Plan to Succeed for an Organized Home
Planning separates the hapless house from the happy home. We've got four tools for keeping an organized and efficient home.
- Excerpted from Houseworks, by Cynthia Townley Ewer
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Finally, give your planning tools a home by creating a family information center, a central location for household planning and information. The family information center works for everyone in the household, and is a valuable resource for babysitters, helpers, or extended family members. With a central location for paperwork, it’s a simple matter for anyone to locate a take-out menu, call this week’s carpool parent, check dates for upcoming events, or figure out what’s for dinner from the weekly menu plan.
Excerpted from Houseworks, by Cynthia Townley Ewer
Text Copyright © 2006, 2010, Cynthia Townley Ewer, extracts from Houseworks, reproduced with permission from Dorling Kindersley Limited
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