Hi everyone, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 212, a guide to summer house rules. We're going to just jump in with an excellent starting point. What is a house rule?

Setting house rules is one of the 13 lazy genius principles in my book The Lazy Genius Way and it's basically a safeguard against everything falling apart.

If you think about common situations or regular times of day where everything feels like it's going up in flames, literally all of the sudden, and you're like, okay, I'm out.

Time to open my lobster rolls stand in Maine that's always like my go to house rules could come in handy. In the book I used the metaphor of dominoes lined up.

Some days feel like all the dominoes they just fell like you can't stop it, you can't fix it, it's just over.

A house rule is something that could keep that first domino from like teetering and knocking everything else over.

Also, I'm sorry, I had a cold for like two weeks, I'm so over it, so I apologize. But we have, we power on, right? We journey on.

Why do house rules particularly help in the summer? I mean, they help all the time, but in particular, they're so good in the summer.

I just, I think the reason is because summer, it's so different for all of us, it has like such a different personality even sometimes from beginning to end for each individual person.

Like the three months or, you know, however long of summer contain a lot of different energies and priorities.

You might not have as many routines as usual, or you might need more routines because like you're still needing to work while your kids are home from school.

Maybe you don't have kids at all, but a lot of your friends do. And so your rhythm of connecting with those friends is going to shift because they are in a different kind of summer mode than you are.

Maybe you just graduated college and you're trying to get a job or you're, you know, you're starting your job for the first time and you don't know how to be like have a summer in this way where you don't actually have a summer vacation.

Like all of us have different kinds of summers and all of us likely experience different modes and priorities again within the same summer, right?

House rules can really help give like a little steadiness to that if you want it.

So I'm going to share a few crowd sourced summer house rules with you right here, or right now to give you some ideas of how this might work.

Now you can use some of these directly you can let them inspire your own versions or you can notice that what matters to you is actually really different from what matters to the person who made this house rule.

Like specifics always help even if you don't literally use them right also all of these came from an Instagram feed post that I put up a couple of weeks ago.

So these are all your ideas thank you to everyone who shared and if you want to read through all I mean I think it's it was over 450 comments the last time I checked so you can look through those do your thing but also these are like so good if you don't have time to look through 450.

Y'all are so smart I am so I cannot tell you how obsessed I am with all of these rules.

Okay so I'm going to share these in like no particular order we're just going to rapid fire these babies are so first up is a Taito underscore T I really don't think I'm saying your name right tie.

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