To conclude our short and sweet series on an organized and frugal back-to-school season, here is a roundup of posts from some of my favorite places online on budgeting for back-to-school shopping and saving money as well.
Oh, and as promised, here are my favorite printables for an organized school year. I use these with my daughter for her lunchbox menu, after-school activities as well as for shopping for her. Yes, we don’t buy much. **laughing**
Meanwhile, on the subject of printables, please feel free to let me know what printables would YOU like to help organize and simplify your lives as moms and home managers and I’ll do my best to create them for you.
To download, just click on the links and the printables will open up in a separate window and you can simply save them on your computer.
After School Activities Planner
Back to School Shopping Checklist
And here are some great posts that offer you practical, actionable and smart solutions on saving money on school stuff, now and all year round:
12 Ways to Save on School Stuff by Life as Mom
Budgeting for Back-to-School Supplies by Money Saving Mom
Back-to-School Shopping Tips by Organized Home
Frugal Back-to-School Traditions by Simple Homeschool
Here are the other posts on back-to-school readiness on The Mom Writes, in case you missed them. Hope these posts help you kickstart your school year on an organized and stress-free note:
7 Smart Solutions for an Organized Back-to-School Season
Budget-Friendly Back-to-School: Savings on School Must-Haves
Frugal Hacks for Back-to-School Shopping
Prepare Your Home for a Happy School Season
How will you kickstart an organized, stress-free and happy school season at your home? Share with me in the comments!
Prerna, your post reminds me to organize to handle stress, definitely.. simple efforts in organizing helps us reduce stress. That leaves me – I will kickstart an organized, happy and stress free school season at home by involving my son into the whole process planning and organization. He loves to help with that and we both enjoy structure, but big its lacking now. It is time to bring in back some structure with an ease of course.
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Hi Prabha, thank you! I agree, organization and structure really help keep things nice and streamlined.. My daughter is only 4.5, but she LOVES her routine and structured days. Hope you’re able to bring back the structure you need into your everyday life soon!
Prerna… I like.. I like… I have loads of these on excel format and find it easier to type when at work… (when my brains work overtime)… and then print.. so I have a ‘lunch box’, ‘review work’, ‘cleaning schedule for kids’, ‘activities timetable’…. Etc… etc…
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Hi Patricia, Thank you! Glad you liked the lists:-)
These are awesome!! I make these lists for lunch box menus and for planning my blog content. Thanks for sharing yours.
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Thanks Swapna. Yeah, I have a blog editorial calendar template and a marketing calendar template too.. Hmm, maybe should share those too:-)
This is a keeper, Prerna, although I use sticky notes on my phone these days, I remember making these charts on paper and glueing them on kitchen walls!
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Okay the Back to School Shopping Checklist is my favorite. I would love to have you link this up to Titus 2 Tuesdays on Cornerstone Confessions. Hope to see u there.
Kathy
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Thanks for the printables ! My kids help me fill in the After School Activities one with their own schedules. Even though I keep their schedule on my phone, the print out of their activities taped to the wall is so much more convenient.
You are most welcome, Kathleen. I agree.. I have the after school activities penciled into my planner but the printable in front helps me a LOT as well!