase markers to kind of put in a list or something like that.
And then, on the right hand, side it says academic planner, your name school and year, and this is a 12 month planner. I believe that the previous ones that they had were only six months. If I remember right but yeah, I think this looks really nice and the paper quality is the same as the red planners so who have a regular planner. It’s that same mohawk paper that they released last season. So like 2017 2018.
And then, when you open it up, you get right into stuff, so the first page here is projects and exams. Your description, your class, the details, the deadlines, important dates and then there’s like a little check for complete, and that is very satisfying. I think so. There’s three on each page and let’s see there’s a bunch of pages in here all right, so there’s a whole bunch of these. So if you’ve got projects and exams and things you need to study for there’s a bunch of pages and then on this page here.
On the left hand, side is just a nice blank notes, pages and or notes pages. This notes page and then on the right-hand side says what you seek is seeking you and then you get into your first month. This is where your colorful date dots come into. Play so you can write up here what month it is and then also put in your date thoughts. Also, if you don’t like the date dots, you can also just write it in too it’s just kind of up to you and then once you decide what month, this will be so say it’s really an academic year for you and you want to maybe start it In August or September, depending on when your school starts, you could grab one of these little adhesive monthly tabs and put in the coordinating tab on this page.
So then, you knew kind of you know what was going on. So this is very very similar to the Erin Condren life planner, as well as the Erin Condren deluxe monthly planner. However, the only real difference is that at the bottom here there is no coordinating month before the next month because it’s undated, so let’s flip through and see okay perfect. So this is the week of and then you can write whatever you want and then Monday through Friday, in full box form and it has Monday.
And then you know like a smaller box, a bigger box and then to do checklist. And then Saturday and Sunday is a little bit smaller because they all fit on one line down here. That makes sense, so you’ve got one two three four five weeks and then you’ve got two notes: pages that are in the lined and then two more and another one so yeah and then you’re into the next month. So every month it looks like is like that.
So, let’s get into when things change, let’s see, let’s see, alright, I’m almost at the back of the planner. Let’s see, I don’t know if there’s anything extra back here, I don’t think there is. That’s alright, though, cool alright, so I’m at the very back of the planner now after the twelve months and then on the back side over here, it says, arriving at one goal is the start of another and it has some info about Erin Condren.
Oh, this is really cool, so it’s got one sticker sheet back here and it says exam midterm test quiz read paper: do study group study no class and vacation. Then it has some other blank event stickers as well for you and then after this is another one of those covers on the inside. You could use those wet erase markers as well and then on the back. Is my nice little woven wonder pattern so that is a peek inside of the new academic planner for 2018 2019.
It again is undated with no tabs, but I kind of like that idea just because it gives you a lot more flexibility to start and stop your planner whenever you’d like, and I just think this is a really great idea for students out there or anyone that Really likes this particular set up, it could be good for and then also if somebody wants to use this for work, I mean it’s got. You know the week of and then some kind of tasking things and then to do is.
I think this would be great for work as well. I mentioned that in my teacher lesson, planner review – that’s a bigger planner than this – it’s like literally bigger, but that one was a great setup for that as well. But you know this would be wonderful for work projects or work things, and things like that that you want to keep track of as well, if you’re not into any of the Erin Condren life planner layout options, and it’s got lots of notes pages.
So if you have meetings or conferences or things like that, you could take notes – and you know do all that stuff, but yeah I mean. I just think this is a really really neat planner, I’m so glad that they put 12 months in there now rather than six months. But what do you guys think of the planner? I would love to know in the comment down below, but that is going to be it for me today. I thank you guys so much for hanging out with me if you’re interested in anything from Erin Condren, the links are down below for y’all.
Thank you. So much for reading – and I will see y’all in the next one bye guys well folks – is time to kick it old school
2 Zuko shows us that he can make these daggers out of fire and they’re super cool. I wanted some fire daggers when I was kid for sure, but instead of fire daggers. Well, I’m going to be doing today is a review of this kunai dagger that you can get links in the description, but definitely stick around and see how good this is for you now guys if you go out and buy this knife, kunai dagger, whatever you want To call it, I’ve got to come any case just like this, with a little pair of cord at the end and your belt loops that you can scrap your belt through there now you can choose to you, know, strap it to your belt and have it on Your hip or you can strap it around your neck and have it underneath your shirt.
Now here’s the thing it doesn’t come with straps that hard long enough this, since this is just paracord, that’s not a super big issue. Paracord super cheap, and you can just you know, buy some more paracord to make yourself a necklace, but just know that this doesn’t come necklace ready, even though it would work because holding it upside down doesn’t really come out like that, like I can shake it around Running around doesn’t really come out until you pull it out.
Just like that. Now, what we’re going to do is we’re going to talk about the knife. This knife is meant for throwing. Hence why it’s solid on the front, and it’s got these holes that are actually meant for weight. It reduces the weight that it this knife will have wouldn’t blowing through the air that way it can spin it a lot better. It can throw a lot easier to fly through the air nicely all that fun stuff.
Now I kind of suck at drawing knives relatively I’m not the greatest, but I was able to find my pattern and be able to get this to stick relatively often compared to some of the other knives I’ve thrown. So, in my opinion, this is great for throwing. You are also able to use this as a weapon or self defense weapon being able to hold it in your hand, either up right side up for that stabbing motion or how I would choose this way down.
So you can get that blunt object for in and you can get that stabbing motion there. That’s how I would use it. You can obviously hold it. However, you want to it’s a knife. It you know cuts things either way, but it is great for that, because if you have it on your belt or as a necklace, you can quickly hoop pull it out and have that ready to defend yourself now guys, here’s the thing this is going to be A relatively inexpensive night for you to have, and because that is going to be made with stainless steel.
