Household Diary

ReformedShopaholic

Right been to The Range today and so have come back with an A5 notebook, its not a diary and may possibly run out before the end of the year but I like it.
So off to transfer everything from last few weeks and to have a change around of the stuff I put in it.

LolaLemon

Lidl has a 'brother' label machine thingy that many of u are talking about for £15.

Ninno820

I've had a productive day and now have a colourful file of planning documents. I decided to start (yes I know I am several weeks behind most of you) with a single page for the monthly calendar followed by a page per week (thanks for the link to Artsy-fartsy mama for the nice downloads). Having written in Jan and feb's calendar I then decided to punch holes in a see through wallet with pop fastener and place this at the font of the planner - that way I can make and address birthday cards etc and put them in here ready to post. I have also put a packet of stamps in here so that I am not rushing around looking for them.

Payday is this wednesday and so I have devised my own shopping lists to just tick what I need - I normally buy similar things each month but have left room to add new products. I have copied enough of these lists to place one in each "month".

I then started to make a list of things / lists / sheets that I think I might need and am trying to make them myself. I thought about a sheet for the pets, for example, to record vacination dates, vets bills etc. I am also planning to make inventory sheets for each room in the house (with the help of photos) and "work schedule" sheets to cover those odd jobs that we keep meaning to do (I had some pipes boxed in over 5 years ago and am ashamed that I have never painted them to match the rest of the room!

Hopefully I am on the right road - Thankyou for helping me to pass a quiet sunday. Now I am looking forward to writing in it every week!

islandgirl8

I love this thread!

Here's another idea for a home journal. http://www.thesunnysideupblog.com/2012/01/time-management-binder.html

TheDoolallyDilly

I have a folder on the dresser shelf with info about recycling/bin collections, local information, etc. I meal plan on the other side of a piece of used paper (I'm all about being green it's only a plan and a shopping list, no need for more trees to be cut down for it). I do it weekly, just before I do the online shopping.

I have a 'weekly' to do list which is basically an A5 sized piece of used paper, using the blank side. Divided into days of the week, with two extra boxes for supermarket (to add things as I realise I need to get them) and a 'next week' box for things I am carrying forward to the following week, or need to remember for the following week. I write this up on Sunday evening/Monday morning, and it lives in my handbag. I transfer all appointments etc onto it, and then allocate all the other things I need to do to the various days. I used to use a notebook for this, but using a piece of used paper is much more OS and saves more trees!

I don't need a cleaning plan, as I just remember. A bit like I remember when I change the smoke alarm batteries, and which days of the week I change bedding/towels etc. You could set your watch by me I have pondered typing it all out and filing it in the folder on the dresser, in case I walk under the proverbial bus ...

I have an old filofax I use for noting all the books I've read/want to read - I use the A-Z dividers and lined paper. And I do usually remember to take it to the library with me. I couldn't use a notebook with fixed pages as I read all the time, and would soon fill it up!

I've had this system for years, and it ain't broke, so I'm not fixing it!

Gretchen2012

BettyCrumble - My labelling machine came yesterday and its fantastic. I was only expecting it to be small for the price I paid but its huge and has a qwerty keyboard. Love it!!:)

Betty_Crumble

Gretchen2012 wrote: »

BettyCrumble - My labelling machine came yesterday and its fantastic. I was only expecting it to be small for the price I paid but its hugh and has a qwerty keyboard. Love it!!:)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :drool:

bess1234_2

I thought I was the only one! Do you mean there are others out there with stationary love! ha ha .

thankyou for starting this thread and introducing me to the world of printables. If I ever get to the point of the american supermom control central files, it will be time to go cold turkey, but for now I have my shiny new colourful pretty printoffs in a file, and printed budget sheets and shopping sheets, but designed my own weekly house diary sheet, with cut and pasted weekly flylady lists on, to cover the cleaning, meal planning, remember and to do lists. Oooh its so gorgeous! I'm off to go stroke it lol!:rotfl:

(the budget sheet is impractical but pretty- I guess this is the test, I will make it work, I will )

cdm

Hi all...just a heads-up to LolaLemon -- if you still fancy the 'Mum's Office' one mentioned in one of your earlier posts, they're reduced to £9.00 in our local Tesco -- original price about £17 or so.

HTH.

LolaLemon

cdm wrote: »

Hi all...just a heads-up to LolaLemon -- if you still fancy the 'Mum's Office' one mentioned in one of your earlier posts, they're reduced to £9.00 in our local Tesco -- original price about £17 or so.

HTH.

Still £13.50 in mine