So, here I am once again crawling back to the Hobonichi Weeks. Sigh. I don’t know why it always comes back to this. Every time. Why is this what my brain wants? I have no idea. But here I am again at Itoi’s house, begging for another. He’s there to tell me about potential. Enjoy your stay, he says. I don’t even know why I’m here. So, I don’t usually bother posting a yearly techo kaigi, mostly because I end up with a bunch of “and here’s what went wrong” rather than anything positive. But I guess I need to actually post this to get the message through to my brain. Stop buying other shit that’s not the Hobonichi Weeks. Stop. You always go back to the Weeks, every damn time. Why are you like this?! What’s wrong with you? I actually was planning on swearing off Hobonichi entirely last year, especially after that price hike with the US shipping and thinking on how much hyper-consumerism Itoi promotes that contradicts everything else he seemed to care about that Itoi kinda annoys me a bit. So, last year I used the Hibino for the second half of the year and had planned to use it for all of this year. I aborted that in April, as I always do with every planner that’s not the Hobonichi Weeks. Doesn’t matter who the company that makes it is, doesn’t matter the format. Goodbye Jibun Techo, goodbye every ring system out there, goodbye Cousin, goodbye TN, and so many others. Every year, every time, always back to the Weeks. Why the Weeks? Fuck if I know. I’ve ever tried knock offs of the Weeks, then end up moving back into the Weeks. i can’t quit the Weeks. Why?! So, this is a reminder to myself, specifically, for all to see. Stop buying shit that’s not the Weeks. Stop it. You always go back to it in the end and end up wasting money. Accept your fate. You are the mythic person who can achieve the supposed “planner peace” because you always run back to the exact same planner. Stop running away. Nothing else works. Your brain has decided on the Hobonichi Weeks. There’s nothing you can do about it. Rewrite buying a planner in your head from “oh, I need to choose” to “it’s time to buy the Weeks ago”. All you need to choose is a cover. Honestly, the cover doesn’t even matter. Just buy any one of them. That’s it. That’s all you need to do. You don’t like that high shipping price. Congrats, you’re gonna buy it from Yoseka or Etsy or Ebay. Accept it. Every time, this happens. Stop fighting it. You don’t do daily planning well. You always end up wanting that Weekly view but not with a time table like the Cousin. You want that free space beside the weekly view. You want the months and weeks all pre-written out for you. Stop looking at Bullet Journals. You are far too lazy and dyslexic to sit around drawing up your own monthly pages. You know damn well you’re going to fuck up the calendar before you’ve even written down a single date. You need formatting. You want free pages? Weeks. Weeks Mega for a busy year. You know you like that cream color over the blinding white colors of many other planners. You know it’s the perfect size to you. All that FPF paper. The moon phases. The black, cream, and red. You hate it in the English Techo, but love it in the Weeks. There’s no denying it. So here’s my techo kagi for June 2025, a reminder to my future self. Stop buying planners that aren’t the Hobonichi Weeks. I don’t care which cover you pick. Just buy one. And you know damn well you are going to regret any clear cover. Don’t buy those. You can buy the pencil boards, if you want, but no clear covers. You aren’t going to want the proper covers either. They’re too expensive and are obviously designed after a lady’s wallet. Just toss it in a bag or your back pocket or make your own. You know how to sew, you lazy fuck. It doesn’t matter. It’s gonna look filthy in a week after buying it no matter what you put on it because Hobonichi covers attract dirt as their primary purpose in life, with functioning as a planner being a distant second. Look at this one here. You haven’t even had it that long and it’s already stained. If you had a clear cover on, it’d still be stained. If you had a proper cover on it, it would somehow still be stained. That’s what they do. Do not think about it. Only the inside matters. You know you love the Weeks, because you’re comfortable with it being dirty and junked up. All other planners, you feel guilt if you so much as add a sticker to cover up something you fucked up. After all, you’re not keeping it past the year, you say. But the Weeks? You never care. You fill it up with whatever junk and you never feel guilty about it. It’s like it’s demanding to be filled with junk. And you enjoy it. You sit there and feel over the junk you loaded it up with, taking in all those varying textures while your synesthetically-focused brain is lighting up like fireworks. There’s no need to have that pure, minimalistic, empty journal or have guilt about having too much junk in something. Just fill the Weeks with junk and be happy. You have never once worried about this with the Weeks, but worry about it with every single other planner in existence. Fill the Weeks with junk. You know it’s the only planner you never care about how your handwriting looks. If something’s fucked, you never feel guilty just covering it with something. It’s allowed to be transformed over and over, and it never bothers you. I can’t tell you why that is, but that’s what your brain says. Quit fighting it. Accept it. Every planner season, come back here. Reread this. Remember. Just buy the Weeks. Quit searching for something “new” and “perfect”. Quit wasting money. Buy the Weeks. Any cover. From anywhere. Pray that Itoi gifts you a new one and doesn’t close up shop. He owns your ass and he’s laughing at you from some Saturn-shaped table and there ain’t shit you can do about it.