Free Printable Personal Organizers, Planners and Calendars

Do your prefer good old paper and pencil planners to smartphone calendars? Maybe you bought an expensive personal organizer, like a Franklin Planner. Good for organizing, if you actually use it. And pretty expensive when you have to buy refill pages every year. So here are Free Printable Personal Organizers, Planners and Calendars

How I Lost 100 Pounds With Fat Burning Food Swaps

I was a chubby child, normal weight in high school and thin in young adulthood. I weighed 110 pounds when I got married and 117 pounds when I went in for my first prenatal check up with my first child. Through four children, I gained 22 pounds per pregnancy, lost it immediately after childbirth and stayed at normal weight. Then, after giving birth to two stillborn babies in 2000 and 2004, taking the antidepressant Paxil and starting early menopause at age 40, I doubled my weight. Right is me in 2011 when I began dieting, though truthfully, not very seriously.



Then I got serious late in 2012.  I learned a lot about weight loss and body reshaping. As I learned new things, I put them into practice. Then the weight started coming off in earnest. I have lost 100 pounds, dropped from size 20 to 3 and shaved off 14 BMI points.How? Several ways: the most important being a total eating makeover. I didn't stop eating or cut out major food groups. That's crash dieting and not healthy. I didn't have surgery or take drugs. Those are temporary band-aids, and don't produce the real changes needed for weight loss.



Literally, I ate my way to thin by swapping less healthy, fat-building foods for healthy fat-busting foodFat-Burning Foods I Ate to Lose 100 Pounds

alternatives and natural herbal supplements. Here are my top 26 fat burning weight loss food from A to Z.

Free Printable Calendars and Date Planner Refill Pages

Do your prefer good old paper and pencil planners to smartphone calendars? Maybe you bought an expensive personal organizer. Great, but now you have to buy refill pages every year. Further expense. You can buy an undated day planner, but then you never know what the date is. How about free printable planner pages to solve your dilemma? Choose size, style and page orientation that you need to fit your personal planner. Select year-at-a-glance, monthly calendar planner pages and weekly planner pages with plenty of room to fill in events under each day. Print the planner pages from your home computer. Free printable 2014 and 2015 calendars and planner pages available.

I've shown one free printable personal organizer page in the image above. Times of the day are listed vertically and days are listed horizontally. This free printable schedule is extremely useful for teachers and homeschoolers. Fill in blocks with lesson times, special activities (gym, art, music class, assemblies, etc.) field trips, etc. Parents and homeschoolers can use to organize meetings, music lessons, dance lessons, sports, doctor appointments, chores, etc. Print off several of these weekly charts, one for each member of the family. Read on for free printable personal planner pages and calendars.

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Organize a Graduation Open House, Cheap, Easy Recipes and Tips

May and June mean graduation open houses. Are you hosting an open house? Here are some tips for planning an easy, inexpensive, festive buffet. This party planning guide includes recipes, serving and cleanup tips, crowd control and guest organization. If you are Type A OCD ADD DIY parent like me, you manage the whole show and not make time to visit. Here are planning, purchasing, preparation, serving and clean-up tips for a perfect open house. Graduation Party Food Tips: Plan a Festive Graduation Party Buffet Without Going Broke or Crazy!

Free Printable 2013 Calendars for Parents, Kids

One of the best ways to teach a child to be organized is to help them follow a daily calendar or schedule. Here are free printable 2013 monthly and weekly calendars, personal organizers and schedules for kids. Many are coloring page calendars, too. Free printable coloring page calendars make great math and time lesson plans for elementary and special needs students. Keep preschoolers busy when older siblings aren't in school with these printables. You might even use these free printable coloring page calendars are birthday or holiday gifts for family and friends.  Read more

How I Paid Off $22,000 in Student Loan Debt in 18 Months

I paid off $22,000 in student loans accrued for my college age kids in 18 months. How did I accomplish this? What secrets did I use? My strategies for loan repayment are no different than those I used for paying off other debt. My secrets are organization, promptness and aggressive cost-cutting. I also use the old Nike shoe maxim--"Just Do It." Here's how it worked.  Read more

Free Printable Halloween Trick-or-Treat Countdown Calendar

Oh the agony waiting can be, especially for little ones looking forward to Halloween. And for the busy mom, a restless child can be a real productivity killer. About a million times a day, they ask "When is (fill in special event)????" Till you want to shriek "If you ask me one more time, NEVER!" Why not turn kids' anticipation into a fun learning experience? Here is a free printable Halloween trick-or-treat countdown calendar. Using this countdown to Halloween, children can mark the days themselves. It's a counting lesson, telling time activity, comprehension builder and personal organizer all in one! And making the countdown calendar will keep fidgety kids out of your hair, erhm, I mean happily busy. And you won't have to worry about what mischief the bored child is finding to occupy herself with! At 3, my youngest once "made a cake" (which included paring an apple, cracking NINE EGGS and scooping out half a jar of peanut butter) all in the space it took me to go to the bathroom! We did salvage it, but I wish I'd had these free printables....! Free Printable Halloween Trick-or-Treat Countdown Calendar 

