A card from Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
Home Goods & Supplies
Home suit Daily Grind
This card requires CPE of everything from laundry detergent, batteries, and lightbulbs, to toothpaste, coffee filters, and trash bags! Expect to be astounded by how your parents’ generation pulled this off without Amazon.
Holding this card means owning all three
C
Conception
Your family needs home goods & supplies
P
Planning
- Creating an inventory/making a master list (detergent, cleaning supplies, paper products, batteries, office supplies, bathroom supplies/toiletries/ Ziplock bags, Tupperware, lunch boxes)
- Checking supplies for what is low
E
Execution
- Shopping
- Loading and unloading goods/supplies
- Placing items in appropriate area in consultation with “Organizing” cardholder
Suggested Minimum Standard of Care
Is there regular replenishment of home goods / are the goods & supplies there when you need them? Are they in the appropriate place when you need them? (i.e the toilet paper back on the holder)
A starting point. You and your partner agree the real standard together, and the holder meets it without reminders.
Holding it well
- It’s a Daily Grind: relentless and time-bound. Make sure each of you holds a fair share of these, ideally one from each suit.
- The holder owns all of it: noticing, planning and doing. No “just tell me what to do.”
- Agree the Minimum Standard of Care together, then let the holder meet it their way.
- Not working? Bring it to the weekly check-in and re-deal it. Don’t take it back mid-week.
Put this card on your table
Deal it, agree its standard, and see who holds what. Free.