HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
It ain't the fun part, but good chore assignments lead to true Fine Tuned Bliss.We all want to do our part. More importantly, we all want to have our time when doing our part means doing NOTHING because we trust that other folks have it covered.
So, I let my inner spreadsheet goddess out and took a spin through the chore chart. My detail-side was in full force, and I hope no one is irked by any of my suggestions. My theory is that a bit of preparation leads to easy-pleasy implementation. From my analysis, I think that some changes need to happen, so please take 8 minutes to read and digest the following notes.
Grab your a snack cake, your PBC, put your feet up, and read on:
- I removed multiple people from one line for ease of counting and seeing what was full & what wasn't. So, if you were sharing a line with someone else, you now have your own line. Rejoice in your new-found independence! (Exception: John & Stash still share recycling/store run on one day b/c Stash can't do it himself)
- I cleaned up the colors for clarity.
- Slots that don't need to be filled in are now dark grey (that was for my own sanity. I kept thinking the teal slots needed to be filled).
- I deleted some extra, unnecessary lines.
- We've got some empty slots, so I put the word EEEEK? into slots so it's obvious that we've got a slot that needs some help. We still have quite a few EEEEKs. Including auctioneer -- Whaaaa??
- I'm not sure what "Extra Mid Day Reset" is. Do we really need it? We already have lunch setup and cleanup slots listed. Can those folks move into EEEEK slots? If there is a true need, let's keep it. But if not, we have needs elsewhere..
- ...Like LUNCH setups (oddly, we have people to clean up, but not set up basic lunch).
- ...and speaking of lunch setups, any reason we need 5 folks for Saturday? Is there a magical feast that needs preparation? If not, can we dump those slots?
- Now that brunch is Monday morning, do we need lunch setup & cleanup on Monday? If not, Ea & Anna can transition from lunch cleanup to something else.
- Dinner cleanups. We're heavy on some dinner cleanups and short in other places. 5 cleanup people for Friday and Saturday nights seems heavy. Can we back down to 4 and fill in some of the EEEEK? slots?
Three sleeps until stargazing!!
14 comments:
MIM!!! You organizational goddess!! Thanks for cleaning things up. I say YES to keeping the reset of the kitchen. With the constant treat-making that goes on with this crowd (god bless us, every one) it doesn't take long for the kitchen to become messy again between lunch clean up and dinner. That means that the dinner crowd comes in and has to spend the first chunk of time cleaning rather than food prepping. Also, it's key to start off with an empty dishwasher. One person can do it.
Checking out the list!
This is great, Mim- thank you!
I feel pretty strongly that we could use 2 committed people on house walker and perhaps even camp walker- picking up all of the glasses, forgotten dishes, little messes that constantly acumulate everywhere etc... this is an area that could use more participation, so we can all relax a bit more- can you add two lines if no one objects and some "eeks" as needed?
Thanks Mim! I will look at the new improved version and see how I can help relieve the EEEEK factor.
Gotcha:
Additional lines added for house walkers, with accompanying EEEKs.
Mid Day reset: kept
Extra lunch folks on Sat: ditched
Any thoughts about the heavy clean up crews on Friday and Saturday nights?
Anna, I'd missed your comment about adding brunch cleanup. I added two slots and removed the lunch cleanup slots (since there is no lunch on brunch days). You and Ea were in those slots, so I shifted you to brunch cleanup. If that's a bad thing for you or Ea, pls take yourself out of that slot.
I think 3-4 is ideal for the big meals. You can't fit more than 2 people in the kitchen, the other(s) are for fetch & carry & wrapping up leftovers ( and then, if they are awesome, relieving the pot washer/dryer). Just MHO, though! I moved Stasha from the Fri night clean up (which really doesn't need more than 2-3 people) & put him on an EEK
Its looking to me like if we want to fill the EEEK slots, we have to commit to 5 chores each.
IS that what we and the more testacular partners are willing to do to keep the peace and cleanliness of PH?
If we aren't then we might want to re-prioritize where the energy is and shift positions around accordingly or accept that some labor will be heavier (ie a meal captain if there is no mid day reset and tidying up needs to happen before the meal).
Just checking in on what we want to do.
My vote is to let it be. I moved Anna (the 5th person to sign up for Saturday clean up) to Sunday dinner clean up, and added Jaylin to that chore as well (her second chore). We are still missing an auctioneer, but I'm certain we can muscle one of our fine gentlemen (or maybe a combination) to step into the role with a little cajoling. That really only leaves us light on basic lunch set up (we have one person both Sat & Sun) and Monday night clean up (3 people rather than 4).
I venture to say that we can manage there, especially if you consider that people can get their own lunch, really, if they are hungry, and Monday night dinner will likely not be a nightmarish clean up.
What do the rest of ye think?
I also updated our chore expectation chart and printed it out for posting (I did it at work during lunch time, so it's not on the drive here, but the paper version may be edited & will update for next time)
Will someone take on the printing of duties (who is doing what) & the personal lists of chores for people's doors? (My printer at home is...somewhere...)
I will type the list for doors
Good news: Rob will be our auctioneer :)!! Bad news: Rob will be leaving Monday....(totally sucks) we could only get Niko-care for 3 nights-- the old pup is pretty involved since his last bout of vertigo. I had to take Rob off store run for Monday- I put in an "eeek".
Its a bummer, but Up until a few days ago we actually thought that we were going to have to come up in shifts ie: a few days me and Q then me going home and a few days Rob and Q so one of us could be at home...so this is actually much better that we'll get to be together for the weekend. The plan is for Quinn and I to stay through Wednesday, depending upon how he is doing..
Yay about auctioneer, Boo Rob having to leave!! I'm sorry about Niko.
John has to leave early too. Work has been a nightmare for him-- worked 22 hours last weekend, no relief in sight. :-(
Poor John! Get that boy a beer and his feet up STAT! xoxo
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