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Getting organised
Checklists, chore charts, packing lists and labels: sheets for the recurring jobs that take up far more of your head than they deserve.
10 topics · 32 printable sheets
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2 sheetsHospital bag checklists
Two free printable UK hospital bag checklists, one for a vaginal birth and one for a caesarean. Three pages each, covering you, your baby, your birth partner and going home.
1 sheetBirth plan template
A free printable UK birth plan template. Six A4 pages, with a one page summary at the front for your maternity notes and fuller sections behind it, including what you would like if labour is induced or you need a caesarean.
5 sheetsBack to school checklists
Free printable back to school checklists, one for each stage from starting Reception to the first week of secondary. Uniform, equipment, the parent admin, the routine reset and the conversations worth having first.
1 sheetNursery checklist and room planner
A free printable nursery checklist covering everything for a safe, cosy and usable room, a safer sleep check based on Lullaby Trust guidance, and a full page grid for planning where the furniture actually goes.
1 sheetMaternity leave and pay checklist
A free printable checklist for UK maternity leave and pay. What to tell work and when, the deadlines that hang off your qualifying week, and a page for the dates and figures so you can check your payslips against something.
2 sheetsBabysitter and emergency information sheets
Two free printable sheets for the times somebody else is looking after your child: a babysitter pack for the evening, and an emergency contacts and medical information sheet to keep on hand.
1 sheetMedication handover record
A free printable one day medication record for handing your child's medicine to somebody else: a grandparent, a childminder, a sitter or a holiday club. One child, one day, one sheet.
5 sheetsMeal planners and shopping lists
Free printable meal planners, a shopping list built to match them and a meal ideas bank so you stop staring at the fridge on a Sunday. Take one sheet or the whole four page pack.
7 sheetsChristmas planning sheets
Seven free printable Christmas planners. A budget, a present tracker, a food plan, two advent calendars, a countdown chart and a letter to Father Christmas, all sized for A4.
7 sheetsChore charts and pocket money sheets
Seven free printable jobs charts and a pocket money tracker. Three age bands in two versions, one with pocket money attached and one without, so you can pick the approach that suits your house.
Write it down once and stop thinking about it
Most household jobs are the same jobs every single week. The reason they feel so heavy is that you’re rebuilding each one from memory every time, usually while somebody asks you where their shoe is.
A printed list ends that. The swimming bag list, the school bag list, the things that have to happen before anyone leaves the house. Written once, stuck up, never held in your head again.
The information that lives in one head
Usually yours. Where the stopcock is. Which medicine, what dose, and when. The postcode, in a form somebody could read aloud to a 999 operator. The number for the out of hours vet, if the dog is going to be somebody else’s problem too.
None of that is any use inside your own head on the one evening you aren’t there, which is precisely the evening it will be needed. Written down once, properly, it then works for every babysitter, grandparent and last minute change of plan after that.
Who else needs a copy
One sheet on the fridge covers the evening you go out. It doesn’t cover the grandparent who collects on a Wednesday, the after school club with its own folder, or the school office still holding a mobile number you stopped using two years ago.
Print two or three. One stays at home, one travels in whichever bag goes to whoever has your child most often, and one goes to the person you would ring second if nobody could reach you. Then put a reminder in your phone for six months from now to check the numbers still work, because a sheet with a dead mobile on it is worse than no sheet at all.
Write the standing bits once
The parts that never change deserve twenty minutes, properly, once. The wifi, the back door, the bin day, the vet, the boiler.
After that you’re only ever updating the evening in front of you, which takes ninety seconds.
Give the jobs away
Children can do considerably more than they’re usually asked to, and most quite enjoy being trusted with it. A chore chart is mostly a device for making that visible so nobody has to nag and nobody can claim they didn’t know. The activity trackers work for this as well as for clubs, since a week of jobs and a week of swimming lessons look identical on paper.
Whether it survives contact with a teenager is something I’ll report back on.