Chores

When I was a kid, every Saturday was chore day.  My sister and I would wake up to find a long list of chores for us to do waiting on the kitchen table.  We knew those chores needed to be done by the time mom came home from work, or there would be hell to pay.  Sadly, I have not trained my kids to do chores like I had to.  I have tried several different techniques to get the kids involved in the housekeeping, with minimal luck. 

I don’t want to jinx myself, but I think I might have come up with something ( more accurately, someone on Pinterest came up with something). 

Isn’t it fabulous?  I started with an old frame without glass.  I cut a piece of plywood to fit, then sanded and painted it white.  I cut out the  stencil of the quote on my Cricut, then painted it on in brown.  (Don’t look too closely, the edges of the stencil leaked a bit).  I added the kids names in vinyl and screwed in the hooks. 

I then thought of every single chore the kids could do around the house, printed and laminated them, and punched holes in each one.  Each day, either K or I go through and pick 3 or so chores for each of them to do.  The rules are they have to be done by the end of the day, or the next day they lose privileges (usually technology) and have to do those chores plus whatever was assigned to them that day.  Once they do their chore, they move the ticket to the bottom hook under their name.  The hook labeled “extra” has chores they can choose if they want to earn some extra $$.  

The house has never looked better.