Simplify Your Life

Organization one of my favorite words....ah the feeling of being organized, and reaping the positive benefits that come along with it.  Our family runs a lot smoother because we have a plan.  Now that's not to stay we're not sometimes 'spontaneous' because we are, but we also don't stumble through life with our eyes closed.

Our family has a weekly meeting on Sunday evenings where we look forward to the week ahead and  make note of our activities and commitments.  Ernie and I have our Google calendars and we sync them up.  We have the grocery list out so we can add things to it and then I hang it on the refrigerator so items can be  marked off for the week.  We plan our budget on an excel spreadsheet an assign each $$ a name before we spend it.  For more useful financial advice follow Dave Ramsey.  We DO!! 

We're teaching out kids responsibility and how to plan ahead and save.  Below are links to a few of my favorite tools.  Next time you go to the grocery store take the list below, you'll be amazed at how smoothly your shopping trip will go.  Use the meal planner and see how much less food you waste.  Start each day, or the evening before, planning out your day with the daily to do list.  Another very useful tool we love is dropbox we organize all our daily documents and have them available to us on any computer or even on the go.

Life is so much better when you live an organized life.

Grocery List (personalize this list in Google docs)

Daily To Do List

Meal Planner

Sources: Dave Ramsey, Life's a Journal, Real Simple, Drop Box