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Household Management

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Household Management

Learn the work of running a household.

Household Management equips you with the knowledge and practical habits needed to run a home confidently, thoughtfully, and responsibly. Through hands-on projects and real-life scenarios, you explore food planning and preparation, nutrition, budgeting, consumer decisions, clothing and textile care, organization, and the effective use of time and resources. The course emphasizes independence, well-being, and the skills needed to make informed choices for yourself and the people you live with.

The Courses

Four movements, twenty courses.

The order is deliberate. The first movement is the everyday work; the rest build on it. You do not have to go straight through, but each course assumes the ones before it are within reach.

Run the Household
Units 1 to 16. The everyday operating skills: food, home, money, health, records, and the systems that hold them together.
1
Running a Household
Planning
2
Cooking Fundamentals
Food
3
Nutrition & Meal Planning
Food
4
Food Buying, Storage & Pantry Management
Food
5
Cleaning, Laundry & Sanitation
Skills
6
Clothing Care, Sewing & Mending
Skills
7
Housing, Renting & Homeownership
Shelter
8
Tools, Maintenance & Basic Repairs
Skills
9
Water, Energy, Utilities & Waste
Energy
10
Money, Paychecks, Banking & Taxes
Planning
11
Buying, Credit, Insurance & Consumer Decisions
Planning
12
Household Health, Safety & Caregiving
Medical
13
Family, Relationships & Shared Living
Planning
14
Work, Career & Time Management
Planning
15
Transportation & Vehicle Ownership
Transportation
16
Household Records, Digital Life & Communications
Planning
Prepare
Unit 17. Getting the household ready before anything goes wrong.
17
Household Preparedness & Continuity
Planning
Endure & Recover
Units 18 to 19. Working through a disruption, then putting the household back together.
18
Managing Household Disruptions
Disruptions
19
Household Recovery & Rebuilding
Recovery
Prove It
Unit 20. Bringing it together and showing the household can run without depending on one person.
20
Household Capability Project
Capstone

Course pages open as their modules are written. For now this is the map of what is coming and the order it follows.

Learn, Then Test

Two ways to check what stuck.

A course teaches. My Skills and My Knowledge are where you find out what held. Skills is the hands-on side, the things you can do. Knowledge is the recall side, the things worth knowing cold. Neither is a grade. They show you where a course landed and where it is worth going back.

Go to My Skills Go to My Knowledge