Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be showing you my at-home
command center, which I have just set up. This school year I vow to be more organized,
so I thought I would share this with you because it was really simple to do, and hopefully
it'll provide you with some inspiration as well. So I hope you like this. If you do,
give it a big thumbs up. And if you're new to my channel, I would love for you to subscribe
and stick around for more content like this. And let's get into it.
There are so many different things that you can put onto a command center. So what I did
to start out was to go onto Pinterest and pin a few boys that I liked the look of and
that I thought had really good organizational systems. So if you want to check out my Pinterest,
I'll link that down below and you can. But I basically got most of the frames from Ikea.
They were super cheap. And then I've just hung them using a Velcro system. You can get
it online. I just really didn't want to hammer any nails or anything like that into our brand
new kitchen, and they are holding up really well.
So this is the space that I chose to put my command center on. Mine is nice and small.
You can put it anywhere that you're going to see it very often. Some people put it in
their utility room, by their desk, or in their kitchen like this. So I've just used this
space. And I'll just start at the top. The top thing here, I'm just so in love with.
This is a magnetic notice board that I found online. They do it in loads of different prints,
but I really wanted to stick with the rainbow theme because I have a rainbow calendar. So
I'm going to use this for invitations to kids' parties, reminders from the school or anything,
a few photos, stuff like that, they can go here.
Then the calendar was actually super simple to make. It's just a DIY, but I have also
seen them on Etsy. This is just a frame, and then I've done it using paint chips. So it
looks really cool. It has a color gradient, and it is rainbow, and I just really love
it. The only thing is the squares are quite small. But, as you guys know, I also use a
planner, so this calendar here is really for the benefit of my family to see what's what,
what we've got on. I've actually just taken the things out for the purpose of this video
because you don't need to see everything that I'm up to, but any parties, any events, anything
we've got coming up, birthdays, etc, will go on here.
And then I've got this little pot. I got this from Ikea, and I've just Velcroed it on there,
and this is where I keep the pens. I have a few white marker pens, but Sharpies actually
work well on this, and I can just wipe it off really easily.
Then moving down here, I have a place for my meal planning. In my old kitchen. I had
a big meal planning chalkboard, but I feel like I've been really lacking a place to put
my meal planning in sight for everyone to see. So if Matt wants to know what's for dinner,
or the kids want to know what's for dinner, they can just check this board now. So I've
got Monday to Sunday, and I pretty much normally meal plan five to six days a week, and then
let one be a takeaway, or we might have something on, we're going out. And then we've also got
this space here for groceries. So if there's anything I need to get and I want to just
put it on there, I can then take a photo on my phone and take that to the supermarket
with me, or when I do my online shop. And moving down here, I've got the two older
boys' chore charts. These are available as a printable on my website. So is the mail
planning one. And I'm going to show you the school routine in a second. But I've talked
in depth about their chores. There's a whole video on it, so I'll link it in the description
and here as well. But they basically have tasks that they need to complete in the morning,
and then in the evening as well. They can choose a reward each week. And if they complete
it over the course of the week, they get that reward. So these have been working so well
for us, it's actually been life changing. But I used to have them in plastic wallets
just laying around the house. So I thought it'll be really nice to have a place for them
that the boys can just come to, and tick off every morning what they've actually done.
So there's Caleb's, there's Fraser's. And then I also have this school routine printable.
This is for their clubs so we know what they've got coming up, what they've got on, things
we need to pack, etc. If you didn't want to have a whole chore chart, you could just put
the task they need to complete before and after school. This one here is kind of for
me, but also for the kids. So things like remembering their snack, water bottle, to
put sun cream on them, is their bag packed? Reading for 10 to 15 minutes, homework, laying
their clothes out every night, and all the stuff that they need for the clubs the next
day. So this is just a great place where I can reference it, Matt can reference it. If
anyone else had the kids, they could look at it as well.
I also got these three little frames, which I was thinking about putting here with the
school lunch menu on it. The boys ask me all the time what the school dinner is, so I thought
it'd be really handy to have it here, and then they could reference it and I wouldn't
have to be trying to find it on my phone all the time.
Yeah, so that is my super simple command system. I'm so excited to start using it in a couple
of weeks when they're back at school. I know I'm such a geek, but this makes me so happy
and feeling so organized. Let me know in the comments if you would add anything to it or
if you have a command center at home as well. There are so many different ideas out there.
A lot of the ones I saw had in-trays for paperwork on them, but for me, so much of what I do,
or bills, or anything from the school, is actually paperless now. It's all on email.
And I felt like if I had a place to put paperwork, I would put things in there and not deal with
it. For me, it's much better to get something out the kid's bag, deal with it immediately,
and then chuck it, and it's done. So I don't have one of those trays, but that might also
be something that you could put onto yours [inaudible 00:00:05:59].
Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.