I’m so excited that I finished a task I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. I completed a home management binder! I got inspired earlier this year by the ladies at Passionate Homemaking. I had started pieces of the binder here and there, so it felt good to finally get it all into one place.

I love the inventory lists (there’s a separate page for pantry). Now I can see at a glance what exactly is in my deep freeze in the garage! The true beauty of the binder is in the dry erase markers. I inserted the printed page, but I can write and erase on the page protector to use and reuse the binder. For example, if I use a roll of ground turkey, all I have to do is wipe off one of the marks on the page.

This is the chores section. I have been practicing this schedule for some time now. I repeat the same chores each day of the week, then preform other chores weekly, and others monthly. These pages help me keep track of that.

This is the highlight of the binder – the meal planning section. Ever since I quit eating flour and sugar a couple of months ago, I created three weeks worth of meal planning following the new diet restrictions. My binder features each week’s menu printed, with the grocery list needed for those meals on the right side of the page. The next page (shown to the right) has inserts for each of the recipes I need for that week. I am so excited to have this all in one place and organized.

Other sections of the binder include to-do lists and calendars, health, church, baby/pets, holiday gifts and goals.  The binder also honors my husband’s desire to reduce clutter, because now I finally have a place to put all those scraps of paper I use to write notes to myself. This type A mom loves planning!