Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast

where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. I have a September Q&A episode for you today,

which includes a great planner piece vignette and some other goodies in planner news.

So excited to get started.

For those of you who have just entered the back to school season, welcome.

I've been there for a while.

My kids have actually been in school for about four weeks now.

So we are just kind of finding

our way and figuring out our rhythms for the season. So I guess this is a little pep talk.

If you have just started and it feels like a lot and it feels overwhelming, you're probably going

to feel a little bit better in a couple of weeks. At least I think we're finally settling out into our new fall rhythms

approximately four weeks after the school year started. So it does take some time. All right.

But one thing that always is fun in the start of September is the beginning of Hobonichi season,

which I've talked about on a couple of prior episodes. I've even done full episodes dedicated to the

Hobonichi launch. And I know that some of you listen to this and don't use Hoonichi, so probably would

prefer I not spend too much time belaboring this. But I did place my order less than a week ago.

And so I'm still a little bit excited about that. And I just wanted to share a couple of takeaways.

I had mentioned on some prior episodes that I suspected things would be much more expensive this

year because of the tariff situation. And also probably related to the tariff situation,

Homanishi has decided to basically remove free shipping. You used to be able to hit a maximum amount

or a certain threshold amount, and then you could ship your items for free, even internationally,

via Japan Post. Now, I guess Japan Post isn't a shipping option. There's another express option

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