November 24, 2015
There’s a Printable for That! Organize Your Life With Printables
When I started making printables well over 10 years ago, they weren’t called printables, they were calendars and forms that I made to organize and simplify the systems I was using and wanted to implement in our home and my art classroom. Fast forward a few years and thanks to the internet, printables have become a popular tool used for tracking just about anything!
If you haven’t tried a printable, I urge you to try one out (my free printables page lists most of my freebies) so you can see what’s so great about them! I promise you’ll be singing the praises of the printable for years to come. I’ve listed some of my favorite printables below – just click on the link to go to the post or product. (I do have some pre-printed items too, but I love the printable!)
Why I love printables:
- Organize your thoughts quickly and easily – need to plan a project or a menu? Put those thoughts on paper and you’re that much closer to getting those ideas accomplished.
- I’m highly motivated by a checklist – quick cleaning step by step? Sign me up! If you work well with checklists too, look for printables that motivate you and keep you on task.
- Get creative with your assembly – put your printables together in a binder that makes sense for you!
- Instant download from the comfort of your home! Personally that’s what I think is so appealing about the printable – if you see something online you can just print that digital download out and start using it.
- Mess up a page? Print a new one! Have you stopped using a planner simply because you stopped keeping up with it and it was frustrating to see what you hadn’t completed or accomplished? No worries with the trusty printable 🙂
- Customization has endless possibilities for custom notebooks, planners, and binders – you can create what YOU want and need!
- Different sizes for just about any project (in my shop I have full and half size pages) but you can also trim printables to make notecards, gift cards, the sky’s the limit!
My favorite way to use printables?

- budgeting
- homekeeping binder – keep information in one easy to reference and use place by making a binder
- cleaning checklists, spring cleaning
- menu planning
- recipe binder
- lists – easily keep track of gifts, to dos, projects, travel plans, etc.
Here are a couple favorite posts that demonstrate how I use printables on a daily basis:
- Clean Mama Printables FAQ page (this page covers just about everything from printers to paper to Adobe Reader)
- How to Make a Cleaning Planner
- How to Make a Discbound Planner
- How to Combine your Planner and Homekeeping Binder
- How to Re-Size Printables
- How to Print 2+ PDFs On One Page
- How to Make a Recipe Binder
I love creating printables that make homekeeping a little bit easier and more enjoyable – check out my shop, Clean Mama Printables and my monthly subscription, Homekeeping Society!
Linda Strickland Says
Your ideas are prefect for my needs. I especially need the tablet where my husband can see what is going on with my day. We might say something and then forget to do it.
Thank you for the thought, time, and work you have put into your products.
When I first signed up with your website I think I had a PIN # for purchasing. I have forgotten the #. Please let me know if
I need one and send it to my Email. LStrickland822@aol.com. Thank you.
Becky Says
Post authorYou should be able to request a password reset Linda – if not, email me at clean.mama@yahoo.com