Do you feel a lack in the area of home organization? Are you looking for a tool to help you stay focused and most productive in your life? I was recently given a subscription to List Plan It for my review and have been impressed by the wealth of resources this company has to offer to give you the tools to increase your productivity in all areas of life. Through a yearly subscription, you can have access to over 500 different lists to assist in keeping your world in order, from organizing business, family matters, home, holidays, meal planning, finances, contacts and so much more. Each list comes in pdf form allowing you to print or edit as desired for your own unique use. I like being organized but I was almost overwhelmed by all the different lists, and although I personally wouldn’t use a quarter of the lists available, the remaining lists will definitely help manage my household and time more wisely or provide inspiration for my own lists. There are 10 (out of 15) of the main categories that applied to my life, so I felt I could tackle getting more organized in one category per month. I have found the weekly planning lists to be very helpful for my personal weekly planning outing. Inspiration is flowing for revamping my homemaking notebook.
ListPlanIt.com would like to offer 1 reader a chance to win a Download Membership ($30 value). Once set up as a member, you have access to the hundreds of lists and planning pages available. You can choose to view each page, print the ones you want, type in your own information, and save them to your own computer for future use for 1 full year.
To Enter:
1. Tell us what area in your life could use some more organization and one strategy you are taking to achieve it. Share your thoughts in the comments below.
2. For a second entry, share about this giveaway on your blog or facebook page. Make sure to enter a second comment with your link.
3. For a third entry, follow Jen, founder of ListPlanIt on twitter. Let us know in a separate comment.
Giveaway Ends: Monday, March 1, 2010 at 5:00 pm PST.
I would love to have more creative ways to be organized! Papers are my problem area. I’m working on spending a bit of time regularly (with a 2.5 year old and 4 month old) to work on organizing and filing.
I am trying to plan out our meals better and not buy so much at the store – just because it’s on sale doesn’t mean I need it!
I could really use help of organization in my kitchen. Especially in the area of meal planning beyond just planning dinners and also keeping inventory of what I have on hand. I’d love to try out List Plan It!!
I need help with keeping organized. I am homeschooling my 7 year old and my 3 year old was recently diagnosed with Leukemia. It’s been very difficult to balance housework, homeschooling and taking care of a chronically ill child. I could use a lot of help. I make lists now, but they aren’t very organized or well planned. I actually came across list plan it a few weeks ago and forgot all about it.
My biggest planning/organizing challenge lately has been de-cluttering to make room for a new baby coming in April! I have a “Baby Battle Plan” on my fridge with deadlines for certain areas of the house and a few baking days to prepare freezer meals. My plan is to be all ready by week 37. Hopefully baby doesn’t decide to come earlier! Lists REALLY help me – there is such a satisfaction in crossing things off!
The two areas I most need to bring structure and organization to are weekly housekeeping jobs and menu planning. I’ve recently outlined which housekeeping jobs get done on which day of the week (ex: laundry on Tuesday, bathrooms on Wednesday, vacuuming on Frday, etc.) and I’ve started planning my menu out a full month in advance. So far it’s helping!
I am a mother of five children and have started meal planning and planning chores for each child. This would be the biggest blessing to my family. I love to plan and be organized. The past six months I have start to cook naturally and all types of planning spreadsheets would be most helpful to pull this off at 100%. Have a wonderful day!
Hi, I am usually a very organized person but last September my father and sister was killed in a tragic car accident. ALong with raising my three kids and being a wife who has to bake and cook from scratch because of her eldest son’s many allergies I now have to handle the estate of my father’s home. My very organized life have become disorganized because of the deaths but also at having to address all of my father’s business with his home, business, and well, him. I find myself not being able to focus even to make the lists. This would be more than a blessing but could also be a life saver! Thank you for the opportunity!
I could use this for meal planning especially to track the prep that needs to happen in advance when preparing whole foods. Since this is new to me, any help I can get is awesome! I am sure household chores and finances would benefit as well.
