You're listening to the Girl Next Door podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former

next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to

come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey, friend. Hey friend. Today we're talking about home

organization and home disorganization.

We'll both share home organization systems that are working for us, plus aspects of our homes or home life where we need help.

This is a second installment of a similar and very popular episode that we did back in January of 2019 called Organization That Works and we'll link to that

episode in the show notes. So let's just go back and forth and each share two home organization

systems that are working for us. Let's start with the wins. Okay. So for us right now,

I feel like we have finally gotten to a good groove with

the girls' chores, like the girls managing of themselves, because it changed a lot when we were not

in school. Like, so now, you know, usually I would have kind of maybe a list of a couple things for

them to do when they got home from school. And we weren't great about like an allowance, like being consistent with that. I had a hard time figuring out like,

okay, how do I give them an allowance while also making it clear that this is just,

these are just things you do to live here as a human. Yes. And contribute. Tell me more. Because

we have both an allowance system that works okay,

but I wouldn't even call it a chore system. And I have aspirations of incorporating chores.

So tell me what is working. Well, this has come to us with some struggle because that was working

until it changed the whole way we lived. And it was like, okay, well, now what? So here's what we have found is working.

The girls are involved in some kind of home reset chores every day, which is a double-edged

sort of loveliness because they have a responsibility that they know is just theirs.

They do not get paid for that.

That is just an everyday thing.

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