Blogging as As Simple As Two Plus Two, Shawna shares her specialty management notebook: a meal planning binder.
With sections for grocery list, menu planners and recipes, she's on top of menu and meal planning--and her beautifully-crafted binder is a feast for the eyes, too:
When blogger Elizabeth and her friend Kim took on the challenge to create a home management binder, they aimed high.
Deciding to create more than just a simple binder for household information, they envisioned their notebooks as "living books" that would help teach their daughters to keep house. Better, they shared skills and inspiration to create two very pretty, very distinctive family binders.
In these posts, Elizabeth shares her Foss Family Home Companion, while Kim outlines her Family Management Journal. Both binder tours go further: they explain the thinking behind these two young mothers' decision to create order for their families, now and for the future.
Don't miss Kim's downloadable dividers and forms for your home management binder (in Microsoft Word format). Check them out:
Elizabeth's Family Home Companion
Home Management Journal - The Basics
Home Management Journal - Housekeeping
Home Management Journal - Cleaning Forms and Lists
If you're visually oriented, there may be resistance to the idea of a home management binder. 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 board. Using a large dry erase marker board, she juggles schedules, lists and information right on the wall. Great alternative!
A comprehensive look inside the Household Notebook of blogger With The Fruit of Her Hands, this binder tour should help anyone struggling with scheduling issues.
A bonus: check out the creative use of stick-on tabs plus page protectors to subdivide a larger binder.
A good description of the how-to behind a home management binder, from blogger Samara Jane. Nicely done!
Homeschooler and blogger Bahama Blessing has a creative take on the home management binder. We love her scrapbooking pages, colorful dividers and whimsical cover!
Pretty home management binders are the order of the day, and this one's from blogger Simply Susan:
Don't miss this link, where she shares her binder section cover pages:
We love the bright colors and personal touches blogger Rockin' Granola brings to her Flylady-inspired control journal. Check out her work-in-progress:
