I made my own Grocery & Pantry Lists

As we all know, I love Tip Junkie! I get weekly emails and I love it all, they always have free printable and such. The one thing I keep finding,  but have not found something that fits me is the Grocery List and the Pantry List. I never take inventory of what I have, so I end up buying more and that is a waste of money to me. So I decided to make up my own Lists.. As much as I like to write what we need, there is time I would rather circle it and move on. So, I thought of a cool idea with our normal staples in our house.  What I did, is just take a regular word document and used images from Google and put this together. There are things I can add & delete as time goes on, that is the nice thing about it. You can print these at the bottom of my blog, there are links attached.

I did 2 versions of the pantry inventory: 1 is the way I see it a lot, where you check off each box for every one can of item you have. Which is great, but didn't really work for me. It was taking up to much space. I also used pictures like my grocery list. Everyone LOVES pictures! So the second one that is horizontal, is the one you can fill in the number of cans/bottles in the circle. That seemed more logical to me. Let me explain something, if you notice on the soups it has 4 circles- well that is for the different soups I have int he pantry. The picture is cream of chicken, but I didn't want to have 6 different soup pictures, so I added circles and I can fill those in with the numbers of cans. Same with Pop Tarts, Hamburger helper, Jell-O and spices..
The spices, may have to change up- I have many spices to choose from!

Print Grocery List (Print Here)
Print Pantry Inventory List 1  (Print Here)
Print Pantry Inventory List 2 (Print Here)

Back 2 School Mom's Binder

I know what you are thinking: wait, school is almost out and give me some time to get over the summer plans. But, I actually wanted to do this for my girlfriend who has 4 girls & school starts for my daughter on August 15th this year..  I got this idea when scrolling through TipJunki.org.. and found this blog:

MOMMY'S HOMEWORK EDITION

Back 2 School Binder

I made this up for you after I saw it in a blog. I thought it could help you stay organized.

Inside are clear-view files labeled with each kiddo!  In these folders you can keep “important” things!

Things you will need to refer to later. Don’t clutter the book with the “work” or “art” your kids bring home, I am sure you store that some place else (wink, wink).  This is a binder so that you can stay on top of things, like stuff you need to sigh, stuff you need to remember, stuff you KNOW you’ll be looking at later!

“Important” things are:

~Classroom policies

~Schedules

~Grading matrix for upcoming projects

~Book report schedules

~Lunch account deposit slips

~Etc..

There is one file with ME on it and that is for you. This is for if you volunteer to help in a classroom or parent organization..