Ideas for this section:
-Master monthly/yearly calendar
-Reference calendars such as a mini yearly calendar with dates for the rest of the year----When is April 12? No more guessing.
-Tickler file (Jan - Dec sections)
I don't currently have a master calendar (other than my weekly household schedule and that's on the wall). But I do have a one sheet yearly calendar.
MASTER MONTHLY/YEARLY CALENDAR (OR WEEKLY)
Some people put kids' school calendars in here, a monthly calendar listing events for this month, such as family/social/extra curricular activities and medical appointments. We don't do any extra curricular/outside activities so I mostly use this to quickly record the date bills were paid or when we changed the cooking gas tank.
Here are some really nice monthly calendar templates:
Month on a Page Household Calendar Refill (Donna Young)
This calendar is ruled on top and the lower part has a list for bills and important dates.
Also check out the other household forms, calendars, and planner pages at this site, they're nice! In fact, I like them more than all the other links combined below. (Although out of the remaining links, the organized home is probably the best).
There are some really nice monthly calendars here:
OrganizedHome.com Calendars
Calendar Creators
Free Printable Calendars
Monthly, weekly, yearly, school calendars, blank calendar grids.
PDF Calendar.com - Creates yearly/monthly calendars in PDF format. Many customizable options available. Not super pretty, but gets the job done.
Create free printable calendars formatted for Microsoft Word - Monthly, weekly, yearly calendars.
REFERENCE CALENDARS
I found a simple calendar creator from DLTK - Free Printable Custom Calendars (monthly or yearly) and there are loads of other places to find other calendars like these including premade ones.
Sample yearly calendar I made from DLTK, You can customize and add graphics.
More Yearly Calendar Creators:
(in addition to those listed in the previous section)
Time and Date.com - Creates yearly calendars for 38 countries. Can show phases of the moon. Can customize (look under other calendars for customization choice)
TICKLER FILE (JAN - DEC)
Don't really think peopled outside of businesses use this term (FlyLady calls them Jan - Dec dividers). In one job I had, we used a tickler file:
"A tickler file is a system for organizing data in such a way that future tasks are recorded and reviewed, routinely, essentially providing a way to send a reminder to oneself in the future, "tickling" one's memory" (Wikipedia)
How it works:
Put a tab divider for each month, Jan - Dec in your binder.
Start with one month, say the current, and list all dates that need to be remembered. In non Muslim applications, birthdays and anniversaries would be noted, but you can put household things that occur in a certain month/certain date, such as seasonal house cleaning jobs, yearly appointments (dentist, etc). In addition, if you are trying to keep in touch with family and friends on a regular basis but need reminders, put those down in lieu of birthdays for example.
Repeat adding events for the rest of the months as you are able at this time, add more as you think of them.
In one homemaker's binder, she just listed the events right on the divider itself.
If something has a specific date, list that date. You can have these reminders be in list form or in the form of a calendar (if you have lots of premade routine dates) and then just list dateless items that need to be remembered below the
calendar.
If desired, you can also make a weekly tickler and list the days of the week, instead of the month, writing down specific events (such as weekly household cleaning) that occur within the week. I just use my weekly household schedule, though and that's posted on the wall. But if you can't fit all those items on a weekly schedule form, then you could use a tickler. One homemaker made a section in this section called weekly cleaning and listed the weekly jobs. I don't have weekly jobs right now scheduled, just our daily jobs, so I may eventually implement this weekly cleaning section idea.
Back to the monthly tickler. Then, and this is the important part, say on the last day of the month, look at the next month's tickler file and take note of events. If you have a monthly master calendar, write these events down and look at your master calendar each night when preparing your to daily do list.
Calendar Section Binder Divider
