Inside: A roundup of my favorite planners and journals for homemakers - perfect for staying organized in the New Year! We're getting ready to turn the calendar, and if you're like me, I always look forward to starting a new planner for the year. I utilize digital apps for some of my time management, but I can't seem to eliminate paper. (I need to put a post together on how I manage my digital life, and it's on the to-write list for the blog sometime in the future 😉) But, truly, nothing ... continue reading...
Helpful Tools for Your Homemaking & Walk with the Lord
Part of my hope here at Thankful Homemaker is to not only provide you with free resoruces through the blog and podcast to encourage you in your homemaking but to provide you with other helpful affordable resources. I love to use a sermon notebook, daily time with the Lord planner and menu planner. Sometimes these can be fairly expensive but I've created some affordable resources that I hope will help you in these areas of your homemaking. Weekly Meal Planning System: The Weekly Meal ... continue reading...
EP 97: How a Timer Saves Me Time & Keeps Me Focused
Do you ever find yourself flitting from task to task and at the end of the day realizing you didn't finish any of them? Do you have trouble staying focused and on task? A tool that has helped me immensely over the years to stay on tasks, whether it's household chores, reading, social media, blog work, paying bills, and a host of other items, is just a simple household timer. It is a simple tool we all have either on our phones, wrists, or in the back of a drawer somewhere, and it will keep ... continue reading...
Three Simple {Free} Tools To Keep You Organized in Your Homemaking
Inside: These are the three tools that I've used for many years to help keep my days as a homemaker organized and running a bit more smoothly. These are the three tools that I’ve used for many years to help keep my days as a homemaker organized and running a bit more smoothly. It's nothing earth-shaking here, I'm sharing, but just the simplicity of a calendar, to-do list, and weekly menu plan. I always think these are probably tools our grandmothers used back in the day. Every ... continue reading...
My Top 50 Cleaning Shortcuts
We all love to save time and especially when we're cleaning. As we learn how to keep a home over the years, we develop shortcuts or time-savers in our cleaning. One way we do this is through our daily routines, but how many of us also learned that as new housewives we spent more time cleaning things that didn't need to be cleaned just because we thought we had to. We don't have to clean the whole mirror each time but just wipe it where it's needed. We don't need to mop the ... continue reading...