One of the key things to being a domestic goddess is organisation; after all there is no point if sending out an amazing handmade birthday card if it is a month late or a dinner party will be ruined if the main course is ready before the starter.

For a long while I have been a fan of the Organisation Folder system, I started with a Control Journal from Flylady but have since adapted it using ideas from Organised Home and other sites. The idea is simple in the workplace you will have your daily, weekly and monthly tasks, you use tools like Outlook to organised your calendar or address book why not use them in your home.

Our Calender

One of the simplest tools to use to get organised is a calendar. A quick glance of the calendar can remind you of an upcoming birthday, event or public holiday. It is a simple way to keep track of your family members – my husband works shift so when making plans during the week I constantly have to check his work patterns before confirming anything.

I brought this calendar from on of those pop-up calendar shops that are everywhere before Christmas, the his and her columns means we can both keep track of what the other one is doing and is extremely handy when planning meals for the week. I also have a moleskine diary that sits on my desk for more in-depth entries – times of appointments, notes for what I need to do that day.

Finally I use a computer based calendar, last year I discovered Google calendars, by using their shared calendars, first off I would suggest adding the UK public holidays subscription, then look for something relating to you interests, the upcoming cinema release dates, you favourite teams fixtures and finally add family members calendar.

For me the best thing about Google calendar is they synchronization – by installing the sync tool, the calendar can brought together with outlook for an offline copy and then in turn ismy synced to my iPhone so I always have a copy of my calendar on hand, the syncing means I can change an appointment on my phone and it will be updates on all three calendar once I connect my phone to the computer.

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