5 Year Diary: Blue Cover
Now available in blue, Tamara Shopsin’s classic 5 Year Diary is back in stock. Designed by Shopsin–whose illustration work is regularly featured in The New York Times–and produced by The Ice Plant and Shopsin’s General Store, the pint-sized 5 Year Diary helps you keep track of the next 60 months of your life in just a few lines a day. Each page of the diary is devoted to one day of the year and subdivided into five sections (each with its own space for notes), so that, as time goes by, past entries can be read as the new ones are written. Handsomely clothbound with a red ribbon bookmark, the diary can be started on any day of any year–even a leap year. In the back of the diary are pages to record the books you’ve read and places you’ve traveled. As New York magazine’s Kendall Herbst noted, the 5 Year Diary is an ideal gift for anyone, anytime, as well as the perfect way to “trace your life’s highlights and trim out the minutiae Think of it as a sort of CliffsNotes to your life.”
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Love this journal.
For people like me who want to journal but find a blank page too daunting at the end of a long day, this is five-year journal is perfect. There are only six lines per day, so two minutes before bed is all you need to get the big ideas on paper. I’ve only been using this journal for a couple of weeks, but I can already see the value of having a page for each day of the year so you can easily look back and see where you were the year (or two or five) ago.
My only complaint is the cover. Plain. Boring. But I’m looking for ways to spice it up. Highly recommended.
4 Stars Just right
I was looking for a five year diary for my mom (they are hard to find!)and she was very particular about what she wanted. She was very pleased with the quality of this diary and liked the size as it was similar in size to the diaries she has been keeping over the last 30-40 years.
5 Stars A great way to document life
I love this diary. It gives just the right amount of space to record your day without making you feel like you have to fill up the page. I love that years later you can look back and know exactly what you were doing on that same day 3 years ago. I love it.
5 Stars in five years
This is such a great item. Write out the little things, they’re part of the big picture called life.
5 Stars A perfect 5 year diary.
This five year diary is exactly what I was looking for, an old fashioned diary that allows you to compare the five years on one page. It is constructed very well, strong enough to last many years, as diaries should. I gave one to my sister who has kept a diary for 65 years and she loves it. Thank you for inviting me to comment on your excellant product. I had looked all over for a five year diary, you are the only ones who carry it.
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