Five Point Project Management Criteria

The Frugal Writer's stringent criteria for attempting any at home project is as follows:

• It has to be easy to do
• It must save money or time (or both!)
• It should be environmentally friendly, or at least improve conservation efforts (reduce, recycle, reuse)
• It must require less than 5 steps and/or 5 ingredients or less
• It must be a project that can be broken down and completed in 15 minute increments

This criteria follows for any cooking recipe, craft project, chore around the house and any other thing that I would like to accomplish with kids underfoot.  If a project does not meet this criteria, it will probably not get done unless the kids are elsewhere and I still have the energy and will to complete it.

This set of standards is a great way for me to let go of pipe dreams, such as exotic recipes or anything else with zero guilt.  And, yes, I have assembled IKEA cabinetry in 15 minute increments...