Moggins household manual - hope that's ok?

moggins

Hi Grannyknits - welcome to OS

Ciara I've already got mine done

crawley_girl

Wow! I love these thread. I have always been rubbish at housework and keeping on top of things. I love lists and work well from tick-sheets so I'm off to make my own... I may be some time!

:heartpuls CG :heartpuls

tinselfairy

I've got lots of lists, but they are all in different places!
I keep the book with a list of all the meals we like along with the recipes with all my cookery books.
I have an A5 diary, page a day, in my handbag. I would be lost with out it. It gets updated everyday with the things I have to do at home/shopping to be done.
In an A4 ringbinder I have my cleaning lists for each room for when I do a mega clean in each of them. Also in this folder are plastic wallets with my supermarket saving coupons. Various other odd things are in there too, I'm not sure why!
I have an A4 plastic wallet full of leaftlets for ideas on days out.
I was given a birthday book a few years ago which I love. Each month has a page for recording the relevant celebrations and then a pocket for the cards to go in. Handy for keeping spares too.
Then I have a separate Christmas folder. In this are all the recipes, gift ideas, craft ideas and templates, quizzes I have collected over the years and use. Plus the list of gifts given over the past couple of years so I don't duplicate gifts to the same people.

nicki_2

So much for my plan to get myself organised intime for the holidays :rotfl: It all fell apart so instead I'm going to spend today getting the finances in order (I really need to update Money ), write out the budgets (including taking the repayment of OH's overdraft into consideration :mad: ) and get everything together and lists written. I've noticed that things always fall apart of a weekend when everyone is home so I'm going to try a trial run this weekend of everybody having a job to do and I'll have them written DOWN instead of me just saying "Can you do... I'd appreciate it if you could...." which apparently annoys the hell out of OH :rolleyes:

I've got washing to do at the same time and a pot of tea is currently brewing so I have no excuse Off to pour myself a cup of tea and see if OH managed to remember to update his accounts on Money

Linda32

tinselfairy wrote:

I have an A4 plastic wallet full of leaftlets for ideas on days out.

I love that idea, thanks :T

When we want to go out for the day "somewhere different" we can never remember the places we "always mean to go"

carlih1

Hi,

I read this thread last night, i was after a copyb of Anthea Turners manual then found this on a search. Great idea never realised there were so many sites about organising your home. Bought myself a ring binder today and about to put it all together, well start!

Thanx for the inspiration

Carli

caravanlover

metherer wrote:

Possibly, but if it is then I'm sad too!

count me in too

BusyGirl

I am pretty organised but I have too many notebooks, lists, post-it notes etc.
This is such a good idea putting it all in one place, so I've printed some sheets off and I intend to get better organised. I'll let you know how I get on.:T

kethry

this is something i've had for a while. mine is an A5 size clip folder, decorated with some nice wrapping paper (pictures of books as it happens) and covered with stickybacked plastic, its even got a strip to hold it closed with velcro, like a filofax, and a wee pen holder.

at the front i've got 3 plastic pockets (yup, you can get 'em A5 size) one with bus details in, one with what i call my "bare minimum" list (i'm disabled and i find that the amount i can do on any given day varies, the BM list is as it sounds), that's a daily list, and an empty pocket that i use to slip what i'm cooking any given night, i slip into that and stick it on the kitchen cabinet in front of me with blutack (prevents sheets getting covered with goop too).

I've then got a series of dividers (yup, you can get them A5 size too!), which i write on in pencil what they are, so i can chop and change things around as this develops. The first one is routine, with a sort of fly-lady based routine, but to be honest, i haven't used this much so it may well disappear.

section two is called Hse Mgt, its all my shopping lists - when i go shopping i write down how much i've spent on things (so i don't get any nasty surprises at the checkout) in a small notepad i carry in my bag, what this means is that i have a fairly recent record of how much most of the things i buy are, and if i find something somewhere and i think it might be cheaper; i can check straight away.

section three is finances. Because we're on benefits, we only have 2 direct debits - the house insurance and the internet - and the way it (luckily) works is that out of the two week period that our benefits have to cover in each month, one covers the house insurance, the other covers the internet. all other bills are paid in cash at the post office, and i do that the day we get paid, so i work out all the stuff that *has* to be paid straight away, then what's left is what i can play with foodwise and the other more "flexible" things. that's all i do - work out how much money we have, work out how much has to go out, and see what's left.

section four is health notes - doctor's details, hearing aid clinic contact details, fertility clinic contact details, any other stuf that we might need.

section five is diet and exercise: menu planning, that kind of thing, i plan menus for two weeks in advance (cos of the financial restriction).

section six is a calender but that doesn't get used often so it might vamoose.

section seven is christmas food - all my christmas menus, working out how much things cost from different supermarkets so i can get things as cheap as possible.

section eight is notes on xmas decorations.

section nine is notes on xmas gifts, section ten is notes on xmas plans. Post christmas all these will be combined into one folder marked Christmas, but for now its easier to have em seperate.

section eleven is stuff on Jess (the dog). section twelve is emergency. that leaves me (at the moment) with three blank sections i can use if i need to.

Then after that is an A-Z section, which i keep my food menus in (the non xmassy ones). its still very much a work in progress and i've no doubt i'll be getting tips from this thread.. but that's my household management system - it stays at home, ontop of the puter tower!!!

hope that helps someone (and no, i'm not one of these terrifically organised, superduperclean superwomen before any one asks, but it does me..)

keth
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tiredwithtwins

Murtle wrote:

Have started a thread for it, as that is such a great idea and I think others could benefit from your organisation skills Moggins.

I have a couple of questions to ask if you don't mind.

The daily list you have, is this written daily or do you plan it in advance in addition to the diary? If in advance how far?

I am in awe, and am going to work out how to create a similar idea for me.

Many thanks

Murtle

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overheard a colleague talking about this last week at work, and i thought hers sounded great!!
she is a community nurse, so has to keep an a5 diary with her for appointments etc. she has 10 wide bookmarks with daily cleaning/household tasks written on them, and she puts them into each day over the 2 weeks so that each job gets done at least once a fortnight - she just moves that days bookmark into the prevous day if she has to open her diary in a clients house (so they are none the wiser). she has a plastic bookmark that she writes her daily to do list on (sourced from her wall calendar at home) and as its plastic she can wipe that days list off when done.
thought it was a great way of keeping work and home stuff all together (compared to some of us who have 3 diaries on the go sometimes!!)