The 7 Day Challenge: Day 4

Here is today's challenge from Jodi and Julie over at Food Storage Made Easy.  I'm turning this challenge around so that it's G.W. who is leaving and I have to learn how to manage without him.  I don't know much about basic car maintenance or home repairs. If the lawn tractor quit running, I'd be clueless.  My normal response when something quits working is to ask G.W. to look at it.

It'll take more than just this one day to learn all the skills I need, but at least I'm aware now that there's a giant gap in my skill-set!




One of your elderly parents (or grandparents, or dear friend, or child) is having severe health problems and can no longer afford home health care. You were asked to come and live with them for 2 months to help out with their day to day living and have to leave TOMORROW. Today you must help your family prepare for you to have an extended “leave of absence”. If you are single focus on getting your own affairs settled.
Goal: Teach your family knowledge and skills that depend on you

Today’s Tasks:

• Teach the other members of your household how to do any tasks that normally fall to you (i.e. laundry, cooking basics, mowing the lawn, car maintenance, etc.)
• Make sure to pass any financial information on to your spouse, significant other, or another family member. (Use this questionnaire we made last year as a starting point of the type of info you should pass on)
• If you’re the one in charge of managing the family schedule and routines, write it all out and make assignments or arrangements for how the family could make it without you
• If you live alone, make a plan for who would look after your house/affairs if you had to leave suddently
• Make a list of all your logins for important websites that family members may need to access. Either print it and put it somewhere secure or save it in a secure manner on your computer
• SHARING TIME: What is the ONE task that would be hardest for someone else to take over if you were gone for two months? Share in the blog comments or over on our Facebook page.