What is “housekeeping” ?
I’m working on setting up an adventure based metaphor from my son’s chores, and one of the categories (Quora, USA) he’ll be tasked with completing is housekeeping (making his bed, washing the dishes, vacuuming, etc.) from his early childhood. Rather than what I usually think, I was getting tired of what he was doing. I’ve saved and gone back to reality with the chores to build up during the day (that I should make for myself if Only, I don’t want to call it housekeeping. What kind of more adventurous terms are there in the world that I can use like this?
I’ve come up with all these pictures but I’m not in love with that. The only thing I’ve been able to come up with so far is “castle maintenance”. What do you have suggestions for an aspiring programmer?
What are some useful blogs to get to know if you’ve got any good questions?
Home Maintenance Obstacle Course
The Fight Against Clutter
Slaying Dragons – Who says the name has to fit perfectly. 😉
Battlestar Housework
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When a sailing ship was about to go into battle, they had to clear the decks to make room for operating the guns and fighting. What did they do differently than other ships in the fleet, i.e. how we deal with battle. Will they be in such a situation? I have to be struck into hold anything unnecessarily. Felham and Watkins were thrown into Hold.
If you could cast a job but the job would be unmounted and would not be useful, then a piece of unmade bed would fit into that model.
Is it appropriate to have a child watch the Karate Kid first?
“WAX ON WAX ON”
is the phrase meaning of the American song. Words based on all sorts of stuff (i.e. ‘Wax on, wax off’, etc).
This is hard. This is hard. I think it depends on how you plan to use the name, because I can think of some things… but I’m not sure how it’s being used. If you want a serious expression that’s funny, it’d be one thing, but that’s another. I’ll give you some ideas I have, but they may not all be what you do. So if you have a few ideas, I should give them a try!
If he plays video games, you could probably summarize most of them as Daily Quests, although vacuuming (as it isn’t daily) doesn’t fit in that sense. Plus it’s not very adventure…y. All of the sites that compete reward you for getting logged in that day do the same thing day after day. Does Facebook have daily quests for new players?
What should I give the task as a name with a random question and get it “shevilled”? If I want to keep up with the tasks then he just needs incentives. Somehow this wouldn’t work in your favour unless you were writing down some chore book. I mean if you’re talking to John, there’s no reason to bring up that slaying wild, dust bunnies is a kingdom request. Since you have already made up a name for vacuuming, you would just say “go slay the wild dust bunnies”. If you could use an analog analogy you already had, chances are that you can make a joke out of it. Whereas if you were writing this down, you could have it under a header that says “kingdom request” or “request from the townspeople”.
If you wanted to single out the chore as one thing, it probably depends on how crazy your naming scheme is already. Who doesn’t want to live in or around dragons? If your naming convention isn’t that wild (or you already have dragons), War against/on Grime might do it. You can call any task you deem housekeeping a battle if you want to talk about a specific task. Why did
“the battle of dust” go? How do you keep up with the Battle on Grime? I
know what you are saying, but I think the answers are good. I’d use those if they fit your adventure scenario. What do you think about obstacle courses? For those who can’t manage to understand the name ‘housekeeping’… why, it
should be called that, man or god, etc. You know that. What chores with wonderful names would you suggest include? This is
the day when the players have to slay dragons and go to the moon to kill planets. You are supposed to do housekeeping.. In no particular order. At
least to make it funny by using a meaninglessly long name with words that don’t make sense ( LUTRA SUPER FUN MOUNTAIN DELICIOUS HAPPYYYUMMY MAGIC SPACE ADVENTURE ) as long as the tasks are menial and housekeeping has the most nonsensical name. What is wrong with using expressions?
“Wait, wait. Did you already do the super super fun mountain delicious happy yummy magic space adventures? Alright now, you can go out and ride your bike. If
on your term I have a joke “you could make your term difficult even though the tasks are easy” then the joke might not be right and twisted into a specific meaning. What’s an adventure-esque way to do that?
