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What's the fast-track way to an organized holiday season? Prepare for the holiday season with the help of a Christmas planner notebook!

Most often created as a simple 3-ring binder, a Christmas planner notebook is Santa Central for an organized Christmas. Because you make your own Christmas planner, each notebook will be unique: a treasure trove of personalized planning helpers to cut holiday-season stress.

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

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!

Get with the plan!

Get With The Plan: Printable 2010 Planner Pages    More »

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

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

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:

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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:

Free Printable Forms For Home Management Binder

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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:

What You Should NOT Put Your Home Organizer

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!

Home Management Board

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