December 2010

Garden Planner for Notebooks

Free Plans & Printables

I promised that I would get a Garden Journal going for my Home Management Notebook, so here it is. Garden Journal Year XLS : Calculates the dates if you enter your area frost date and tells you what to plant.  Sheet one is Spring, sheet two is Fall. Garden Journal Year PDF:  Print out of [...]

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Home Management Notebook, Step 4

Simplify

Now, let’s put all what we have so far all together. You should by now have a start on: A Basic Weekly Plan–in the Routine Section for now A Home Blessing Hour–in the Routine Section A Financial Blessing Hour–in the Routine Section Zone Chores–in the Routine Section for now Morning Chores–on my wall Evening Chores–on [...]

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Home Management Notebook, Step 3

Simplify

Let’s start with your Basic Weekly Plan.  See how your life is different.  Don’t worry about the stuff at the top right now.  If you aren’t a home schooler or gardener, just leave it up there until you determine that you have no long term projects that are counted in weeks.  If you do have [...]

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Home Management Notebook, Step 2

Simplify

Let’s do some routines. I don’t keep these in my notebooks but I do use them.  Print them out and see how your life is different. Morning Chores Evening Chores A Clean Bedroom Basic Daily Plan The first two are pinned to the wall in the kitchen so the kids know what to do and [...]

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Practically Green: After gifts unwrapped, make clean up green

Green Up

All of the articles I read this year about having a green Christmas were about shopping. But I’m going to assume that, like me, you have already over-bought, the presents are wrapped with new paper and you already have the totally fake or non-organically grown real tree trimmed with incandescent colored lights. No worries. Once [...]

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