Spent $28 on a stencil set and it wrecked my whole weekly layout

I saw everyone's fancy trackers on here and bought this 12-piece stencil kit from an art supply shop downtown, thinking it would make my spreads look like a pro made them. Turns out I spent an hour trying to line up the circles and boxes, and my page ended up looking like a kindergartner's coloring book with smudged ink everywhere. Anyone else get tricked into buying fancy tools that just slow you down, or do you stick to a simple ruler and call it good?

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terry_wood512mo ago

Took me three tries just to draw a straight line with that stupid stencil. Ended up tracing a coffee mug for my habit tracker instead. Ruler and a good pen beat all that fancy junk every time. At least my mug circles looked intentional.

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cameron5382mo ago

Wait, so did you actually stick with the mug circles, or did you just give up on the whole tracker thing after that? @terry_wood51, I gotta know if the coffee cup method ended up working out long term or if it was just a one day fix.

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