No, I know all you knife aficionados are losing your mind about Liz, but here’s the thing as far as self-defense purposes. This is excellent. You don’t need some sixty dollar piece of equipment as a knife, if you’re just trying to protect yourself, you don’t need something that will you know withstand you, know generations and be passed down through generations. You don’t need a Damascus steel just for a simple self-defense that that’s just not how it is, and so because you’re not going to be parrying other knives with this nut, because you’re not going to be stabbing other metals and trying to like putting it stress testing It basically you’re just trying to throw it into trees or defend yourself with it.
This is ideal. For that reason, you don’t need. You know be 60 and even hundreds of dollars to spin on a knife that you’re just going to use for self-defense you, don’t you don’t need that, and so for all of you guys that you know art knife aficionados, stainless steel. I don’t know how much that will mean to you, but for those of you that are relaxed stainless steel is not that bad. It’s okay! Now guys, if you are interested in buying this knife, this kunai links are down in the description for you.
If you are interested in that at all, but regardless doesn’t leave a like if you enjoy this article and tell me what you think about it, if you honestly disagree with me about famous steel, let’s talk about in the comments, I would love to have that conversation In the comments with you guys before I let you guys go, I want to make sure everybody knows I’m having a subscriber a twenty five thousand subscriber giveaway, where I’m giving away not one but two Karambit blades to two people, one on my Instagram and one on My YouTube, so if you are interested links or not links, but information is Dow description on how you can be involved.
Any comments on my articles from when I announced the giveaway to now is going to count to your position, so I could pick any article from when I announce the giveaway and to when you know the giveaway happens and pick someone and they could win it. Sam with Instagram, if anyone wants to win comment on little Mike, it’s going to post and you’ll be entered to win automatically, just make sure you subscribe and it will all go smoothly.
Now, with all that said, my name is DJ Morris. This is the modern ninja and I’m out you
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2 Zuko shows us that he can make these daggers out of fire and they’re super cool. I wanted some fire daggers when I was kid for sure, but instead of fire daggers. Well, I’m going to be doing today is a review of this kunai dagger that you can get links in the description, but definitely stick around and see how good this is for you now guys if you go out and buy this knife, kunai dagger, whatever you want To call it, I’ve got to come any case just like this, with a little pair of cord at the end and your belt loops that you can scrap your belt through there now you can choose to you, know, strap it to your belt and have it on Your hip or you can strap it around your neck and have it underneath your shirt.
Now here’s the thing it doesn’t come with straps that hard long enough this, since this is just paracord, that’s not a super big issue. Paracord super cheap, and you can just you know, buy some more paracord to make yourself a necklace, but just know that this doesn’t come necklace ready, even though it would work because holding it upside down doesn’t really come out like that, like I can shake it around Running around doesn’t really come out until you pull it out.
Just like that. Now, what we’re going to do is we’re going to talk about the knife. This knife is meant for throwing. Hence why it’s solid on the front, and it’s got these holes that are actually meant for weight. It reduces the weight that it this knife will have wouldn’t blowing through the air that way it can spin it a lot better. It can throw a lot easier to fly through the air nicely all that fun stuff.
Now I kind of suck at drawing knives relatively I’m not the greatest, but I was able to find my pattern and be able to get this to stick relatively often compared to some of the other knives I’ve thrown. So, in my opinion, this is great for throwing. You are also able to use this as a weapon or self defense weapon being able to hold it in your hand, either up right side up for that stabbing motion or how I would choose this way down.
So you can get that blunt object for in and you can get that stabbing motion there. That’S how I would use it. You can obviously hold it. However, you want to it’s a knife. It you know cuts things either way, but it is great for that, because if you have it on your belt or as a necklace, you can quickly hoop pull it out and have that ready to defend yourself now guys, here’s the thing this is going to be A relatively inexpensive night for you to have, and because that is going to be made with stainless steel.
No, I know all you knife aficionados are losing your mind about Liz, but here’s the thing as far as self-defense purposes. This is excellent. You don’t need some sixty dollar piece of equipment as a knife, if you’re just trying to protect yourself, you don’t need something that will you know withstand you, know generations and be passed down through generations. You don’t need a Damascus steel just for a simple self-defense that that’s just not how it is, and so because you’re not going to be parrying other knives with this nut, because you’re not going to be stabbing other metals and trying to like putting it stress testing It basically you’re just trying to throw it into trees or defend yourself with it.
This is ideal. For that reason, you don’t need. You know be 60 and even hundreds of dollars to spin on a knife that you’re just going to use for self-defense you, don’t you don’t need that, and so for all of you guys that you know art knife aficionados, stainless steel. I don’t know how much that will mean to you, but for those of you that are relaxed stainless steel is not that bad. It’S okay! Now guys, if you are interested in buying this knife, this kunai links are down in the description for you.
If you are interested in that at all, but regardless doesn’t leave a like if you enjoy this article and tell me what you think about it, if you honestly disagree with me about famous steel, let’s talk about in the comments, I would love to have that conversation In the comments with you guys before I let you guys go, I want to make sure everybody knows I’m having a subscriber a twenty five thousand subscriber giveaway, where I’m giving away not one but two Karambit blades to two people, one on my Instagram and one on My YouTube, so if you are interested links or not links, but information is Dow description on how you can be involved.
Any comments on my articles from when I announced the giveaway to now is going to count to your position, so I could pick any article from when I announce the giveaway and to when you know the giveaway happens and pick someone and they could win it. Sam with Instagram, if anyone wants to win comment on little Mike, it’s going to post and you’ll be entered to win automatically, just make sure you subscribe and it will all go smoothly.
Now, with all that said, my name is DJ Morris. This is the modern ninja and I’m out you
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