Monday, August 26, 2013

How to Create a Home Management Binder ~ Part 5 Cleaning & Projects

Part 5 ~ Cleaning & Projects

Welcome back to my How to Create a Home Management Binder series. With fall coming, it's time to start to pack away all your summer clothes and accessories. Therefore, I though it would be appropriate to cover my cleaning and project sections of my binder.

I have a few favorite printables for these sections. One of these comes from a favorite blog of mine, Pinch A Little Save A Lot. Bekah, the owner of Pinch A Little Save A Lot, has some absolutely wonderful cleaning printables. 


You can find some more wonderful cleaning printables at another favorite blog of mine, New Bee Homeschooler. They have four different printables: weekly, monthly, spring and fall.




If none of these works for you, you can also find other cleaning printables at:



Next I would like to share my project section of my binder. There are tons of project planner printables on the web. Here are some of my favorites.





Jen, the owner of I Heart Organizing, has both a project planner as well as a project budget printable.








I hope that this was helpful. I will continue with more sections of my binder in the next post. Make sure you follow me so that you don't miss out on any of the sections.

Have a wonderful day!!!!

Jenn

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Friday, August 23, 2013

How to Create a Home Management Binder ~ Part 4

Part 4 ~ Meal Planning & Coupons

Welcome to Part 4 of the How to Create A Home Management Binder series. Today I am going to show you the meal planning section of my binder, as well as the coupon section. Now I have two parts to my meal planning section. In the first part I put the actual meal planner printables. In the second part I put my grocery/to buy lists. 

I use a few different free meal planning printables I have found around the web. The first one I would like to share with you is from Buttoned Up. It is a great meal planner with space for both writing in what you are planning to make each day of the week, plus a shopping list. I use this printable if I don't have a huge shopping order that week.




The planner I use most often is the one from The Joy Cottage. I love this one because I can write in the ingredients for each meal so that I can make sure I have everything I will need. Plus there is room for all three meals of the day.




Another printable I use, especially for school days is a lunch planner from Hello Cuteness. It is great for planning school lunches.

Image Credit: Hello Cuteness


You can also find more meal planning printables by clicking the links below.




Now for the second part of my meal planning section, the grocery list. The one that I use most often because there is a place to check off if you are using a coupon is the list from Pinch A Little Save A Lot.




However, you can also find another list at Scattered Squirrel

Next, I would like to share my coupon section of my binder. To keep track of my coupons I created a coupon tracker printable which you can DOWNLOAD HERE. I did this because I was finding that I either forgot I had a coupon {and it expired}, and because when I need a specific coupon I can just check to see quickly if I have it in my coupon holder.


You can also find a different coupon tracker at Mrs. January. However, I found that printable to be a bit too complicated. But it may work better for you. 

Well this concludes today's post of How to Create a Home Management Binder. Please make sure you follow me so that you don't miss out on any part of the series. Also, if you are coming from Pinterest and would like to start at the beginning of the series click HERE.

Thanks Everyone,
~ Jenn ☺

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

How to Create a Home Management Binder ~ Part 3

Part 3 ~ Finances

Hello Everyone,
Welcome back to my How to Create a Home Management Binder Series. We ended last time with account numbers and information. Therefore, today I will be showing you the next section in by binder which is my financial section. For my finances I currently use the Money Management Essentials, created by Bekah on Pinch A Little Save A Lot. She has nine financial printables that I use, that are so colorful. Some of which are:


A Financial Calendar
Image Credit: Pinch A Little Save A Lot


A Bill Payment Checklist
Image Credit: Pinch A Little Save A Lot


A Daily Expense Tracker
Image Credit: Pinch A Little Save A Lot


 A Monthly Budget
Image Credit: Pinch A Little Save A Lot
You can find these and more wonderful printables at Pinch A Little Save A Lot.


I also use a monthly bill payment tracker that I created a while back.


You can download your own copy of this printable HERE.

