Works for Me Wednesday:Household Notebook

If your like me, your always trying to find ways to be/get more organized. I'm always trying to find ways to keep the house clean, keep important papers all in one place, all of our manuals in the right place, and even restaurant numbers, contact lists, emergency plan, etc.

Well, a few days ago I stumbled up on Organized Home.

It's GREAT!!!! They have free printables to make an entire "Household Notebook". Immediately I loved the idea and I have already started making my own. If it wasn't 11:43, I'd go in there and take the picture I forgot to take of ours, but looking on the site, you'll get the idea.

What's a Household Notebook" you ask? Well here's the answer:

What's a Household Notebook?
Unlike a personal planner, which is designed for use by one person, a household notebook or family organizer serves as "command central" for an entire family. While each family's organizer will be unique, most are simple three-ring notebooks with several divider sections.

Most household notebooks include a telephone and message section, a divider for church, clubs or volunteer activities, travel, home management and finance. sections, medical information, and personal records like gift list and clothing size charts.

Because they're infinitely expandable, household notebooks become as distinctive as the family that uses them. A family with school-aged children involved in dance, music and sports will include organizer sections for rehearsal and practice schedules, summer activity ideas and video to-rent lists. A two-career couple with pre-school children may add babysitter and day care dividers and an emergency telephone list to their household notebook. Empty nesters will rely on packing checklists for vacations, home repair records and gift suggestion lists for far-flung. children.

Professional organizers recommend the concept. Deniece Schofield, author of Confessions of a Happily Organized Family, points out. that the "purpose of the family organizer is to hold and organize all of the papers that anyone in the house has to look at or refer to.".

In Totally Organized the Bonnie McCullough Way, writer Bonnie McCullough advises setting up a planning notebook, with sections for "calendar", "telephone", "money" and "people.". Bonnie advises adding. specific dividers to each section to personalize the planning notebook.

These organizing professionals know a good thing when they see one! By compiling and storing family information in a central location, life at home benefits. No more searching for scraps of paper or mislaid permission slips. They're always right where they belong: in the family organizer.

Go on, check them out. I don't know about you, but finding a better way to become organized definitely works for me!!!!

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