Do you want the tools already built?
The Payday Pack
The Sorting Kit is about to hand you around forty decisions. The Payday Pack is every tool you need to actually run the system, made up and ready to print tonight.
Here's what happens next, if I'm honest with you.
You'll read the kit tonight. It'll make sense. You'll know which jobs are free, which ones pay, and what each one is worth at your kids' ages.
Then somewhere around Thursday you'll go looking for something to run it on. Something for the fridge. Cards for the jobs. A rate written down where nobody can argue with it. Something for them to fill in so it isn't all on you to remember.
And you'll end up making the lot yourself, at nine o'clock at night, on the back of a school newsletter.
That's what this is. All of it, already made.
Two documents. One walks you through how each piece works and how to run it. The other is the tools on their own, ready to print, cut out and use.
Eight tools (pre-filled and blank!):
✔ The job invoices: Your child fills one in and hands it to you before they get paid (super funny and cute when your 7 year old hands you an invoice!).
✔ Chore charts: for 3 to 6, 7 to 9, and 10 and up.
✔ Family job cards: The free ones. Cut out, stick up, done arguing.
✔ Paid job cards: with a rate range already on each one.
✔ Seven challenge cards: for earning that has nothing to do with chores, each one capped. Plus one card that isn't a payment at all: permission not payment!
✔ The rate card: for the fridge, this is the page that ends the negotiating.
✔ Week three: the restart for when it falls over (because it will!).
✔ The tracker: Up to 4 kids, 12 weeks, what each of them earned.
And every tool comes twice!
Filled in, so you can print it tonight and start. And blank, so you can put your own jobs, your own rates and your own challenges on it.
Because your house has jobs mine doesn't, and a pack that can't be changed or adapted gets used for about a fortnight.
Start with the invoices
This is the piece I'd keep if you threw the rest away.
Before your child gets paid, they fill one in and hand it to you. Job, agreed rate, is it finished, signed.
Every chore chart in the world teaches a child to do a job. None of them teach the part that actually matters later, which is asking to be paid, properly, for work you've finished.
It also ends two arguments before they start. There's no "I did do it", because it's written down. And there's no haggling afterwards, because the rate went on the form (from the rate card) before the job started.
You stop chasing them. They start chasing you. You go from chore police to the person who approves invoices, and that is a much better job.
One page stops it costing you a fortune.
The rate card has a ceiling on it. Paid jobs and challenges together shouldn't routinely more than double whatever pocket money your child already gets, and there's a line to write your number on so everyone is on the same page.
$17. Added to the order you just made
One thing The Payday Pack doesn't do: it won't tell you how much pocket money to give, how often, or how to split it between saving, spending and giving. That's Pocket Money That Actually Works, and it's a separate decision.
Note: if your child is aged 4 or below, this kit may be too soon for you (you will definitely need it one day though!). For under 4s, you should concentrate on a good pocket money system first. It can be found here
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