Inventory Sheets

As a beginning homemaker, I haven’t quite reached that level where I’m able to be organized and confident in my homemaking skills. Frequently when I go to the store, my husband will ask me what we have at home, and I draw a complete blank. Or, I will say, “Don’t worry about picking up mushrooms, we have plenty at home.” Only to discover when we I start to make the dish that I have absolutely no mushrooms. Fantastic, now I have to either revamp the meal plan, risk upsetting my husband who was counting on that favorite meal or rush out to the store, not saving any money, spending more on gas and the time until dinner is ready and… See, it’s not pretty.

For a while I tried some pretty basic tactics – I’d convince myself to make a checkmark on a sheet of paper when I ran out of something. But my list was never complete. I’d have scribbles, I’d forget to make checkmarks, the list would end up under the fridge, you know the deal. At one point I also used a neat list of my necessities that I put in a clear plastic cover so that I could use a dry erase marker to easily keep in mind what I needed. I continually found myself using permanent markers.

I knew that I needed a new tactic, but I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted that anyone else had made before, so one day I bravely decided that I wanted to make one for myself. I began with a simple spreadsheet, I think I also took ideas from a spreadsheet made by another homemaker.

After a while of tweaking, I came up with a functional worksheet and immediately attached it to my freezer:

Freezer Inventory in Natural Habitat

My Freezer Inventory

Now, after some usage I have found a few more tweaks that need to be done. Check back next week for this very Freezer Inventory, complete with tweaks and edits, for your very own usage via free download.