I know many people already a household notebook, but if you don't I suggest you make one this weekend. I learned how important they are during my wedding, when I had a wedding notebook. All of the information I needed for my wedding from caterers to flowers was in one place. After I got married I took the same concept and applied it to my home life.
It's a running joke in my family that my dad has a "guy" for everything. He has a floor guy and a yard guy, he even as a concrete guy. The truth is, it's important to have maintenance people that you trust and would hire again. Whenever I have someone do maintenance at my house and they do a good job, I take their business card and put it in my household notebook. This way I can either hire them again, or if someone ever asks me for a an awesome duct cleaning guy I have his number.
I also put recipes and take out menus into my notebook. You may want to use a separate binder for these things, it just really depends on how many contacts you have. We are just starting out so we only have one binder, but I'm sure one day we will build up to having more. The good thing is the menus and recipes aren't in a junk drawer or pinned to the fridge, they are organized in one place on my bookshelf.
To make my notebook a little more durable, especially because I use it in the kitchen when doing a recipe, I put each piece of paper in a clear page cover. I also place the business cards into the same pages kids but their baseball cards into. You may be able to find ones especially for business cards, but it was much easier for me to find the baseball card holders.
The point of the binder is to organize your life and all of the little papers that would normally be shoved into a junk drawer and lost or pinned up somewhere in the house, making it look cluttered. This means every so often you should go through the binder and clean it out. I find that the take out places especially go out of business or change their menus so I try to stay on top of cleaning out the old menus.
Having all of your "guys" in one place is going to make your life so much easier. The last thing you want to do when a pipe bursts in the middle of the night is boot up the computer and do a search, trying to remember the name of that company you used that one time. All you have to do is pull out the notebook and flip to the page.
It's a running joke in my family that my dad has a "guy" for everything. He has a floor guy and a yard guy, he even as a concrete guy. The truth is, it's important to have maintenance people that you trust and would hire again. Whenever I have someone do maintenance at my house and they do a good job, I take their business card and put it in my household notebook. This way I can either hire them again, or if someone ever asks me for a an awesome duct cleaning guy I have his number.
I also put recipes and take out menus into my notebook. You may want to use a separate binder for these things, it just really depends on how many contacts you have. We are just starting out so we only have one binder, but I'm sure one day we will build up to having more. The good thing is the menus and recipes aren't in a junk drawer or pinned to the fridge, they are organized in one place on my bookshelf.
To make my notebook a little more durable, especially because I use it in the kitchen when doing a recipe, I put each piece of paper in a clear page cover. I also place the business cards into the same pages kids but their baseball cards into. You may be able to find ones especially for business cards, but it was much easier for me to find the baseball card holders.
The point of the binder is to organize your life and all of the little papers that would normally be shoved into a junk drawer and lost or pinned up somewhere in the house, making it look cluttered. This means every so often you should go through the binder and clean it out. I find that the take out places especially go out of business or change their menus so I try to stay on top of cleaning out the old menus.
Having all of your "guys" in one place is going to make your life so much easier. The last thing you want to do when a pipe bursts in the middle of the night is boot up the computer and do a search, trying to remember the name of that company you used that one time. All you have to do is pull out the notebook and flip to the page.
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