Best Back to School Personal Calendar, Online Planner, Organizer Apps

Okay, I admit it--I am an organizer-ophile. I find it therapeutic to wander the planner aisle in Barnes & Noble. When I get a new cellphone, the first thing I play with is the calendar function. But I am also a tightwad--I will not pay for online organizers apps or calendar software. And I don't have to, nor do you, when there are so many free personal planner apps available online. Here are best free calendar, personal organizer apps. Personal Calendar, Planner, Organizer Apps

Study Finds Gender Discrepancies in Parent Multitasking

Moms multitask more than dads but enjoy it less, says a parenting study published in American Sociological Review. Here's what the study found about parents and their differing responses to managing multiple responsibilities at once. The study tested 368 mothers and 241 fathers in dual-earner families. Participants were given a wristwatch to wear at work and at home, researchers told NPR's Morning Edition. The watch beeped seven times a day. When it did, participants recorded what they were doing at the time, how many tasks they were performing at once and how they felt about it.  Study Finds Gender Discrepancies in Parent Multitasking

Tips to transition from school to summer schedule

Raise your hands, parents, if there are parts of summer vacation that you secretly dread. For kids, it's three months of freedom. For parents, summer break often means less structure, child care difficulties, work-play juggling, added responsibilities and all the headaches those entail. Here are ways to peacefully transition from school to summer break schedules. Read more here  Tips to transition from school to summer schedule

Free Printable Checking Account Forms

If you're teaching your kids about money are working on budgeting yourself, here are activities to help. Money is one of the best subjects to explore when teaching math skills. Units on money math are essential for improving scores on high stakes testing as well. Here are some of the many benefits of instruction in money math:
Coin counting teaches adding and multiplying skills.

Making change teaches subtraction skills.

Calculating sales discounts teaches fractions, decimals and percents.

Profit and loss explains integers

Income and expenses teaches algebra formulas

For printable lesson plans on money click here Free Printable Lesson Plans: Math, Money, Banking, Shopping 

How I'm Keeping My Organization New Years Resolutions - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

If you're like me, making New Year's resolutions is the easy part. I think up a few goals on New Year's Eve, throw salt over my shoulder and toast my success. I'm great for the first few weeks of January, but by MLK Jr. Day, I've pretty much forgotten them. Here are ways I'm not only making but keeping my 2012 New Year's resolutions. Since most of my resolutions involve money, I'll focus on those. I'm also working on increased personal organization, so scheduling and multitasker tips figure heavily in this list, too. Read more at First Person: How I'm Keeping My Financial New Year's Resolutions

Strategies for Coping with Holiday Stress-Induced Relationship Problems

Strategies for Coping with Holiday Stress-Induced Relationship Problems It's one of life's enigmas; the winter holiday season, which is supposed to bring the greatest joy, sometimes causes more feelings of depression and anxiety. Relationships and marriages , says family therapist Rachel Sussman, often suffer holiday-related setbacks. Here's a look at holiday relationship issues, with some first-hand advice about ways to cope. Read more

How to Balance Family, Work, Play, Relationships and Life!

How do you balance work and family? How do you keep up with kids, relationships, love life, career, household finances and still remain relatively sane? I've held down a job, homeschooled four kids and survived to tell the tale. Here are some tips that work for me. Read more...

How to Keep from Going Nuts When Guests Stay Overnight

The holidays represent different things for different people. For many people, the holidays mean parties, entertaining and house guests, which means extra work and preparation. Can you be a good hostess and set boundaries for house guests? Absolutely. Use this guide anytime you have house guests. Read on...

Free Printable Calendars, Organizers, Planners for Kids

One of the best ways to teach a child to be organized is to help them follow a daily calendar or schedule. Here are free printable 2012 monthly and weekly One of the best ways to teach a child to be organized is to help them follow a daily calendar or schedule. Here are free printable 2012 monthly and weekly calendars, personal organizers and schedules for kids. Many are coloring page calendars, too. Free printable coloring page calendars make great math and time lesson plans for elementary and special needs students. Click here.

How to Multitask for Parents

Today's world demands that we wear about five hats all at once! Multi-tasking is an essential skill. So here is a guide for parents who need to be in several places and do several things all at the same time! A note of caution, however, it is not healthy emotionally or physically to be 'on jump' all the time. If you run in high gear all of the time, your engine is gonna quit much sooner. Here's how to multitask when you need to. Read on...

Free Printable Calendars, Personalized Color Your Own

Do you keep a personal or family calendar? If you're like me, you have several calendars. Here is a tool to personalize, customize and design your calendars. Make coloring page calendars with animal, Bible, holiday, fantasy and cartoon character calendars. Read more...

Printable Thanksgiving Calendar, Craft Activity

Countdown calendars are a great math teaching tool for children to help them learning to organize, count and measure time. Here's a free printable countdown to Thanksgiving calendar. Fun craft activity keeps children productively occupied as the countdown the days to the Thanksgiving holiday. Read more

Easy Ways to Get Organized for Winter

Easy Ways to Organize Your Possessions, Your Home, Your Schedule and Your Life Does your life feel out of control, chaotic, disorganized and overwhelming? Here are easy, free tips to organize, purge, free up resources and live simply. These tips won't cost you anything except the loss of a massive load of stress. Read More