I announced this giveaway on my blog!
http://athomewithkare.com/2010/03/01/its-another-great-giveaway/
I am trying to get a homekeeping binder put together and get organized in general before October/November which is when my new little one is due. I know if I don’t do it before then I will have a hard time trying to handle the transition between working mom and stay at home mom with two littles under 2 years.
I have been reworking my meal planning/fixing/cooking agenda, since that takes so much of my time. I use mostly Nourishing Traditions, frugal kinds of meals. I have found recently that if I plan about 5-7 dinner meals a week, we have leftovers for lunch, and I can stick to about $70/week as I plan meals. I had been spending much more than that, but planning each thing I need to buy, writing it down, and guessing how much each will cost has really helped. I would love to win this giveaway, to become more organized with this and other areas (cleaning, time management). Thanks.
Meal planning, household organizing, my life (need I say more?):-)
Thanks for the wonderful site! I love coming for visits!
My whole life needs organizing!!!
I try to plan meals a week at a time.
I most definately need help with housekeeping. I honestly do not know how sahm can keep the house clean, kids fed, errands run. There are things I am good at but my housekeeping is not one of them.
Lists are my love language! My family makes fun of the way I write lists, but I cannot keep anything straight without them. As a single mom, who works at home it’s essential for me to use lists to help me organize my family’s time, budget, etc. This would not only add a little fun to it, but be practical.
I posted this on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/gtinamoulton
I would love to be more organize in homeschooling, and meal planning!
I’m following Jen on twitter now.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/julie.witkowski?ref=profile My facebook page showing the post.
I am trying to organize my cleaning. I have followed websites, tried certain days for certain chores. But I need some more work:)
I have been working to meal plan weekly and would love some help! I also really want to tackle a housecleaning schedule!
Papers from school! Trying to deal with it as it comes home and having a dedicated basket.
I just followed on Twitter @ TheModestMom
We are really needing to do better with our early morning chores. I have started making a chore chart for my children and I to help us with that.
I am in desparate need of organisation in my shopping lists (and cleaning). At the moment I am trying to write down all the things that need to be on those lists. Then I will try and type up a resuable list.
I follow ListplanIt on Twitter
Which area? Singular? Hmph. Blogging, sleep, prayer life, menu planning, phone calls, writing goals, etc. All areas!
I just followed Jen on Twitter (as karebiz)
Wow, after looking over the site, I could use quite a few of these forms. I think the ones that would be the most helpful to me would be those to do with menu planning, and household organizing.
Thank you for the chance to enter this contest, Lindsay!
Meal planning, I sooo need help with planning the meals around here.
I struggle with organizing my future activities. I would like to be able to easier plan for clothing for the kids in the next year (to be able to make better use of garage sales, etc.) and know who and what I want to give/make for everyone for Christmas. I want to…dun dun dun…ORGANIZE THE FUTURE!!
I’m attempting this by keeping my calendar close at hand.
Food prep & meal organization!!! I am working on creating a new food binder & I am also working on organizing recipes- getting them into my computer & then making a recipe card to laminate.
This giveaway is now on my facebook page! Thanks!
I am continually working on organizing my kitchen after several weeks ago my cluttered countertops caused me to lose our family’s dinner to the floor! I am a major lists person, so I’m thinking this may help me to plan meals & grocery shopping more efficiently which would spill over into the organization of my kitchen (pun intended).
I need help organizing time. I am great at organizing my home and stuff, but not great at time management sometimes.
I have a 2 year old, a one year old, and am expecting my third one in a few weeks. I have found that I HAVE to be extremely organized in just about every area of my life or things quickly descend into complete chaos. I am working on small organization projects that I can do in short segments while the children are occupied. I need help with menu organization, and getting into a cleaning routine that works a little better than the one I currently have.
I need serious help getting things in order. I have more junk drawers than real drawers and can’t get a handle on the paper coming in every day!
Here’s the link to my Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/#!/sellsie
It’s hard to choose one area that needs more organization! I feel that meal planning, housework, and budget are all areas that would benefit from such a wonderful resource. If I have to pick one area…meal planning.
I would definitely use this for organizing meal planning, finances, and housework. What a blessing this would be!