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Creating a Go-To Resource Book - Step 1

A few years ago I created a go-to resource book for our house and it has saved me so much time, effort and frustration. This week we are going to create one together. It will cost you very little, you can customize it to fit your needs, and it will only take a few minutes a day to get it going. Your family will thank you for it!

Notebook

What you will need:

Place the protector sheets and dividers in the binder. Use a label maker or permanent marker to put a title on the spine. Call it what you want - but make it something your family can relate to. We call ours the Ops book - meaning it is our operations manual.

Next, download and fill out, or print out the master phone list.

Put all the phone numbers you need on a regular basis in one of two columns - friends and family or important numbers. Don’t forget to add school office numbers, dentist, doctor, nail salon, hair dresser, etc.

Slide the phone list into the clear pocket on the cover of the binder and you are ready for tomorrow’s task!

7 Comments »

  Traveller wrote @ August 20th, 2007 at 2:18 am

Actually I can attest to the advantage of doing this; we already do something similar, though we haven’t called it by so serious a name “Ops Book”! :-)

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