Put your brain in a binder .... for an organized home! Whether you call it a household notebook, a home management binder or a homemaking notebook, get great ideas, printables and tips for your household's paper planner.
Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on November 2, 2009 - 09:02
Papercrafters, alert! Feast your eyes on this printable 2010 calendar planner from blogger Brenda Arnall:
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!
Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on December 4, 2008 - 13:23
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:
Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on December 4, 2008 - 13:21
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:
Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on December 4, 2008 - 13:17
Home management binders aren't just for career homemakers! Designedly Kristy brings the principle to SAHA, or Stay At Home Artists with these free printable Control Journal pages.
Our Inner Artist loves the studio supply inventories and the fresh left-brain/right brain format; the Homemaker Within soundly approves of the no-nonsense home management forms. You'll need Adobe Reader 5.0 or better to print these free forms:
Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on December 4, 2008 - 12:03
Looking for inspiration for your home management binder? Do we have the site for you!
"Household Notebooks made beautiful" is the site motto, and so it is! Find fresh, feminine printable forms for your home management binder from Web site From The Fruit Of Her Hands
Free for the printing (or available as complete notebook downloads for a small charge), find daily schedules, menu planners, cleaning checklists, chore lists and calendars:
Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on September 21, 2007 - 08:51
Life tips blogger Kristin loves the household notebook concept, but adds a big "But!": information you shouldn't include in your household notebook.
If your notebook fell into the hands of a stranger, what information would it disclose? Get Kristin's guidelines for keeping your family binder a friend, and not a security risk:
Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on August 26, 2007 - 10:45
If you're visually oriented, there may be resistance to the idea of a household notebook. Who wants to flip all those pages ... and what happens when you set the mail down on top of your daily schedule?
Clever blogger Jumping On The Bed has an in-your-face solution: a home management whiteboard. Using a large dry erase marker board, she juggles schedules, lists and information right on the wall. Check out her not-notebook solution for better home management!