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August 6, 2015
Back-to-School Countdown Day 4: Prepare For School Paperwork
Back-to-school on the horizon? Here comes the paperwork!
Today in the Organized Home Back-to-School Countdown, we're preparing for the paper flood ahead.
Each school day, children's backpacks grow paperwork like leaves on trees. Permission slips and lunch menus. Sports rosters and progress reports.
Keep them organized by setting up a simple filing system to track and hold school paperwork.
Read More >>Back to School Countdown
August 5, 2015
Back-to-School Countdown Day 3: Organize Information and Contacts
The start of school brings a brisk new tempo to the household, sweeping away the sweet leisure of summer--and the first day of school can bring an unwelcome splash of busy reality.
Will you be ready? Get organized now to sail into school with ease!
On Day 3 of the Back-to-School Countdown, we focus on information, contacts and appointments. It's time to gather paperwork, start a school-year contacts list, and schedule any needed appointments in good time for the first day of school.
&n...August 4, 2015
Back-to-School Countdown Day 2: Build a Budget for Back-to-School
Getting ready for back-to-school with the Organized Home Back-to-School Countdown? It's Day 2 ... and time to hang on to your wallet!
No doubt about it, outfitting the family for a new school year can be a pricey enterprise. Shoes, clothes and school supplies are only the beginning of the financial outlay. Today's parents must add fees imposed by cash-strapped school districts, shared hygiene supplies and deposits for band instruments. Sports and extracurricular activities impose their own d...
Build a Budget for Back-to-School
Getting ready for back-to-school with the Organized Home Back-to-School Countdown? Hang on to your wallet!
No doubt about it, outfitting the family for a new school year can be a pricey enterprise. Shoes, clothes and school supplies are only the beginning of the financial outlay.
Today's parents must add fees imposed by cash-strapped school districts, shared hygiene supplies and deposits for band instruments.
Read More >>Printables:
seasonal_back_to_school_budget.pdf...
August 3, 2015
Back-to-School Countdown Day 1: Print the Ultimate Back-to-School Checklist
Welcome to Day 1 of the Organized Home Back-to-School Countdown!
In spite of August's long and lazy summer days, a new school year is on the horizon. To be ready for the first day of school, there are lists to make and appointments to keep, paperwork to be processed and shopping to be done.
Track them all with this ultimate back-to-school checklist! Free for the printing, it'll help you tick off back-to-school tasks and get organized for a new school year.
Read More >>Printa...Back-to-School Checklist: Gear Up for a New School Year
Welcome to Day 1 of the Organized Home Back-to-School Countdown!
In spite of August's long and lazy summer days, a new school year is on the horizon. To be ready for the first day of school, there are lists to make and appointments to keep, paperwork to be processed and shopping to be done.
Track them all with this ultimate back-to-school checklist! Free for the printing, it'll help you tick off back-to-school tasks and get organized for a new school year.
Read More >>Printa...April 22, 2015
Travel Tip: Custom Packing List
Packing for family travel? A packing checklist can save your sanity--and your vacation. Now it's easy to make a custom online checklist with the Universal Packing List.
An interactive Web page, UPL asks for basic travel information--dates, family members, activities, weather--and generates a comprehensive custom list to guide packing for family travel. Print it out, and you'll never again forget the sunblock!
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Declutter 101: Strategies To Cut Clutter
Taking aim on the household clutter problem, you've resolved to work slowly and steadily, and you've carved out blocks of time to declutter.
Now what? And how?
Time to consider weigh in with specific methods and strategies for decluttering.
These tried-and-tested methods bring different strengths to the fight against clutter. Choose the one that's right for you and your family.
Forcing Decisions: The Four-Box MethodClutter is evidence o...
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Printable 2015 Calendars
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Make 2015 an organized year with these printable monthly calendar pages.
Posted to a family command center or placed in a household notebook, these free printable calendars will keep the family organized the year around.
January 2015 February 2015 March 2015 April 2015 May 2015 June 2015 July 2015 August 2015 September 2015 October 2015 October 2015 (Canadian Thanksgiving) November 2015 Novembe...<![endif]-->
December 26, 2014
Welcome to the New Year Cleaning Challenge
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Christmas has come and gone ... and left a mess behind. Looking around, you wonder how you'll ever dig out in time for Spring!
Solution? Take the Challenge!
Roar into the New Year and clean house fast with the New Year Cleaning Challenge from OrganizedHome.Com.
Based on Katie Leckey's Cleaning Grand Plan, the New Year Cleaning Challenge kicks off 2015 with a 14-week plan to clean and organize a spring-clean house.
Working in small weekly bites makes a b...
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