You can also find other useful printables for your financial section on the sites below.




You can also explore my Household Budget Pinterest Board where you will find some more ideas and links. Thank you for joining me today. I hope that you find some of this information helpful. Please let me know if you know of any other great free financial printables, as I am always looking to update my binder. Next time I will be covering my coupon as well as my meal planning section. Please make sure you follow me so that you don't miss out on any part of the How to Create A Home Management Binder series. Thanks again!

~ Jenn ♥


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Friday, August 9, 2013

How to Create A Home Management Binder ~ Part 2


PART 2

Hello Everyone,
Well back to How to Create A Home Management Binder ~ Part 2. Today we are going to cover the next few sections in my home management binder. Keep in mind that everyone's needs are different. Therefore, what I have in my binder may differ from what you need in your household binder. These are just ideas to help you to start building your binder. Feel free at any time to add or maybe skip over a section if you find that it will not be helpful to you.

The first section I am going to cover today is To Do Lists.

My favorite lists are from Clean Mama. She has three different lists. These are the ones I use.

Image Credit: Clean Mama

Image credit: Clean Mama


Some other to do lists I have found are from:



Image credit: Just a Girl and Her Blog



Image Credit: I Love Organized Home


Image Credit: I Heart Organizing


The next section I am going to address is online account Password and Username Log

Here is the account password & username log I created. It can be downloaded HERE.




Here is another version from New Bee Homeschooler.

Image Credit: New Bee Homeschooler

You can also find some different versions at:





The final section I am going to share with you today is Important Household Account Numbers Log.

I just recently created a printable for this section. This log is to keep track of all my household account numbers such as my gas, electric, credit card accounts, etc. You can download a copy HERE.



Another version of these logs can be found at DIY Home Sweet Home

Image Credit: DIY Home Sweet Home

Images Credit: DIY Home Sweet Home

I hope you find these printables helpful. Again, make sure you follow me so that you don't miss any sections of the household management binder series. Next time I will be sharing the financial section of my binder. You can also find tons of other printables on my Household Planner and Organizing Pinterest Board.

Have a great day!

♥ Jenn

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

How to Create a Home Management Binder



Do you have important papers lying all over the house? Can you never find important information when you need it most? Would you like a place where you can store those important papers and information so that it is easily accessible? Well then this series on how to create a home management binder is for you. I am going to start the first part of a three part series today on how to create a home management binder of your own. In the series I will show you my home management binder, walk you through the steps of setting up your own binder and supply you with various links to free useful printables that I have found around the internet.

To start off, you will need some supplies:
{depending on how much you will be storing in the  binder} that you can find at many local stores as well as Amazon.
8.) Folders that have 3 holes to fit into binder *Optional*
9.) Pen/Pencil Holder with 3 holes & pens, pencils, highlighters *Optional*
10.) Post It Notes *Optional*
11.) Business Card Sleeves for 3 ring binder *Optional*

Once you have all the supplies you are ready to start. First we are going to start out with the binder cover and spine. Below is what the spine and cover of my home management binder looks like.



I found my cover and spine at Organizing Homelife. Ginny, the owner of Organizing Homelife did a 31 day even where she made 31 printables in 31 days. For the binder covers she offers six different styles to choose from. Please take a look!

OrganizingHomelife.com
Link to Organizing Homelife Home Management Printables

Now you are ready to start adding the printables. The first thing that I put into my binder was a calendar, which I also got at Organizing Homelife. However, there are many various calendars available on the internet. Here are some of my favorites.

CALENDAR SECTION




Image Credit: The Elli Blog


Image Credit: The TomKat Studio


IMPORTANT DATES


I also added a page that I could keep track of all the yearly important dates.

Image credit: Scattered Squirrel





CONTACTS SECTION






Other place you can find contact printables:


So I hope this was helpful. I will continue with the next sections on the next post. Please make sure you follow me and/or follow by email so that you don't miss any sections. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

♥ Jenn


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