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Crack the Internet Whip for the Kids' Chores

by Terrence O'Brien on July 27, 2007 at 01:48 PM

Automatically Dole Out Chores

The Internet and computers can do almost anything for us these days, even parent.

For doling out household chores, there's a new service called Chore Buster. Who can be bothered with telling the tykes to vacuum every Thursday? Instead, go sign up at the free site ... we'll wait. Next, add the list of people who will be performing chores along with their names and e-mail address for reminders and weekly agendas. Finally, assign the level of chores each person receives, which can range from normal to barely any.

Then it's time to create the chore list. You can use some presets to save you time typing, but when creating from scratch you'll need to name a chore, choose the day it is due, set a recurrence schedule and a fairness level based on how easy or hard the chore is.

The site will then spit out a schedule based upon the fairness level of chores and what percentage a person should be getting. Weekly chore lists and daily reminders are sent out to the children (and spouse) via e-mail.

Now, if only someone would invent the Spanking Robot, we wouldn't have to be bothered with our offspring at all.

From Red Ferret Journal

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Tags: automation, chore buster, ChoreBuster, chores, pointless, web

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