Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Organized Wife = Organized Life

A few weeks ago, I was inspired by BlueEyedBride to create a home/family organization binder. The concept makes so much sense, but I had never thought of it before! Sure, I have a planner and calendars for our life, but to put all of the info we need to be able to access/plan/organize in one place.. WHAT A CONCEPT!

So, without further adieu, here is our family organization binder!

I love these cute calendar printables. Since we have a "master calendar" hanging in our kitchen and I have my own planner, I don't plan to write everything on the calendars in the binder. However, it's perfect for birthday reminders!

The weekly chore list is huge! Some weeks, it is easy to let my "cleaning goals" get away from me. This way, I have to be accountable to my list! I like that I can easily add in Lance's house maintenance plans too :)

Lance and I are in major budget mode right now. So, each month, we will print our budget and put it into the binder. This way it is easy to reference quickly, and we can make notes on it as we need to.

I love the meal planner section. I don't plan our breakfast and dinner (might be more useful when we have children), but I do plan our dinners on it. I also love that it has a section for making a grocery list based on the week's meal plans. How convenient!


I'm sure I will add more as we go, but this is what I have for now! I already feel so much more on top of things and organized. Thanks to BlueEyedBride for the inspiration!

6 comments:

Blue-Eyed Bride said...

I love it! It looks so good!

Casey said...

I've heard of the concept but it was called the "home bible" and I read about in in Domino magazine. It contained things like emergency phone numbers, workmen, petsitters; the calendar contains every major household job and what month to do it in; and the grocery list is multiple blanks that get hung of the fridge so whoever goes shopping knows what needs replacing.

Always Organizing said...

Looks great! Thanks for sharing :)

Wendy said...

Love it! all of you girls are getting so organized! I need to do one of these!

Chelsi said...

I love reading through all of the different binders ideas on Erin's link up!

I'm trying to put together my favorite things from all of them before I take the plunge; can you tell me where you got your binder? It's super cute!!! Thank you!

yarger (dot) chelsi (at) gmail!

Kaper Design said...

I love the polka dots!