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If you’re the one in charge of keeping your household organized, it is a great idea to arm yourself with the best possible tools for the job. That means stocking up on home organization products and also coming up with some clever tactics for keeping track of chores and goals. A household planner notebook is one of the best tools you can use, and it’s something you can easily create on your own with a simple divided binder. Each divider can denote a special section that helps you to organize one aspect of your home.

Household notebook ideas might include:

• Short term projects. Have any household organization ideas or goals for the near-term future? This is a great place to list your projects and include planning worksheets. Spring cleaning is an example of a short-term project that might go in this section. Here you can list all the steps you need to fulfill to accomplish your short-term organizational goals, and also come up with checklists for organizational supplies you need to purchase.

• Long-term projects. Here you can keep your long-term to-do lists for more comprehensive, in-depth projects that may take extra time. Here for example you could include a project like “build a shed.”

• Finance. In this section you can keep track of your budget and expenses, bills you have paid and need to pay, insurance information, and more.

• Menus. Here you can save recipes and plan menus. This is especially helpful if you do week-in-a-day cooking and follow a freezer cooking plan. This section may overlap with your short-term or long-term planning section, especially if you need to organize your kitchen and purchase plastic food bins to help you with your freezer cooking.

• Chores. Help everybody in your household to keep track of the chores they need to do on a weekly or monthly basis. A schedule assures everyone in the household that chores are being distributed fairly, and helps you to keep your home from getting too cluttered or disorganized over time.

• Activities. You can also use your household notebook to plan for fun! Your planner can help you to plan for day trips and longer vacations. A checklist will ensure that you take everything you need and make plans to have someone look after the house while you are out.

Keeping your home organized is an ongoing chore, and the larger your household, the more complicated it can be, and the more easily things can get out of hand. With a household planning notebook on your side, you can easily keep track of your progress toward long-term and short-term organizational goals, and keep everybody in your family involved. With your notebook you can take stock of what you need before you go shopping for organizational projects, and can save money by purchasing the supplies you really need and foregoing those you don’t.