Just my family, but we’d have a tough time w/so many cards and having to bring them to mom. I started off w/a list of morning routine things…make bed, brush teeth, eat breakfast, pet duties. If my kids finish all this w/in one hour of waking they get to watch a short tv show while they eat lunch. My son dawdled once and lost the privilege while his sister watched and was on the ball the next day:)
They both know to always rinse their dishes after eating and put them in the dishwasher, and they’re supposed to pick up after themselves…no lists/cards for this. When they get slack I’ll sometime start requiring them to walk the item to it’s proper place ‘their age.’ So if a dish/piece of trash is left out by 10 year old…walk it to dishwasher/trash 10 times. They learn it’s much easier to just do it once:)
I take care of laundry, they just have to put away. For weekly chores, it’s simpler for me to schedule it one time weekly than break it up all week. Saturdays are usually quiet around here, so everybody has chore assignments. One kid vaccums and dusts upstairs, one downstairs. They each have certain bathrooms to clean, one empties small trash cans. I do wood floors. It only takes about an hour and house is good enough for another week.
We’re not perfect with it, but things generally stay pretty clean. And keeping chores to a short morning list and once on the weekend helps keep my nagging to a minimum:) Hope you find a system that works soon! Blessings, Gina