Home Binder System - How To Declutter And Organize

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1. The Information Merry go Round 3 2. Start Your Planning with a Master List 4 3. More Planner Ideas 6 4. Building Your Planner 10 5. Eleven Home Binder Categories 11 6. 24 Home Binder Templates 23





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1. The Information Merry Go Round

Are you in an information merry go round?

Whether its info for the summer holidays, Christmas must do's, school work, school information, schedules, vacation lists, menu planners, grocery shopping lists, work to do's, recipes that need filing or even that invaluable list of available babysitters. Having all these pieces of paper at your fingertips is critical to the smooth running each day of your home and life.

So stop the paper hide and seek!

How will a Home Binder System help you?

? Your Organizer will help you instantly put away and access paper information for the entire family. Every family member can file and access the information.

? You design your Organizer to fit the information you need to control and choose the categories that are the most relevant for you.

? You can start small, get used to the lists and planners and start the habit of checking your Organizer daily.

? You'll massively decrease your "mental to do" clutter because once you write it on the master list and set a "to do" date it is much easier to take action.

? It's user friendly and low maintenance.

? You control how much information it holds. If sections get too large you can start a separate organizational binder for that topic.

? The system can be changed anytime to suit your family's changing size, activities and needs.

? Nothing gets lost and all information is at your finger tips.

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2. Start your Planning with a Master List

The purpose of the Master to do Planner is to take all the clutter out of your head and on to the page. Initially this is the where you write down all your must do's, should do's and need to do's and especially all the undones in your life. The purpose is to fill up the page so you can see what you need to organize and get done. All the "to do's" in life come in different shapes and sizes and difficulty. This list when done may include errands, painting projects, repairs, shopping, personal goals, mending, craft projects, chores you want your family to do, phone calls and e-mails to return, cleaning or removal jobs or even what you wish you could get done, plus all sort of to do odds and ends.

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Be Free Master To Do List

Must do's, should do's; and incompletes

put on correct planner

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3. More Home Binder Ideas

How to use the templates

When you have written all the" to do's" on your master list you can fill out the other planners. Repairs are written on your repairs planner, errands are put on your weekly "to do" planner and grouped according to location, time and need. Ongoing projects are put on the project planner and broken down into smaller doable parts and chores are listed on a daily, weekly or monthly planner.

Calendars: Every family needs one calendar to fill in activities. Most families prefer a wall calendar that everyone can see. If you don't like this idea put your family activity calendar in the front of the planning section.

Weekly Planner: This template lets you plan your week. If you know Tuesday is busy add more "to do's" on Wednesday. The idea is this planner gives you a chance to look at the week as a whole and pace yourself.

Morning checklist: Using this template will calm the frantic rush of the school morning. A checklist outlines morning routines. If you have ever left your home with vitamins untaken or a child with teeth unbrushed, two seconds looking at the morning checklist will solve this problem.

Evening checklist: The best way to get organized in the morning is to start the night before. Clothes laid out, rooms picked up, school lunches organized and story time met. Outlining the necessary tasks for your evening and your children means everything gets done and nothing forgotten

Repair List: List repairs and small jobs that need to be done around the house. If you need any supplies for the repair you may want to include a hardware store shopping list so it's a one stop shop and there are no re-runs back to the store.

Other Planners: You may need to add work schedules, events lists, special projects, party planner and volunteer work. Take a lined page use a three hole punch and your information can be added to your Organizer.

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Organizing Tasks and Incompletes

Once you write down absolutely everything on your Master to do Planner you now have choices. Your undone tasks, incompletes and messes fall into seven categories.

Tasks that need to be made into routines: Some of your to do's are recurring and predictable. They are slotted into a daily or weekly cleaning/housekeeping/organizing routine

Tasks that can be delegated to family members: Tasks such as cleaning rooms, making beds, and chores for children can be delegated. These tasks can be put of chore checklists and put where your kids can see them.

Tasks that need to be done daily: Daily tasks are all the small things that you want completed daily so you can wake up in the morning and start the day with new and fresh with all or most of yesterday's tasks done.

Tasks that are long term projects: If you have any incomplete craft, repair, redecorating projects your planner will help you make the choice to let it go or to make a plan to complete it

Tasks that need to be grouped together to be done: You create free time when you group errands together instead of making several trips. These tasks can be listed on a weekly planner.

Tasks that are seasonal: Do you have car or home maintence that needs to be done every six months or so? Do you have quarterly or seasonal tasks? Things such as storing and cleaning and decluttering seasonal clothes, garden maintenance can be listed on a yearly planner. All you need to do is look it at once a month and you know what action you need to take.

Tasks that need to be let go of: I often think of unfinished craft projects or woodworking projects and stuff you are stashing away to do one day. You may want to reconsider and let these things go.

Setting a date and time to do any task is being organized and efficient. Everything will get done. Write it down, get help if you need it and be consistent. If you find life intervenes and you cannot do your task just reschedule. You will be amazed at what you can accomplish.

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Monthly Calender One of the most important planning tools is your monthly calendar. Writing down where and when activities take place will help you see when you have the time to declutter and organize, where cleaning and errands and grocery shopping fit in your life. We all have busy days and by using a monthly calendar and the planners your free time, down time and fun time become as important as all your household tasks. You can use your calendar on the wall, have a separate calendar for each child to mark school activities and project due dates or use it to plan your household management. Use it as a guide to keep you on track and be flexible as to what you can do.

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