A card from Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
Returns & Store Credit
If it seems as if there’s always something you’ve bought that needs to be returned or exchanged—typically without the receipt and on the opposite side of town—then this cardholder will be quite busy. Store credit? Gift cards from your mother-in-law? Sure, they were for your kids, but who’s gonna know if you used one to buy those cute shoes on sale?
Holding this card means owning all three
Conception
Your family purchases things that might need to be returned
Planning
- Keeping track of items that need to be returned
- Figuring out store return policy
Execution
- Returning items (within store policy window)
- Donating or reselling items (if expired)
- Purchasing items with store credits (within store policy window)
- Managing gift cards and give to other cardholders such as “Clothes & Accessories (kids)” when appropriate for use
Suggested Minimum Standard of Care
Did you return the items during the allotted store policy window? Do you know where your credits are?
A starting point. You and your partner agree the real standard together, and the holder meets it without reminders.
Holding it well
- 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.