Need some ideas and inspiration for your homemaking binder? Here are 11 homemaking binder ideas along with some free printables.

Creating a homemaking binder has been life changing for me. As a homemaker, there are a million of things that my mind has to keep track of and my homemaking binder has become a second brain that holds all these things in a decently orderly way. It gives my mind a designated space to dump all these things and thoughts into without having to worry that I will forget where I put them.

I will admit that there is a bit of a struggle when you are trying to create a homemaking binder to figure out how to organize all the things and thoughts that you need or want to keep track of.

If you are struggling to figure out how to group all those things or just want some inspiration for more categories to include in your homemaking binder, peruse these 11 homemaking binder ideas I have listed here. These are all the categories I use as well as categories that I saw listed in other homemaker’s blogs.

And don’t forget to check out the free homemaking binder printables!

Housekeeping

Daily Routine
Weekly Routine
Planner Pages
Spring Cleaning Checklist
Fall Cleaning Checklist

Meals

Weekly Meal Plan
Monthly Meal Plan
Favorite Recipes
Recipes to Try
Pantry Inventory
Freezer Inventory

Digital Homemaking Binder

If you are wanting to get away from extra paper clutter because it’s one more thing you have to manage, a digital homemaking binder might be for you. I looked, but I couldn’t find a free template for you, but I believe there are ones for sale on Etsy.

You could always create your own on canva, too. I did find an interesting idea from another blog using the free app called Evernote. Basically you create digital folders that hold pictures or documents that you want to have a copy of, but just not a physical copy of. If you are interested in this option, click the link and explore the tutorial of how this blogger created her own digital homemaking binder using Evernote.

Hobbies

I love to sew so I use this section to keep track of Sewing projects or other handmade projects and any improvements for the next time I am in the mood to recreate them.

Books to Read

Miscellaneous

You know all those random things you want to keep track of like what brand and shade of makeup you like or the method you used to cut your little boy’s hair. Maybe it’s the only brand of water filters that work for you but you keep forgetting what it is when it comes time to replace them. This is the place for all those random but good to know things.

Even if you never reference these things again, just having an organized place to write them down relieves a lot of stress off your mind. I’m one of those people that if I don’t write at least some of these things down, it’s hard to shut my brain down at night. Although it doesn’t hold much, this category is definitely a must for me.

Budget

Decoration Ideas

Decorating is one of the homemaking skills that I knew nothing about when I got married. I have a long way to go in learning to decorate, and yet I have come so far in my interior decorating journey.

As I have been slowly learning how to decorate a home, it has been super helpful to have somewhere to write down all the random ideas I have for decorating a space in our home or different decor styles that I find attractive and beautiful. My homemaking binder gives me a place to write down all my crazy notions, to get them out of my head so that I can then muse over them for a while without stressing over them and to see what ideas actually stick around in my head and what I actually end up liking before I actually go out and spend money.

Goals and Dreams

Do you have some yearly homemaking goals or dreams and ideas of where you want to be and what you want your home to be like? What better designated place is there to keep track of all these things than a homemaking binder?!

I’m still working on adding this section to my own homemaking binder, but it would be so helpful because I’m such a dreamer.

I love to think about impossible things and ambitiously aspire to make them happen. It gets a little out of hand and I’m learning to slow down this part of me and not be so unhealthily ambitious but dreaming is so good for homemakers! Life can be mundane or get hard to manage and dreaming of what life could be like (not in a discontent way, but as a wonderful distraction from things we really do want to complain about) is a wonderful way to romanticize your life and think of what you can do about situations or homemaking things that are stressing you out.

Holiday Planning

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and any other holiday that you celebrate or host anything for might benefit from having a place to keep track of what you did last year so that you don’t have to remember.

Gift Ideas

Gift giving is definitely not my love language. I’m terrible at it, but I’m learning to plan way ahead instead of waiting till December to think about Christmas gifts or the week past birthdays to think of what I should get for whoever it is. Birthdays, Christmas, and many other moments in life require a little planning to get the perfect gift for the situation. Why not have a little section where you can proactively get ahead with a little planning and save yourself some stress especially around the holidays?!

Free Printables

Here are some fun and free printables I have created specifically for homemaking binders. You will find pages for routines, meal planning, holiday specific stuff like gift ideas and what not all included below.

Final Thoughts!

Homemaking binders are unique to every homemaker. Just like specific homemaking routines don’t work for every homemaker.

But I hope this post gave you some ideas and inspired you even more to create a homemaking binder or a second brain to hold all the things you don’t need to constantly be thinking about. I hope you were encouraged that life can be a little more organized and less chaotic.

If you were encouraged or inspired in any way, please PIN IT! So that other homemakers can be encouraged and inspired, too!