Many of you know, how I enjoy to come up with ways to lessen our paper usage. Last spring I shared our School Binders and Page protectors. I got to thinking this year as I was printing and making homeschool forms for our school that it would be nice to do something similar for our daily, weekly and monthly lists. I came up with the idea to use overhead projection sheets over those forms. Below, I will share pictures of our household book that I have put together. This year, I am using one book that include both our homeschool and our household information.
After much prayer and a lot of reading of reviews, and looking over samples, I finally bought the 2010-2011 The Schoolhouse Planner from The Old Schoolhouse Store. 
I really like many of the forms that is has. I have used several of them in our book for this year. I also used many of my own from the Large Family Homeschool Forms page. I made the cover for our book and the divider section pages using Microsoft Publisher. I used my new comb binder to bind it. I love having my comb binder and use it regularly around the home and in our homeschool.
To begin the project of designing our book, I selected the different pages that I wanted in our book. From daily, weekly and monthly to do list, to homeschool forms, household forms, medical forms, and a Bible reading plan. They are all in here.
After printing all the pages, I started the punching of the pages for the comb. It took quite awhile, but was worth the time. Next I put the pages in order and put them in the binding comb.
What I love most about this book, is that I can use a wet erase marker each day, week, and month for our to do list and menus.
Here is the cover, I also placed an over head projection page over the cover, to help protect it.
Here is my daily to do list, notice the red text? That is written on the over head projection plastic page—tonight I will erase it and write down our to dos for tomorrow. This is one of the TOS planner pages.
Here you can see the plastic is pulled back to give you a better idea.
Here is our weekly planner. I have our menu, a brief homeschool plan, and special housekeeping plan here. I also have my blog post schedule here. This is a TOS planner page.
Here is what my divider pages look like. I made them out of cardstock.
Here is our Bible reading plan for the year. This is one of the TOS planner pages also. I really like how it is broken down.
My comb binder. I really love this gadget. It is one of those, won’t be living without it now that I have one items. 
Do you have your household notebook done? What are your secrets?
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I am a Christian Homeschooling Mom to six beautiful children. I am married to one awesome farmer, who is the second light in my world. God being the first. This blog is about our journeys that God chooses to guide us through. Our struggles that we face on those journeys and our accomplishments. My goal is to offer you a bit of encouragement through my words, because choosing to go against the grain is not always the less bumpy path. 
Love it, mama!! I especially love the idea of the overhead sheets to make certain things re-usable! This will work great for our daily checklist that is mostly
boringconsistent!!PS…I have something for you at my blog! Check it out! Do you have checklists for TOS Crew in there as well. I need to figure out the best way to stay on top of that this year.
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This looks like such a lovely, versatile planner! I have a comb binder on my wish list …
Wow! Thank you for sharing all of your great ideas. I am an organizational wanna-be. You inspire me! I have not even started thinking about the new school year starting!
The comb binder looks very cool, I love gadgets!
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This looks so useful! I may need to do this:)Very organized. I always wonder how people with many kids homeschooling do it!
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What a creative way to use the planner! I may give it a try for my younger kiddos and for menu planning. That comb binder looks really neat! I am making a wish list for “homeschool gadgets” and am adding it.
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Neat! I would love the overhead sheets over pages like the menu planner. I think keeping a paper trail of our weekly homeschool stuff is something I just couldn’t skip, so no eraseable weekly plan for me, but things like the menu I could use that way!
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Great idea and very creative!!
Blessings
Mrs. White
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Thanks for the great ideas; I just might have to buy the 2010-2011 planner. I’m almost to the end of my homeschooling journey (four more years), but I am a firm believer in teaching an old dog new tricks
Blessings.
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Looks GREAT! Thanks for sharing!
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I never thought of using overhead projection sheets and of course, they are made to be written on and wiped off. I tried using the page protectors, but they didn’t always work well. I also like the comb binding because it creates a notebook that takes up less space than the 3-ring binders do.
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The overhead projector sheets over your papers is such a great idea. I love to check stuff off a list so this would be great for me.
Oh dear, I never should have come and seen that comb binder, lol
I have a serious office supply/organizational tool addiction.
That is a super way you have done your planner to make it reusable. I wouldn’t have thought of overhead sheets. (Does anyone still use those anyway? I used to go through reams of them when I was working, but that was a LOONG time ago.)
Boy are you organized! Wanna come to my house???
Looks GREAT!
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HI, on my way thru week 3 of the blog walk-wanted to pop in and meet ya. I don’t have a family notebook thingy like you have, altho I will print off some of the TOS pages and just laminate them to use over and over again. I never seem to go back to em…so I write out stuff on a huge calendar I buy at the dollar store…and wing it-LOL…not a good idea for most tho…been doing this long enough to have it locked into my head for the most part. But I do have the kids do a schedule book for their workboxes, which consists of adding/deleting some different tabs to change it up a bit…that is about as organized as I get…LOL
Have fun this year on the crew.
FM Sheri
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