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windowshopper100

I love Flylady and wanted the calender but didn't want the American holiday dates. So I get a similar, large-squared calendar from Organised Mum. http://www.organised-mum.co.uk/Organised-Mum-p-1-c-20.html

A calendar for the kitchen and a pocket life book (pretentious name for a diary) for those 'on the move' appointments/thoughts/shopping lists/meal ideas, etc. The calendar comes with stickers and starts runs September - December.

Originally I wanted to save money and print all my own, but my perfectionism kicked in which goaded me into total paralysis so I splashed out. You don't need to buy on-line, I got mine from a localish garden centre.

I'm not a mum though, so I don't know if I'm allowed to have one really;)

lilac_lady

If someone pinched my kitchen calendar my life would be chaos (more than it is now).

msb5262

The whole principle of having one calendar for the family is great but each individual needs to keep their own diary updated and synchronised with the main calendar. This avoids conflict!

The main tip I'd give anyone is this:

get anyone in the household over the age of 8 to bring diary or school planner or mobile or laptop or calendar or whatever to a 5 minute diary meeting every week - maybe Sunday evening - and quickly check through what's happening in the coming week.

That way you can tidy up any details, eg. "I can't be home until 6.30 on Thursday so who can put the dinner in the oven?" and confirm appointments, work shifts, birthdays etc. during the week.

Also if anyone has made new arrangements to take place in the future, these can be put in everyone's diary, mobile etc.

Job done!

MsB

needmorefreebies

I use organised mums family planner. There are 5 of us in the house (3 teenagers!) and I update it once a week from my diary that I carry in my bag. I have been using these planners for the last 5 years and it works great for our family. Last for 18 months and comes with loads of stickers. I have just seen that they do childrens calenders too so am definately going to get one for my daughter this year.

MrsFraggle

Hi
I use an A4 'week to view' diary, which remains open on the kitchen worktop.
Letters from school with dates etc are written in straightaway, same goes for party invites..and then these are 'filed' at the back of the diary for reference. I'll go through them every now and then and recycle the ones that are now out of date.

I write the meal plans on each day, so we know what to remove from the freezer the day beore, Shopping lists in the 'notes' section, when I realise/remember that we're running low on something it gets added.

Likewise if I'm away, or OH is away, or any change to normal 'day to day' stuff (Beavers/Cubs meeting in a place different to the usual etc), gets written in..it appeals to my mild OCD tendencies!

I work full time, have three kids and this keeps me sane..we've tried the wall calendar (not enough space), Google calender (OH never bothered looking at it!).
This way, we can all glance at it and see whats for tea..etc. Eldest son (12) writes his own stuff into it.

Bella79

windowshopper100 wrote: »

I love Flylady and wanted the calender but didn't want the American holiday dates. So I get a similar, large-squared calendar from Organised Mum. http://www.organised-mum.co.uk/Organised-Mum-p-1-c-20.html

A calendar for the kitchen and a pocket life book (pretentious name for a diary) for those 'on the move' appointments/thoughts/shopping lists/meal ideas, etc. The calendar comes with stickers and starts runs September - December.

Originally I wanted to save money and print all my own, but my perfectionism kicked in which goaded me into total paralysis so I splashed out. You don't need to buy on-line, I got mine from a localish garden centre.

I'm not a mum though, so I don't know if I'm allowed to have one really;)

Just been on this website OMG thought i was in heaven ! lol, how come ive never found this before ?

Ive orderd a calender the monthly planer for only £5.00 i know it only takes me to december this year , but worth it i think yipeeeeeee CAnt wait to recvive it now and fill it in . Is it normal to be this excited ? lol

windowshopper100

Just having a surf for inspiration for when the time comes that I do make my own planner and come across this site. There are some free downloads as well as a paid for one (which is quite cheap anyway) but as far as I can see the only difference is that the free ones are black and white.

http://ahhh-design.com/diy-planner-templates/

OK, so they might not be the most practical layouts in the world, but they are sooo cute. I might start small and use a monthly or weekly planner sheet to do my menu planning with.

windowshopper100

Ooh, you sneaked in a quick one.

I'm glad you're this excited. It's almost biblical isn't it. Enjoy.
Here's where I fall down - I don't want to mess the new lovely pages up. Don't think like that, just use it.

Allegra

I have a life book from Organised Mum It cost about 13 times what I used to spend on a diary (bought them in Poundland, lol), but I got about 130 times as much use from it then I ever did from a diary - and that's only halfway through the year !

Love all the little stickers ..... :rotfl: Oh, and the tear out shopping lists !