Chore Charts...

This is a chore chart. It might look familiar to a lot of you. I was talking with my friend tonight about our personality traits while we were taking a personality test. One of the questions had to deal with how did we handle chores. Well I hated chores because
1) My mom would repeat the chore a million times until I did it
2) I could never do it on my own time
3) There was no one else to do the chore for me
4) I had a dumb chore chart with stickers that I put on it.

Let me tell you why I hated this chore chart. Seeing the things that needed to be done was depressing because I would rather spend my time outside playing. I hated taking out the trash and I hated folding towels even though I am a PRO towel folder. Just ask my Mom. I was and still am the type of child that doesn't like to be told what to do unless I want to do it. So if it's something I will enjoy doing I'll hop to it, but if I don't really want to do it I will wait until the last minute to do it. This is why my Mom told me a million times to unload or load the dishwasher. Part of that is because when I unload the dishwasher I have to organize everything and plan how I am going to put it all away so it takes the least amount of time. But back to the chore chart. I think they were invented partly so that kids could feel satisfaction from putting a sticker on the board and so they could compete with their siblings for a prize or something. Well I had no siblings, I was competing with no one and I'm pretty sure I played with stickers all the time. So chore charts didn't work for me. When I came to college one of my roommates suggested that we have a chore chart. If only you could see the look of disgust on my face, I looked at that girl and told her heck no I was not going to have a chore chart because I wouldn't do it and I didn't want somebody telling me what to do that wasn't my Momma. I'm more of the you clean up your own stuff and I'll clean up the apartment if I'm feeling charitable enough or if someone is coming over so it doesn't look like a dump. So if someone else prepares a checklist for me, odds are, I won't do it. I used to hate these little notes my mom would put on the door when I would come home from school. It would say, "Jessie please take out the trash. Love you! Mom ;) " Ugh. I still see them in my mind and hate them. haha.

But this all has a point. I'm a red personality. I just took the test which I was pretty sure that I was a red the last time I took it. I am motivated by POWER. Which means I like to do things my own way. You've got that right. But I've got a lot of other qualities as well. So I'm not just red... don't worry I won't bite your head off-- unless-- well you will be able to tell when I want to bite it off.