About Your Time
Joan Goldner, Publisher
www.busybodybook.com
PO Box 582
South Orange, NJ 07079
973-761-6783
You’ll never be unorganized again after you begin using the BusyBodyBook. No, I’m not talking about a place to keep up with all the latest gossip; I’m talking about a beautiful, functional, spiral bound personal and family grid organizer that you’ll use every day for the rest of your life! Available by the academic calendar year of August to September, or the calendar year January through December, the colorful covers alone will motivate you to action—if you ever close it, that is! Mine stays open almost all the time. Inside is a highly functional five column grid where you can track the activities of up to five family members side by side!
This is not your ordinary organizer! The weekly grid columns can be used for planning the lessons of five different children, meal planning, personal routines, goals, home projects, school subjects, or whatever you need to keep track of! Inside the front and back are two large cover pockets, great for keeping track of coupons, little slips of paper, CDs, and more. It has a month-at-a-glance section, contacts pages, a place for next year’s appointments and occasions, and even a bookmark!
When the book is opened to the current week, the right side has the weekly grid while the left side, called "To Doodles," has a blank checklist section, for all those things you’re going to start accomplishing now that you are super organized, and also a blank space. Little reminders are included every week like, “Father’s Day is next week” or “Buy new batteries for smoke alarms this week.”
As if being this organized isn’t enough, also available from About Your Time is the BusyBodyBook Weekly Fridge Grid Pad! What a dream come true! No more making your own charts on the computer to print out weekly, this one has a magnet on the back and it stays right on the fridge where you can find it! The pad has a seven column grid that will let you coordinate even more children, or use it like I do, for meal planning! This pad is undated so you can fill in the dates as you go along, only using it when you need to, with no wasted pages! The easy to tear off sheets can be used by everyone in the family as well, for personal goals, work projects, routines, and activities. It is perfect for listing everyone’s name at the top and filling in each individual’s commitments for that week side by side, so it’s easy to see if there are scheduling conflicts.
The Weekly Fridge Grid Pad is the kind of “chart” I created all the time on the computer, but it was so convenient to have them already preprinted and hanging ready for me on the fridge. Now that I have it, I don’t think I could ever go back to making my own! The BusyBodyBook is great too; I plan to give one to each of my older children when the new school year begins. The only draw back to the BusyBodyBook is that I found five columns not to be enough for my own planning purposes. Some adults might also appreciate more serious looking solid colors to choose from for the cover, rather than the fun colorful covers offered.
Even those who struggle with organization can come across as a born organized person with these handy tools at their fingertips! To download sample pages of the weekly grid go to the website at www.busybodybook.com.
—Product review by: Rebecca Huff, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, LCC, June 2008.
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