{"id":704,"date":"2025-07-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:55:32","slug":"chores-those-scurvy-varmints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Chores. Those Scurvy Varmints."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As some of you may know, writing is currently my side gig and my full-time job is momming. This comes with all the joys and frustrations and responsibilities of mom life, which you can read all the mommy blogs for. All the stuff I&#8217;m gonna put here is explanation for why I made the upcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing I refuse to have happen to my kids is for them to be unable to function in daily life or not know how to take care of basic functions. But also I&#8217;m trying to keep chores from being drudgery or a shouting match. In that endeavor, I&#8217;ve decided to create a new job board which I hope will pique interest from the kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"897\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hairy-watterman.png\" alt=\"A black and white wanted poster. The text reads Wanted: Hairy &quot;The Stick&quot; Watterman; for wiping the floor with his enemies. Reward:  2 tokens\" class=\"wp-image-705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hairy-watterman.png 720w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hairy-watterman-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">For mopping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"873\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ruff-riders.png\" alt=\"A black and white wanted poster. Text reads Wanted: The Ruff Riders; for leaving a mess all over the territory. Reward: 2 tokens per full bag. The picture is of two dogs, one wearing a hat and bandanna and the other with a bandanna over its nose.\" class=\"wp-image-706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ruff-riders.png 645w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ruff-riders-222x300.png 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">For dog poop patrol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1001fonts.com\/reward-personal-use-font.html\">&#8220;Reward&#8221; font by Billy Argel<\/a> for the headers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1001fonts.com\/go-2-old-western-font.html\">Go 2 Old Western by Galdino Otten<\/a> for the rest of the text, then looked for images as a basis (the first was a search for &#8220;mop with eyes&#8221; and the second &#8220;squint dog&#8221;) which I then drew over the top of for the images. The plan is that these will be printed, laminated, and posted on a magnetic board (If I can find fun themed magnetic pins, even better) and can then be redeemed when the bounty hunter in question is in want of funds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tokens, incidentally, are in-house <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/exonumia\">exonumia<\/a><sup data-fn=\"8e624b05-6a99-4af0-94e6-6284ef9e8cd0\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#8e624b05-6a99-4af0-94e6-6284ef9e8cd0\" id=\"8e624b05-6a99-4af0-94e6-6284ef9e8cd0-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> which are earned for work or exemplary activity and can be exchanged for rewards. Including money, but usually these days for candy. (I&#8217;m subtly trying to teach them that saving is valuable; they can trade one token for 2 small pieces of candy but if they save for money, they can buy more. The markup is, as a side effect of their lack of desire to save, also saving me some cash.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully this is enjoyable for them and gets some response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Intellectual Property of Elizabeth Doman<br>Feel free to share via link<br>Do not copy to other websites or skim for AI training<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"8e624b05-6a99-4af0-94e6-6284ef9e8cd0\">The fact that one of the example sentences by dictionary.com for this is &#8220;Even spellcheck, as I write, is stumped by exonumia, which are items that resemble money but are not meant to circulate as money&#8221; makes me really amused <a href=\"#8e624b05-6a99-4af0-94e6-6284ef9e8cd0-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may know, writing is currently my side gig and my full-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"The fact that one of the example sentences by dictionary.com for this is \\\"Even spellcheck, as I write, is stumped by exonumia, which are items that resemble money but are not meant to circulate as money\\\" makes me really amused\",\"id\":\"8e624b05-6a99-4af0-94e6-6284ef9e8cd0\"}]"},"categories":[21,274,22],"tags":[581,576,107,579,578,582,577,580],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-digital-art","category-life-posts","tag-bounty","tag-chores","tag-drawing","tag-hairy-watterman","tag-ruff-riders","tag-tokens","tag-wanted-posters","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}