Life tips blogger Kristin loves the household notebook concept, but adds a big "But!": information you shouldn't include in your household notebook.

If your notebook fell into the hands of a stranger, what information would it disclose? Get Kristin's guidelines for keeping your family binder a friend, and not a security risk:

What You Should NOT Put Your Home Organizer

Just in time for autumn sports: a free printable first-aid guide from Band-Aid.com.

Print it out and tuck one copy in the first aid kit, another in the Household Notebook. You'll be ready to respond to the season's bites, bumps, scrapes or stings:

Printable First Aid Guide

Personal organizers are hot, hot, hot. Smart home managers tackle time management and goal setting with the help of an all-in-one calendar, scheduling and information retrieval tool.

Families need a organizer, too! Whether it's called a household notebook, a home management binder or family organizer, this simple idea saves time, cuts stress, and enhances communication in any-sized family or household.

A standard-sized binder stocked with calendars and schedules, planner forms and inventories, a Household Notebook creates a one-stop information center for busy families. Whether it's a carpool schedule or a co-worker's phone number, the Household Notebook holds the information you need to check each day.

When blogger Elizabeth and her friend Kim took on the challenge to create household notebooks, they aimed high.

Deciding to create more than just a simple binder for household information, they envisioned their notebooks as "living books" that would help teach their daughters to keep house.

If you're visually oriented, there may be resistance to the idea of a household notebook. Who wants to flip all those pages ... and what happens when you set the mail down on top of your daily schedule?

Clever blogger Jumping On The Bed has an in-your-face solution: a home management whiteboard. Using a large dry erase marker board, she juggles schedules, lists and information right on the wall. Check out her not-notebook solution for better home management!

Home Management Board

Need inspiration for your notebook? Check out this pretty and personalized household notebook from blogger Such Treasures.

Her hand-decorated cover, custom divider pages and thorough outline of binder contents make this a four-star notebook tour! Get inspired:

Our Household Notebook

Sure, our colored printables are pretty, but they're not for everyone. If your style leans more toward "basic black", you'll like these free printable binder forms from blogger A Virtuous Woman.

Simple planner pages and inventories are there, but so are short lists of cleaning routines for various rooms. In .pdf format, so you'll need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view and print:

Printable Household Notebook Pages