Notebooks for Home and Family Organizing

The Unclutterer recently re-posted one of her articles about using notebooks to organize your family and home life:

Notebooks are great because they keep all of your important papers in one place and they are easily portable. In our home, we have a recipe notebook, appliance notebook (instruction manuals, purchase receipts, maintenance and repair receipts, and warranty information), and important information notebooks for all four of us (our cat even has one).

We store these notebooks in a place where we can find them quickly, easily spot if someone hasn’t returned the notebook to its shelf after use, but in an area that has minimal guest traffic. Our personal notebooks are valuable to us and we would be devastated if we lost them, so most of the information in them has also been scanned and then the files backed up online.

I recently bought a cardboard portfolio to house a lot of my manuals and warranties, as I found them a bit unwieldy to try to put in any sort of notebook or binder. I have a small notebook where I’ve started to keep a list of furniture and rug measurements and floor plans for a redecorating project. I’ll also paste in clippings and color swatches, and maybe even some photos of the room I’m working on so I’ll have a visual reference when I shop.
How about you? Do you use notebooks to organize household projects and family information?
Read more at Organizing your home and family with notebooks | Unclutterer.

One thought on “Notebooks for Home and Family Organizing”

  1. I’m sorry this is unrelated to your post, but on the off chance you didn’t know, Piccadillyonline.com has their Essential Notebooks (very like Moleskine) back in stock. I wasn’t aware that they had gone away, though I do remember something about one of the bookstores no longer carrying them. Borders, maybe? (I just remember that it is a store we don’t have here in Canada).

    Anyway, if you and/or your readers would like to stock up on Piccadilly’s Essential Notebooks, go to http://www.piccadillyonline.com and use the code “ESSENTIAL” for 5% off your order.

    *this is by no means a paid endorsement. I am in no way affiliated with Piccadilly or any other notebook manufacturer. But Clairefontaine, please feel free to call me ;)

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