So is this going to change my life?

[fullmoonfiend]

...I feel like such a saddo. After 4 weeks of really struggling to remember the musical instruments on the correct days, the money for the panto trip, the bloody tins for harvest festival, the party invites etc etc for 2 kids, I have finally succumbed to one of those Organised Mum calender wall chart thingies.

Please someone tell me it will transform me into a super-organised being?

Or will I just forget to look at the sodding thing

sounds impressive but was it exactly & where was it from? i work in a spirit of organised chaos but cd do with a bit less stress, wd it help with that, then?

I'm an organised chaos bunny too RTTH, but whereas I've always coped with the 4million things to remember in the past, now I'm working 5 days a week, I am just going into stressy meltdown trying to cover everything. Came perilously close to forgetting godson's 1st birthday which would have been the end of a long and beautiful friendship!

It's from here

oh, looks good. which one have you gone for and do you need stickers to make it worthwhile, then?

I just use my diary, if i's not in there it doesn't get done!

Couldn't be faffed with a calender!

I have recently brought one and its stopped me from leaving the house without the swimming stuff twice so far

I take your point Northerner - er, but i do have a diary and I tend to stick in my hndbag, and forget to look at it, or leave it at work. etc. I am terminally disorganised and ditzy at the moment
I figured having this thing stuck on my kitchen door would mean I couldn't not see it every day and would also free up my fridge door for the 1million bits of paper etc magnetted on there at present. Alos - and this is important - dh can also see at a glance that I am going out, or dsses are supposed to be at a pary or, even, ''oh look it's my mum's birthday next week, perhaps i should get her a present...''

Yeah, well, like that'd ever happen

does is start this sept then?

yeah, which is another bonus for me, as sept-dec always seems to be rammed with stuff to remember in this house.

I have it pinned next to the front door so theres 3 of us lingering putting shoes on and someone MIGHT notice whats written on it!

well I have one and I forgot ds had swimming today! Only helps if you remember to put things on the calendar

I have a school organiser calendar but tbh, don't look at it much.

In my office I have an organiser that I write everything in - even down to tomorrow I've got

Travel cot
Guest bed
Kids bedding
Hoover upstairs

Otherwise I will just not do these things and we have people coming!

I write down EVERYTHING including posting bills, get ds's football kit ready etc etc. Because of this, I rarely forget to do anything - all the mums at school think I'm mega organised. It's cos I'm a list fiend.

I bought one of the Home Planner calendars, they are quite big, I've stuck it on the side of my fridge freezer so that every time we walk into the kitchen we can't miss it, lol. You get some stickers with it, like birthdays, special days, appointment etc, but I also bought other stickers like 'I ate my tea' 'I tidied up' 'I'm so proud of you' The squares on the calendar are quite big so can hold a bit of info. Overall I think it's a good calendar

I have one of those family calenders on the fridge with a space for each of us, this is backed up by an online yahoo calender.

You can put in activities and repeat them each week, it will send reminders to your e.mail and yahoo messenger. I look at it to see whats on tomorrow and time the reminders to give me time to prepare for stuff. Like a reminder bing bongs on Sunday night to remind me to pack DS's bag for swimming, then it does it again in the morning to remind me to get him to take the bag.

I am doing fly lady so have established an eveing routine that includes checking calender and getting stuff ready. Bags get checked for letters the minute they get in the door, forms filled out and straight back into bags, activities etc written on calender and entered into yahoo calender too.

I am begining to see the benefits of dealing with straight away.

I've got one of these white boards - I update it from the diary each week but means stuff like library book - the weekly stuff only needs to go on once - have it by the back door.

I have created a weekly spreadsheet which I print every sunday night and fill in details of who is doing what at what time each day. It is on the fridge for anybody to see. I even put the daily meal planner for the au pair there. It works for me, although it is a bit of a pain on Sunday night to transfer all the activities from the diary onto it.

Weekly spread sheet sounds like a good idea.

It's come! It's ace! My fridge is now devoid of a million bits of paper!
I forgot nothing this week...Now just have to get organised with housework