Nagging works wonders

When we let go of our full-time housekeeper at the beginning of the year, we had no real plan in place about how to manage the chores. So for about a month after that, we experienced a level of chaos that made it necessary to call a family meeting and chart a way forward.

As we suggested various ways to keep the house clean and tidy, one idea that was agreed to by all was that each person should wash their own dishes after use. This would go a long way in reducing the pile of dirty dishes that soon became intimidating to the point where they would have to be tackled by two people just to make the task manageable.