May 4, 2012 – 2:20 pm
03. HOUSEWORK
This time, let’s think about something completely mundane. Everyone has to do it, and I think there’s room for it to be a lot less onerous, more environmentally friendly, more fun and more fairly distributed.
Whether you have an idea for a service that takes care of chores, delivers household goods or performs certain tasks; whether you have a clever way of doing the dishes that takes less time or a special system for getting the housework done; whether you’ve got a way to divide up or incentivise tasks so that the kids practically beg to get involved… or whether it’s an idea for grass-stain resistant kids clothes or compostable underwear that saves you laundry time – let’s hear it.
What are your ideas for housework-type chores?
We’re using a Creative Commons licence: Attribution, non-commercial, share alike. That is, you can use any of the ideas presented in the comments of this series of blog posts for any non-commercial use, as long as you give credit for whose idea it is, and that the thing you make is also shared in the same way..
But to make things easier for people who DO want to pick up any of the ideas here and run with them on a commercial basis – you have permission, so long as you ensure that you cut the person whose idea it is in for ONE PERCENT (1%). That’s only fair.
Look forward to seeing your ideas in the comments…
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OK, so what I am about to say is hardly something you’re likely to want to discuss over a dinner party, and it’s hardly a groundbreakingly innovative idea, but my desire to reuse/recycle wherever possible leads me to the following:
Before throwing away socks/pants I’m never going to wear again, I use them once to clean the perimeter of my toilet. No need to use new resources for such a task.
If anybody else does this too, I don’t want 1% of your old socks. ;-)