Household Binder

Now, for my household binder...I can't take much credit for this one either, pretty much everything that I have in here is from Jen at iheartorganizing.  All of the pages that came in my packet I bought from her Etsy shop (found here), that I didn't put in my Budget Binder went in this binder.  I don't think I will use ALL of them (like the pet sitter notes because well, we don't have a pet), but will use most of them. Here is the cover for our Household Binder...

Isn't it cute?? I really do love the colorful pages and cover that I purchased!

Ok, now for the tabs I chose... (please excuse the shadows in the pics)

The "Calendar" tab has the following sheets: Daily Goals, Week-at-a-Glance, an Important Dates sheet to write down birthdays, anniversaries, etc., and then a full page calendar for each month.

The "Meal Planning/Food Inventory" tab is just that.  A sheet that has a week on it where you write down what you are going to have for breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner. It looks like this...

Then I have a sheet that has what we are going to eat each day, and a shopping list next to it. So you can make sure you have all the ingredients for the meals you have planned.

Then there are Pantry, Fridge, and Freezer Inventory sheets.  I am not sure if I am going to use these yet, but they're there if I want to.

Next tab is "Home Maintenance," this tab has a cleaning checklist broken down into daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual categories.

Behind that sheet is a Home Maintenance Checklist with so many things on there that we all know need to be done, but we forget about until there is a problem with it.  Check out iheartorganizing on Etsy here to get yours too! After that I put the Home To Do Checklist, that we all know can be a never-ending list...seriously, there's always something I want to change, buy, paint, etc.

The "Auto Maintenance" tab only has 2 sheets in it for us, one for the Jeep and one for the Tahoe. This is one of those pages that I wouldn't have taken the time to create myself, but since it came in the packet I bought...I will definitely use it! :)

Onto the "Important Info/Contacts" tab.  In the front of this section I have a clear page with pockets for business cards that I jacked from an old business planner I had. Jen uses a baseball card holder sheet that works equally as well.  Then I have the Contact List sheet that I am going to write emergency contacts down on for our sitter when we go to Vegas. This way she will have the top 5 people to call if she needs something and can't get ahold of us. All of my addresses are now in a alphabetized Excel spreadsheet, so that's where they'll stay, I'm not switching them over to these sheets. After that, comes the Important Info sheet that contains pretty much every number you need...bank phone numbers, plumber, HVAC, Water, Electric, Insurance, etc., etc.  you get the point.

The "Babysitter Notes" tab has this sheet (well, a few copies of this sheet anyways).

I really liked this sheet, you can get it personalized for 1 or more kids, so you can write down specifics for each kiddo! Plus, all that other important info they might need while you're away for a few hours.

Now, the "Miscellaneous" tab...this one contains all the other lists that came in my packet that I won't use on a regular basis.  It includes the following: Travel Checklist (using this one for Vegas baby!!), Outing Ideas, Media Inventory, Checkout System (for if a friend borrows a movie or toy, write it down...then when you are looking for it, you'll know exactly where it went), Party Plans, Gift Giving Plan (I may move this to the budget binder to make sure I don't go over when buying gifts), Password Log (I am funny about writing my passwords down...don't think I will use this), Blog Ideas/Topics (I should use this one more hehehe), and Pet Sitter Notes (again, won't be using this one since we don't have a pet to sit LOL).

There you have it, our "Household Binder"!! I love it and hope y'all do too!!