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Family Command Centre & Home Paper Flow

Family Command Centre Planner

Command centres fail in two ways: too small for the paper that actually arrives, or designed for a wall you do not have. This planner sizes the in-trays from your weekly paper volume, gives every child a slot, counts hooks per person, and checks the fixed zones against your wall width before you drill anything.

Use the Family Command Centre Planner

Built-in module

Paper Storage Needs Calculator — the in-tray count above is the module: a week of your paper volume per tray.

How it works

One in-tray holds roughly a week of 15 papers before it turns into a pile, so trays are papers-per-week divided by 15. Fixed wall zones are a 38 cm calendar and a 32 cm tray stack; the planner reports what is left for slots and hooks — or warns you it does not fit.

How to use it

  1. Count a normal week's paper honestly: school, post, forms, receipts that come home.
  2. Measure the wall or door the centre will live on.
  3. Enter adults and children separately — slots are per child, hooks are per person.
  4. Print the weekly family planner from your layout and run the touch-it-once rule: act, file, or recycle.

Frequently asked questions

Where should a command centre go?

Where paper enters the home — usually by the main door or in the kitchen. A beautiful centre in a spare room processes nothing, because paper never travels that far.

How does this connect to filing?

The command centre is the inbox, not the archive. Anything that stays goes to the Home File Category system; the centre only holds this week's active paper. Mixing the two is how command centres drown.

What if my wall is too small?

The planner flags it and the usual fix is splitting zones: calendar on the fridge side, trays and hooks by the door. Two small stations that fit beat one perfect station that does not.

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