Finishing up the Binder!

So I am off today and hubs is at work, so I am using this time to finish up my binder. As I said last time Finance is the most important part of this family binder to me- because it is the biggest mess! I found a great workbook at Consumer Credit that is free to print out and so easy to set up! So on to my next sections!

I decided that I needed some kind of calendar for the family to be able to look at and see what is coming up over the next few week- I get mine from Google Calendars (it's a tab at the top of my Google Mail). You can print these weekly or monthly. I went with weekly for this one and labelled it Weekly Plans. For the monthly ones (I use those to look at my monthly menu and my monthly bills)  you can print out from current to a certain date, on the weekly ones I was able to print out this week and the next 3 weeks. This will also have anything that you put into your Google Calendar printed out on there. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to get my iPhone Calendar onto my Google one, but until then I will hand write it in. Another cool source is Calendar Labs, they ended up printing better than my Google ones.

Next I decided on Work Receipts. This is an important one for my house because hubs has to buy some of his own tools for work and occasionally those tools break while in warranty. I have not yet found what I will use for this but leaning toward bradded envelopes- either 6x9 or 9x12. This will also help for taxes at the end of the year- though we usually do not spend more that the standard deduction so it ends up being a mute point.

Last for now is Small House Receipts. This is where I plan to put receipts from smaller household purchases- small appliances, parties, kids gadgets, etc. This way I will have the receipts handy if I over buy for a party and want to return stuff or if the small appliance breaks within warranty. Large home stuff (new roof, add ons, etc.) will go in my Finish Rich File Folder System.

In case you actually counted, that is only 7 labels so technically there is one left. I have left this one open to see what comes up. I am debating a kids label, but really anything they will need to do will be in the weekly calendar.

Now that I am this far into setting it up, I will have to get on using it. I am going to read through Start Over Finish Rich again and work on putting it together for next weekend!