Planning notes
Written by Surabhi Kuthiala, who makes the planners. How to plan a wedding, a baby, a move or a budget without it taking over your life.
How to price handmade items
True cost first, then a price that leaves a margin, then what actually lands after fees.
8 min read · Selling handmade
How to manage freelance clients and get paid
One record per client, three lists that need each other, and what really gets an invoice paid.
7 min read · Freelancing
How to plan Christmas without the December panic
A month-by-month Christmas countdown, with the posting dates as the real deadlines.
7 min read · Christmas
Snowball or avalanche: how to choose a debt payoff method
Avalanche saves the most interest. Snowball gets finished more often. One number matters more than either.
7 min read · Money
How to budget for a home renovation
Renovations overrun through small changes, each approved on its own and never added up.
8 min read · Renovating
How to plan your day with ADHD
Why planners get abandoned, and how to plan a day that survives a bad morning.
7 min read · Focus and routines
How to organise care for an aging parent
Why the handover between carers is the weak point in caring for a parent, and what to do about it.
8 min read · Caring for family
How to organise your affairs
A will says who gets what. The people left behind mostly struggle with where everything is.
8 min read · Getting affairs in order
How to plan a house move
An eight-week countdown for a house move, including the half almost nobody plans for.
7 min read · Moving house
How to plan a trip
How to build an itinerary that survives the holiday, and why the budget belongs in the same place.
7 min read · Travel
How to run a household without keeping it all in your head
How to organise a home by how often things happen, and why mental load is a storage problem.
7 min read · Running a home
How to plan an Indian wedding
Four to six functions, each with its own guest list and budget. An ordinary wedding checklist cannot hold that.
8 min read · Planning a wedding
How to make a budget that survives the month
How to pick a budgeting method, and the step almost everyone skips that decides whether it lasts.
8 min read · Money
How to plan a wedding
What to book first, and the one number that decides most of a wedding budget.
8 min read · Planning a wedding
What to track in a baby's first year
What is worth writing down in a baby’s first year, and the point at which a log stops helping.
7 min read · The first year
How to plan for a baby
What needs doing before a baby arrives, and when, and the thing that breaks almost every pregnancy checklist.
8 min read · Planning for a baby
Welcome to CalmNCalculated
I’m starting something new, with my family beside me, and I’d rather tell you now, before there’s anything to show.
6 min read · The build diary