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Do you want to become more organized in your home, and run a more efficient household? You need to make a home management binder!
In this post, I’ll show you how to make a home management binder so you can keep track of all the important things and have a more smooth running home.
How To Make a Home Management Binder
What is a home management binder?
A home management binder is a simple binder or notebook of things to help you run your home more efficiently. You can include anything and everything from meal planning worksheets to a grocery inventory list to your budget.
What should I include in a home management binder?
Everyone’s home management binder will look a little different. Think about each area of your home and life, and what things you need to keep track of and what will help you run your home efficiently.
Here are some things you can include:
Kitchen:
- Weekly meal planner
- A list of your family’s favorite meals
- Recipes you want to try
- Quick, easy, and cheap meals
- Pantry meal ideas
- Grocery inventory list
- Grocery budget tracker
- DIY cleaning supplies recipes
- Sheet to track when to change water filters
Around the home:
- Paint colors used in your home in case of touch ups (you can tape the paint samples to a piece of paper)
- Sheet to track when to change air filters
- Weekly cleaning schedule
- Home project wish list
- Deep cleaning checklist
- Spring cleaning checklist
- Once a year cleaning checklist
- Cleaning supplies and toiletries inventory list
- List of service and repair companies you have used with phone numbers
- Utility company phone numbers and your account numbers
- HVAC service schedule
Outdoors:
- Outdoor project wish list
- Plant, shrub, and tree details (to know what you planted and how to care for it)
- Outdoor cleaning checklist
- Once a year outdoor cleaning & maintenance checklist
- Outdoor service and repair companies you have used with phone numbers
Personal & Family:
- Pet vaccination schedule
- Kid’s yearly doctor appointments
- Birthdays and anniversaries to keep up with
- Birthday budget worksheet
- Christmas budget worksheet
- Gift ideas for family members
- Daily planner schedule
- Vacation planner (or wish list)
- Password tracker
- Important phone numbers (in case of emergency)
- Emergency plan for family
- Family budget planner (monthly or yearly)
- Savings goal tracker
- Debt payoff tracker
- Kid’s sport and lessons schedule
Obviously, you don’t have to add all of these to your personal home management binder. Pick the things that would help you stay organized and run your home better.
Think about the things you search for often, and what could be consolidated to one organized binder.
You can also add in things like a meal planner, debt tracker, and cleaning schedule to help you plan your week quickly.
Having everything you need in one convenient space will help you stay organized, and plan your weeks out to be more productive and efficient.
You can start by adding just a few things to your binder, and add more as you see a need. No need to fill it up just to have a full binder!
How can I put together a home management binder?
- Start by getting a nice sturdy binder.
- Decide what you want to include in your binder
- Print or create those pages. (Doesn’t have to be fancy!)
- Add dividers with labels for different categories.
- Place your binder in an easy to see and reach place.
- Take a look at your binder once a week to plan out your week (maybe on Sunday).
- Show your family the binder and what pages they may need to reference.
Hopefully by creating a simple home management binder you can organize important information and create a system to plan your week out well.
You don’t have to have a fancy binder or a ton of pages to have a successful home management binder. Think about your needs and what will help you around the home. Make the binder work for you.
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