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12-11-2009, 09:29 AM | #1 |
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Household notebooks
I want to have one, now that our family is 6-people big and there are so many things to keep track of! I was reading this today http://notebook.organizedhome.com/di...ehold-notebook. Sounds great~
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12-11-2009, 09:46 AM | #2 |
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Re: Household notebooks
I did something similar for a couple of years. I based my planner on the Control Journal concept by Fly Lady. I loved it. The best suggestion that I used was to make daily schedules that fit into clear plastic page protectors. Using a dry erase pen you can cross the items off your list and then wipe it clean when the day is done. I think I'll go read your link more thoroughly to glean new ideas to help me tweak my system.
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12-11-2009, 10:02 AM | #3 |
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Re: Household notebooks
I have something similar that I affectionately refer to as "my brain". This is what mine "looks" like:
Before any tabs are my daily or weekly planning pages. Whichever I happen to be using ATM. I have to switch these up routinely when I start getting bored with them. First tab is "Calendar". These aren't "here and now" calendars. These are for dates beyond my current planner pages. I have a page each with yearly calendars for 2010, 2011 and 2012. I have monthly calendars for each month of 2010 and 2011. I throw away the monthly page after I transfer the events to my planner page AND recurring events to the next year's monthly calendar page. Then, I have a tab for "Faith". Bible reading schedules, articles I want to read, quotes that I want to look back at, etc. Finance. Checking journal. Bank statements (I scan Jan-June and July-Dec statements when I've accumulated a set, store them on a memory card and shred the statements then, so I never have more than 5 months of statements in the binder at once.) I also have receipts in this section for warranted items that I may need in the future. I glance at them when I scan statements to see what can be discarded. Home: Holiday planning pages. Cleaning pages will go here when/if I drop out of the HBChallenges. H/S. H/S planning stuff and ideas get parked here periodically. Meals. Meal planning forms. Grocery shopping list forms. Recipes that I want to try out before transferring to a card to put into my recipe binder. Medical: Medical records. Lab results. Insurance information. Medication dosing charts (tylenol, motrin, etc.) Reference: Address and phone numbers. Birthday list. Account/reward numbers. |
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12-11-2009, 10:08 AM | #4 |
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Re: Household notebooks
I have a home management binder. I it.
I have it filled with inspirational pictures. Each section is tabbed, with a pic that makes sense with the section. I have my daily schedule, cleaning schedules, meal plans, shopping lists, a list of what is needed to make each meal, my usual recipies so I don't have to flips through different books all the time, contacts, inspirational articles. I also have all the schdules and charts on my comp so I can edit and reprint if needed. Or for my shopping list, I have it down with everything I need right down to smallest ingredient. So then on shopping day, I just delete all the things I have on hand.
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12-11-2009, 11:29 AM | #5 |
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Re: Household notebooks
I have one that I really love and I've posted several posts on my blog about it. I haven't finished that "series" yet, but you're welcome to check it out: http://oneweirdmama.wordpress.com/ta...ment-notebook/ Scroll to the bottom to start at the first post.
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12-11-2009, 11:56 AM | #6 |
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Re: Household notebooks
coming back to this...
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12-31-2009, 11:54 AM | #7 |
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Re: Household notebooks
I have mine--and I have been meaning to get it reorganized for 2010. The thing is, dh is doing most of the housekeeping stuff and he is as clueless as I was when I was trying to organize with 5 children I got organized and can do it all without the notebook now--but he has to do it and I have been frustrated with him for not being able to do it as well I realized this last week, when I stepped back and looked with clarity, that I don't have to make it be as hard for dh as it was for me. Rather than resent the fact that I can't do what I worked so hard to be able to do--I can equip him to do it and he can build on what I started (and possibly make it even better )
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Re: Household notebooks
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12-31-2009, 01:41 PM | #9 |
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Re: Household notebooks
This one I totally didn't get at first. I'm all about crafty stuff. But this had me . I went back to it today, and read through the end...she said it's nice "to write down the date and all the lovely little snippets of the day". That I could do/would do. Maybe at some point I'll do a memory journal or something like that...I just can't imagine being organized with something like that. I'd personally stay as scattered as I am right now.
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12-31-2009, 01:44 PM | #10 |
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is it possible you are equating right-brained and artistic with disorganized? Organization does not look the same for a right-brained artistic person, but it does not have to be disorganization. I have learned that "disorganized" has often meant "trying hard to follow left brained ideas and use left brained tools and having them be ineffective".
"Organizing for the Creative Mind"
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12-31-2009, 01:47 PM | #11 |
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I'm just enjoying this thread!
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Is that a book? Right now I'm in the process of holding a sleepy but hungry baby, and when he's again fed and sleepING, I'm going to finish decorating my notebook and take a picture. |
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I've read "Organizing for the Creative Mind" and the things I'm going to try and incorporate this year are the To-Do list based on priority, a global overview of the month and upcoming months, and I'm going to experiment with organizing my day like the chronotebook (i.e. a clock at the center of the page and that's it).
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Also, as a bonus, here is a beautifully encouraging entry on scheduling our days: http://www.aholyexperience.com/2007/08/new-days.html
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here's another just like her idea, with lots of pictures. http://eyesofwonder.typepad.com/my_w...ing/index.html Last edited by TrinMama; 01-04-2010 at 08:37 AM. |
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