The Blog!
The House Shuffle Blog is all about optimizing your time and effort, not aesthetics. No fiddly suggestions and complicated systems that fall apart because they are too time consuming to keep up. These articles are here to help you make your life easier.
Take the Fair Play Method on the Road! Plan your holiday division of labor before you go to avoid fighting on vacation.
Take the Fair Play Method on the Road! Plan your holiday division of labor before you go to avoid fighting on vacation.
A blissful chance to relax and unwind or the same old work and stress in a different location?
The answer may depend on which family member you ask.
When Picking A Fight Is A Good Thing: Making Arguments Over Housework Productive with The Fair Play Method
How many of you would describe yourselves as “conflict avoidant”? Most of us will do pretty much anything to avoid an argument. We appease, we rationalize, we excuse, we let things go. Not having a confrontation feels like a success, even if it means compromising yourself. If you manage not to fight about something, it’s not a real problem, right?
What Do We Mean When We Talk About Housework?
Terms like emotional labor, mental load and the second shift get thrown around willy nilly. What are we talking about when we use those words? We lay out the differences between the three types of labor and define the second shift in this post.
The Fair Play Method and The House Shuffle: A Match Made in Heaven
What do you get when you combine a fair division of labor with optimized household systems? A peaceful home that practically runs itself.
Why Division of Labor is Your Most Important Household System (and how creating a fair one might save your relationship)
Are you at your wit’s end with your to-do list? Constantly feel like a nag? Ready to run away from home? We’re going to talk about how those feelings are related to your household’s division of labor and why figuring out how to split the chores fairly might just save your relationship.
6 People Who Will Love Remote Organizing
Remote organizing sounds like a really weird idea at first. Don’t we need to, like, touch your stuff? The answer is no! Here are six people who will love collaborating remotely and asynchronously instead of in-person.
Project Principle 3: Be Yourself
Whether we’re working on household systems, organization or design, we let you be you. We’ll push you to try new things, but we won’t try to fit you in a box.
Project Principle 2: Keep It Easy
You have more consequential things to do than trifling with housework. By optimizing for efficiency, maintaining your practical, comfortable home doesn’t need to suck up all your free time.
Project Principle 1: Use What You Have
We’re optimizers. Our method is driven by the desire to make the best use of what you already have. It’s already there. You already spent the money. Might as well make the most of the resources you have at hand!