428 - Defining Housework Part 4 - Maintenance

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn more at organize365.com/podcast/defining-housework-maintenance</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In November of 2020, I did a two part podcast on the four kinds of work in business (</span><a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/kinds-of-work-1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">361</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">&</span> <a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/kinds-of-work-2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">362</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">). It turns out, there are also four kinds of housework, and I introduced these in</span> <a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/literature-review-research"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Podcast 418</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. There are many of these business concepts that also equate to our homes, we just don’t think of running our household like it is a business. We hear a lot about work/life balance as though these are two separate ways of getting things done. There are so many parallels between your day job and your home job. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few podcasts ago, I shared that Organize 365 is pursuing research about organization. One of the first challenges we faced is that we do not have a common vocabulary around work inside the house like we have for work in the workplace. As part of our research, we needed to define the words we were using in the survey questions. That meant, we needed to define housework. This is the final episode of a four part series that defines and explains the different kinds of work we all do inside of our homes. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I am sharing some details about the fourth kind of housework - maintenance. Home maintenance tasks are the tasks that the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">owner</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of the property is responsible for in order to increase the value of the home. This includes things like painting, updating flooring, r