Comments on: LifeHack: Home Contracts

By: WebCudgel

WebCudgel — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:48:20 +0000

Hehe… not often you get a chance to tell your wife to “submit”. :) I love you, honey… *whack*… ow.

By: JK

JK — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:41:27 +0000

I use various organizers (software, cell phones, sticky notes, etc) to help track home and recreational projects. The idea of home work orders/ contracts has motivated me to try to find a system I can install on my website so that my wife and I can submit work orders for things to get done. Don’t worry, she’ll have a ticket queue as well. :)

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:11:03 +0000

My father, a behavioral psychologist, tried this on the whole family back in the seventies when I was a kid. We would negotiate contracts at the beginning of every month for chores and allowances. This was supposed to teach us about money, work, incentives. All it taught me was that all of my basic needs were being provided for, I could never out-negotiate a college professor, my older brother got the best jobs, so I just slacked off and took up writing adventure novels in my room…

By: WebCudgel

WebCudgel — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:48:53 +0000

It’s not wrong if it works and both parties are happy. Notice, I said, BOTH PARTIES. If you’re not into having this method used, it won’t work because you won’t let it work.

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:23:09 +0000

No way. Even if was married to Penelope Cruz. No freakin’ way. Work time is for work, home time is for anything but work. Start giving me “work orders” at home and I’ll stop coming home. Sorry baby, working late tonight at the coffeeshop! Now, I like to do a weekend project, landscape, or fix stuff on the weekends, but this is just taking things a bit too far. It’s just….wrong.

By: Amethyst

Amethyst — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:56:23 +0000

You know, this is a cool idea. I write stories in my spare time, and Ibet it could be used for that, too. Writing could be one color. Editing could be another color. A brainstorming session could be another color. Freewriting could be another color, with a topic idea on the card. Etc.