In association with Busy B
I bloody love a quiz. I’ve loved quizzes ever since I used to get Garfield magazine, (mainly for the pen pal section – did anyone else have a Garfield penpal??), and the quizzes would be about whether I liked lasagne. Aged about 13 I progressed to Just Seventeen, and the quizzes were very much focussed on things like ‘Does he fancy you?’ and ‘Do boys like you?’ and ‘What kind of kisser are you?’
There was no mention of lasagne, although on reflection I suspect there may be some overlap between whether or not you can make a lasagne and whether or not a boy will like you.
Today’s quiz though is about another of my lifelong loves – alongside carbs and boys – and that is STATIONERY. Dairies to be precise. Unlike boys, you know where you stand with a diary. They are never going to let you down or be late for anything, they simply couldn’t, they are punctuality and organisation in paper form. They are reliable, beautiful, useful – everything you always wanted a boy to be at a fraction of the emotional cost.
HOORAH FOR DIARIES!
In celebration of the humble diary, today I am offering you up not just a quiz, but the chance to win a diary that has been matched, by science*, to your exact personality type. I know, what a day.
The giveaway is being sponsored and the prizes donated by the lovely people at Busy B. The Busy B team make all kind of notebooks, diaries, meal planners and more, all with attention to detail and practical design. I’ve loved them for years and I know you will too. If you see something you like, or fancy doing a bit of Christmas shopping, you can get 20% off all non-sale items until the end of the year with the code MAKO20.
Let’s get cracking with the quiz shall we?
The questions
Question 1:
How best describes how you use your diary?
A: I use it to prevent a nervous breakdown trying to keep track of myself, my three children and 14 cats.
B: I use mine to note key appointments, manicures etc, and keep it in my elegant clutch bag at all times.
C: I use mine to plan out the Christmas Of Dreams every year, plus of course my annual summer garden party, and all of our holidays with friends in villas in Greece.
D: I pretty much have to remind myself to shower and eat meals and can’t remember a thing without it.
E: It’s just a diary DAHRLING, for writing down lunch dates with all of my friends because I am so popular.
Question 2:
What are your childhood memories of keeping a diary?
A: It was basically a family history, a who’s who and who goes where of everyone I knew
B: I’d start with good intentions, but let’s say I didn’t need PAGES
C: I mainly used it to plan my dream wedding and make my Christmas list
D: I kept a very thorough record of everything I did, including every meal I ate, down to sandwich fillings.
E: Mine was a bit of a mix of day-to-day stuff, notes, lists, all sorts really.
Question 3:
If your diary were on Keeping Up With The Kardashians, who would it be?
A: Kris
B: Kourtney
C: Kim
D: Khloé
E: Caitlyn
Question 4:
Would you like a diary with super cool handy pockets for storing all those little bits of Important Stuff?
A: Yes please
B: Very much so
C: I couldn’t do without them
D: Well dur
E: I’d give a kidney for them
The results
Mostly As: You’re a busy life diary! You’re a multi-tasker, so you need a diary that can keep up. Busy B busy life diaries have a unique dual schedule format so you can have two schedules running alongside each other, perfect for keeping track of the family schedule as well as your own. There’s extra space for reminders, lists and handy pockets. Basically this diary does everything bar make you a coffee.
Mostly Bs: You’re an A6 To Do diary! I bet you never knew it either. This is a sleek and stylish diary, small but perfectly formed, for easy planning at a glance, monthly overviews and week-by-week pages with lots of room for notes. Perfect for keeping in a handbag and pulling out at opportune moments to say ‘let me consult my diary’.
Mostly Cs: You’re a Perfect Planner diary! You love to plan. And I mean LOVE to plan. You don’t just want a monthly overview, you want to see the whole damn year at a glance, just to see how well spaced out your mini-breaks are. The Perfect Planner diary has expense pages too, because that’s just the kind of person you are.
Mostly Ds: You’re a Day a Page diary! Where the Perfect Planner sees the whole year, you see a single day at a time. Some people call you mindful, others say you’re a teeny bit of a control freak. You say you just like to know what’s happening from one minute to the next and honestly what’s wrong with that? Keep an eye on the bigger picture too with a year planner and birthday list.
Mostly Es: You’re an A5 To Do diary! Yep, you guessed it, it’s the A6 To Do diary but EVEN BIGGER. It does all the same stuff, but the A5 To Do is saying ‘yeah, I guess I’m just more important or have more friends or something?’ There are monthly overviews, weekly planners and of course the iconic Busy B handy pockets for tucking away all the phone numbers of the new and important friends you make.
Mostly Fs: Are you okay hun? Maybe go and have a lie-down.
How to win a Busy B diary
Once you’ve taken the quiz, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling me which type of diary you are. (Or which you’d like if you didn’t get an outright winner.) Make sure you complete the email box as that’s how I’ll be contacting winners.
I’m running this competition across my blog and this Instagram post, so if you want some extra entries you can go and enter there too. I’ll put all the entries in a hat and pull out five winners after midnight on 31st October. As long as the witches don’t get me. UK entries only I’m afraid as I’m in charge of posting.
Good luck!
*And by ‘science’ I mean ‘my made-up quiz’