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Printable Household Planner Keeps Your Home Running Smoothly [Printables]

With busy lives, it’s easy to let chores around the house slip through the cracks. Corral the details into this customized planner to help you track everything from daily chores to when you need to change the furnace filter.

Organization guru Donna Young created dozens of planner template pages in two sizes that let you create a household planner system that works for you. All the templates are free to download as PDF files that can be opened with any standard PDF reader.

Planner categories are broken down by calendar style and use. For instance, you might want to grab a two-page block calendar to keep track of monthly chores, and then skip over to the Kitchen category to snag a shopping list or weekly menu. Also be sure to check out the yearly housework reminder sheet, project planning pages, and the chore chart that’s good for adults or kids (why let them off the hook?).

Once you decide what size you want your planner to be—full- or half-size— just print them out and pop them in a binder. You can use the forms just as they are, or convert them to DOC format for further editing. Most of the templates are blank so you'll need to fill in the blanks yourself. If you need some ideas for what needs to get done around the house on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, we’ve got you covered.






HowPack Prints Packing Plans for Nearly Any Object [Printables]

Whether you need to package a single fragile ornament or fold an elaborate gift box, HowPack has an enormous number of printable paper folding templates for every kind of object and configuration you can imagine.

There are templates for boxes, tubes, dispensers, papercraft novelties like trucks and planes, geometric shapes, and even historical buildings. Each template is available as a JPEG image. Although JPEGs don’t scale quite like a PNG file, since you’ll only be using it as a template to mark your folds and cuts, a few jagged artifacts on a large printout shouldn’t cause a problem.

The site lacks a search function but the way it is laid out makes it easy to quickly move through all the thumbnails of the templates. If you have an interesting papercraft site to share, let’s hear about it in the comments.





RetailMeNot Adds Printable Coupons for Offline Savings [Saving Money]

Popular online coupon search web site RetailMeNot has added a new printable coupon feature that indexes over 90,000 printable coupons for saving cash when you’re not shopping online.

The new printable coupons are searchable by location, and results display on a Google Map so you can quickly check out deals nearby. It’s got a little ways to go before it’s the first place we’d go to find a deal locally, but I’m already impressed with the decent results I’m finding around Lifehacker HQ in Los Angeles. For a similar alternative, check out previously mentioned RedPlum.





Add Custom Printed Pages to Your Moleskine [Webapps]

Lifehacker readers love a good Moleskine, and now the makers of the popular durable notebook have a new online tool that can print custom pages to fit perfectly into your Moleskine.

The MSK wizard (as it’s called) can create custom pages with any image or text you want, build an attractive calendar, or make your address book Moleskine-friendly. MSK produces a PDF for whichever page type you're creating that—in theory—you can easily print out onto your Moleskine pages (or maybe onto a page you'd cut out and past into your Moleskine). The webapp is new, and I ran into a few bugs when trying to import events, but overall it's a cool service for the serious Moleskine junkie. It's too bad Moleskine doesn't offer an option to print the pages and incorporate them directly into the book for you when you buy it, but we can dream, can't we?





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