My Month in Numbers: October 2015 (with a how-to)

Hello friends! I am back today to share a new Month in Numbers page created with the November This Life Noted kit from Scraptastic Club:

I have had a few questions recently about how I put My Month in Numbers pages together, in terms of content. Before I give you my method, I will refer you to Julie Kirk, the creator of the Month in Numbers blog series and link party. She has already written a tutorial about "How to Record your Month in Numbers".
When I first started sharing my Month in Numbers more than 3 years ago, I would keep tab of certain things starting on the 1st of the month, like number of loads of laundry, number of miles driven, number of shows watched, etc... it is still fun but as time went on, I forgot about counting throughout the month and developed a looser/easier approach to the concept.

How do I gather content now?
The first thing I do is go through the photos I took throughout the month. I select a few that I want to use and come up with a way to summarize the event/story with a number:
Let's take for example the photo of the carved pumpkin above, I could write: 1: number of pumpkins we carved this year or $3.99: price of pumpkins this month or 12: number of trick-or-treaters that came to the door.... you'll often find several ways to tell a story with numbers.

Second step, I look at my planner/calendar and find other events I want to include, sometimes I will find a photo to go with them and sometimes I won't :
Let's take the bottom card with The X-Files photo. In that case, I started with the data I wanted to include (the fact that we have started watching the very first season) and found a photo online to illustrate my number. Finally, if I find events I want to include but no photos to go with them, I will simply add a line on a journaling card. Each of my Month in Numbers pages, have one of those cards filled with extra events without photos.
If I am still short on events or facts, I will also go through my emails or my texts from the month...

It is really a fun twist on memory keeping and I encourage you to give it a try, whether just on a one-time page (like I did HERE) or as part of your Project Life (or regular) albums.

You can check out all my previous pages under the Month in Numbers category.

Thank you for stopping by! Feel free to ask questions in the comments below.