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Household Notebook: Planner for an Organized Home

household notebookSo you think businesspeople are the only folks who need a personal planner? Think again: families need an organizer, too, to keep life moving smoothly on the home front. Whether it's called a household notebook, a home management binder or family organizer, this simple idea saves time, cuts stress, and enhances communication in any-sized family or household.

A standard-sized binder stocked with calendars and schedules, planner forms and inventories, a Household Notebook creates a one-stop information center for busy families. Whether it's a carpool schedule or a co-worker's phone number, the Household Notebook holds the information you need to check each day.

Ready for an evening out? Flip the Notebook open to the "Emergency Information" page, and the babysitter will always know where to find you.

Time for dinner? Menu planners, recipe organizers and shopping list make it easy to feed the family night after night. Clean house fast with cleaning schedules, chore lists and seasonal checklists for home maintenance.

Stay-at-home parents and homeschool families add scheduling features to the Household Notebook. Daily morning and evening checklists and family schedules make it easy to organize life in busy families with small children.

Ready to create your own Household Notebook? Click the links below for more information about making and using a Household Notebook ... to get organized at home.


Get With The Plan: Pretty Printable Planner from Brenda Arnall

Papercrafters, alert! Feast your eyes on this printable 2010 calendar planner from blogger Brenda Arnall:

printable 2010 planner

This fresh and pretty printable planner will help you get organized for 2010--and would make a lovely homemade holiday gift. Assembled with a Bind It All craft tool, it's easy to add decorated cover pages for a slim, efficient planner notebook.

WIth half-size pages, crisp digital graphics and extra pages for to-do lists, shopping lists and scrapbooking page planners, these free printable pages will make a sweet treat from your printer!

Get with the plan!

Get With The Plan: Printable 2010 Planner Pages



Organize Christmas: Create a Christmas Planner Notebook

What's the fast-track to an organized holiday season? Create a Christmas planner notebook!

Organizing holiday preparations in a simple three-ring binder takes the household notebook concept to new holiday heights!

To create your tool for efficient holiday planning, try these pointers from sister site Organized Christmas:

As we get ready for Christmas, we’ll be making lists (and checking them a lot more than twice!), holding discussions with spouses, children and parents, and drawing up a holiday budget.

Too often, we record our plans piecemeal, consigning them to a confused clutter of scrawled envelopes, jotted notes and cryptic calendar entries—none of which make it to the shopping center with us when it’s time to buy gifts.

Organized people keep the results of their work in a central place: a Christmas planner. Complement to a household notebook, it'll track preparations for a stress-free holiday season.


2009 New Year's Cleaning Grand Plan Challenge

cleaning grand planCleaning got you down? Clean house fast with the 2009 New Year Grand Plan Challenge from OrganizedHome.Com.

Based on Katie Leckey's Cleaning Grand Plan, The New Year Grand Plan Challenge kicks off the new year with a 14-week plan to clean and organize a spring-clean house for the New Year.

Working in small weekly bites makes a big job easy, while printable forms help organize and track cleaning chores. By Spring, you'll be ready for outdoor fun.

The 2009 New Year Grand Plan Challenge begins on January 11, with a preview week for lists and questions beginning January 4.

Ready? Let's clean house for an organized home in the new year.

2009 New Year's Cleaning Grand Plan Challenge



Don't Forget! A Christmas Checklist to Simplify Your Holidays

Psst! One of our own is featured in the current issue of Woman's Day magazine.

Even if you make a list and check it twice, a few items can fall through the cracks during the holidays. What are the things you shouldn't forget as you prepare to celebrate the season?

Check the link for a Christmas checklist of often-overlooked holiday to-do items, from Cynthia Townley Ewer, editor of Organized Christmas:

Holiday Checklist - Woman's Day



Tour of Tours: Bren's Home Management Binder

So you really want to go under the hood of a working home management binder? Quilting blogger Bren, of Pieces From Me, hosts a binder tour of all binder tours!

Including scans of working planner pages, Bren's binder tour gives a great overview of the "how" of using a home management binder. She's sharing lots of photographs, so be patient while this page loads; it will be worth the wait!

Bren's Home Management Binder

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Petite and Portable: Frilly, Frugal Home Management Binder

Homeschooling mother of a large family, blogger Ladyofvirtue had specific requirements for her home binder: portable, practical, pretty and personalized.

See how well she succeeded with her binder tour:

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Frugal and Compact Home Binder



HomeSchoolMom's Flylady Planner Pages: Free Printable!

Now in, from TheHomeSchoolMom.com: a 2-page weekly planner/menu planner combo. Designed to be used by followers of Flylady, this free printable will organize schedules, menu planning and shopping.

In .pdf format, so you'll need the free Adobe Reader to view and print:

Weekly Planner / Menu Planner



Free Printable: Weekly Schedule from MomAgenda.com

So you're all thumbs at the "crafty" thing, and wouldn't know a desktop publishing program if it bit you?

Try this free printable weekly schedule from MomAgenda.com. It's designed to give you a taste of their product, but nobody says you can't tuck it into your home management binder for an organized week!

In .pdf format, so you'll need the Adobe Reader to print:

Free Printable Weekly Schedule from MomAgenda.com



With The Fruit Of Her Hands' Household Notebook

A comprehensive look inside the Household Notebook of blogger With The Fruit of Her Hands, this binder tour should help anyone struggling with scheduling issues.

A bonus: check out the creative use of stick-on tabs plus page protectors to subdivide a larger binder.

Household Notebook

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