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Planner Review: Motivated Moms Chore Planner

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FamilyTimeMine winners, your planners are (finally) on their way. I know they didn’t make it time for January 1st, but you should have them by Thursday at the latest.

I have two more planners to give away. I think you’ll be very excited by this first one: the Motivated Moms Chore Planner. I love this thing. (Kathryn wrote about it here.) It’s a download and you print it out yourself. Even though I’m already quite happy with my daily planner, I like the idea of a daily chore planner to help me keep on track in my beautification efforts.

Click below to read the rest of the review and to enter a drawing for a free Motivated Moms chore planner.

There are several versions of the Motivated Moms planner (click here to see them all).
The variable options have to do with size (you can choose between 8 1/2
x 11" and 5.5"x8.5") and configuration (weekly or daily). For each
size/layout combination, there is an option to include a Bible reading
schedule as well.

The version I have is the full size (8 1/2" x 11") weekly planner.
The layout is clean and simple: there are no fancy graphics here. Down
the left side of the page runs a column with checkboxes for daily
chores: make beds, unload dishwasher, and so forth; and there are
blanks for adding your own daily chores as well. These are the things
you do every day, and each chore has seven little checkboxes below it.

The right side of the page is for chores specific to each day. Every
day of the week (it’s a Sunday through Saturday week, which I prefer)
has a list of six or seven tasks to complete that day. Each task is
finite and simple: clean out purse, change handtowels in bathrooms,
dust office. Through the course of a week, month, year, you rotate
through all the household tasks that should ideally happen on a weekly,
monthly, yearly basis.

The halfsized version of the weekly planner is exactly the
same except it prints out with two weekly pages on each sheet of 8 1/2"
x 11" paper. You can cut these apart and put them into a Franklin
Covey-style planner, or you can put them in your own notebook. The
full-sized weekly planner is 55 pages total: cover, 53 weekly chore
pages, and a reproducible 2-week menu planning page. The half-sized
version prints out in 28 pages.

You can order each of these with or without the Bible schedule.

The daily planner comes in the same sizes, but instead of a
week (or two weeks) per printed page, it’s a day (or two days) per
printed page. In addition to the daily chore checklists, each day has a
space for menu-planning and a section for recording appointments.

There are sample pages at the website. Each version costs an
affordable $8 to download. I have printed mine out, hole-punched it,
and put it in one of my lovely Small Meadow Press "Pigeonhole" binders.
It’s so pretty I just like to see it sitting on the end table! But to
keep on track with the chores, what I’m going to try is hanging each
week’s page on the refrigerator. There are so many little household
tasks that never seem to occur to me, and I like the idea of the mental
nudge every time I go to the fridge in search of chocolate. Gosh, if I
do one chore every time I sneak a chocolate chip, how clean and shiny
will my house be!

(I’ll let you know how it goes.)

Here’s the fun part: the nice folks at Motivated Moms have offered
one of their planners for a giveaway here. If you’d like to enter,
leave a comment on this post. No need to decide now which version you
want—the winner will have her pick after the drawing. Let’s see, today
is Tuesday…why don’t I do the drawing on Friday, January 4th, at noon
Pacific time. That will give the winner the weekend to catch up on this
week’s chores.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go change my handtowels and declutter my purse.

35 thoughts on “Planner Review: Motivated Moms Chore Planner”

  1. A fresh chore plan for a new year – sounds motivational to me! Now, when I don’t win, I can blame the state of my house on that. 😉

  4. This sounds so…hopeful! Perhaps it really would get me on track for the New Year. Please add my entry.

  7. I am a calendar junkie…but I don’t have a CHORE calendar…please enter me in the drawing!!

  8. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this planner. I’ve not ordered mine for this year. I’ll wait until after your drawing before I do. Thanks, Lissa!!!

  10. Hmmm, maybe a PLANNER is what I’ve been needing to make me magically organized and motivated! Worth a shot, anyways!

  11. Oh, I’d love a chance to win one of these! And if I don’t win, I may have to buy one. I definitely need more help in the chore-accomplishment department…

  16. I could use this. Working, traveling husband and best help away at college are taking their tolls on this homeschool family’s home-school! Happy New Year, Lissa & clan

  19. Oh, I need so much help in this area! I could really use a planner to keep me organized — my brain is just too scattered!

  31. I’d love to be entered for this–Thanks! and thanks for all you write–you are very encouraging even when you just write about your daily life.
    Elizabeth

  33. I’m really scatterbrained these days. If I’m lucky enough to win, I’ll put it to good use. Thanks! (hope it’s not 2 late 2 enter)

  35. I’d love to be entered! I could really use it to organize my life! Thank you!

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