Suburban Reviews

Anyone who knows me can tell you I was obviously absent the day organizational skills were being passed out. I hate making lists, because I know darn well I will probably just end up losing them, if I remember I made them in the first place. It’s a bad place to be my friends. Needless to say I was excited when the Parent Bloggers Network teamed up with Day Runner to try out their new Family Matters system. Maybe this will be the answer to my terribly unorganized dreams?

The basic premise here is color-coding. Each family member is assigned a color, and each piece in the system works with that. The undated erasable wall calendar is double sided, with one side having color coded boxes down the side of a traditional view, or for the busier family, the colored boxes rule, with the dates going down the side. Sound complicated? I promise it isn’t.

For those used to a regular wall calendar, there is a normal dated one for 2008 and beyond. Always on the go? Check out the color-coded planner. Also included in the system are storage boxes for those loose papers in each family member’s color, durable activity folders, and a really neat door hanger set(you guessed it, color coded as well!) for jotting down reminders.

There are only a few downsides that I can see with these products, and they are somewhat minor. The door hangers did not fit right, and I realized anyways how foolish it would be to hang anything with a marker on it that low in a house with two preschoolers. My plan is to hang these a little higher on a nail or tack, out of reach of the little ones. Also, the size is perfect for my family of five, but what about those with larger families? The more kids you have, the more organized you need to be, so I would highly recommend Day Runner consider some kind of expansion packs for this system.

Beyond that, I have to say I am very much in love with these products, and will be buying the wall info center when it becomes available. Hopefully Day Runner will help me make 2008 a little more organized!

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