Lisa WoodruffCEO and founder, Organize 365

Housework: The Hot Mess Theory Part 2 with Jacqui Ioli #497 - Duplicate Binders for Caretakers

19 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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Jacqui Ioli explains a system for caregivers managing a parent's household from a distance: duplicate binders at both homes let the caregiver reference exact pages without traveling, plus a Sunday basket pre-packs the week's supplies. The parent stays involved in decisions while saving time on commutes.

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Implementing a Sunday basket can be— and a binder. Oh, and that empowered Mom. I had a binder for her, like one household operations binder, and I kept a mirror copy at home. And you're like, why did you do that? Because she wanted to be involved in everything. Well, she's a grown-up, it's her stuff. Yeah. And then that way I'm like, Mom, it's in the red tab, the 3rd page, let's look at that. And then— You had an exact duplicate at home? I did. Oh, that is brilliant. I made a duplicate because the problem was she lived 25 minutes with no traffic, 30 minutes with traffic away. Yeah, which isn't so far away, right? It's probably, I don't know, 7 miles. But you know, if you're in a suburb of Philadelphia, it can take a while. Yeah. And like, I just didn't have the time to do what I needed to do at my own house and go to her house and open the binder and go to the 3rd page.