Wow!

You ladies sure have given this chore system a lot of thought!  Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience with me.

I’ve read and reread all the comments.  I researched all the links.  I’ve made lists and tallies and charts.  And I’ve come up with a system to try.  For now.  It’s a little of everything rolled into one.  We actually put it to the test yesterday.  A trial run I guess you’d say.  And lo and behold:

It worked!

My house is all shiny and sparkly and clean with minimal complaining!  I will enjoy it while it lasts.  And if my system is still working in a couple of weeks, I’ll be pleasantly surprise, but more importantly, I’ll post it here.

And we have a winner!

After numbering all your comments, and plugging those numbers into Random (dot) org, here’s what I got:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

11

Timestamp: 2009-02-05 15:38:11 UTC

Congratulations Jessica!

Mrs. Meyers will be paying you a visit very soon.

Thanks again for playing along and sharing a bit of homemaking genius with me.

Oh, and just so you know I wasn’t exaggerating about the sock problem we have going on in our house, take a look at what I found on my 7 year-old’s feet when he got home from school yesterday:

Poor Poor kid!

I guess I’m off to Target to stock up on some essentials.

Happy Thursday!