Organization is key

According to one of the editors on the polyfamilies website, organization increases harmony in a polyfamily. Task lists and menus help in getting organized. As a matter of fact, if you want to limit food shopping to once a week, it is always helpful to draw a week's menu -- poly or not. So that did not come as a surprise to me, but from that polyfamily's story, I understand that they considered task lists as overorganized and 'not done' prior to their poly life... but the poly life made it necessary to keep on going on well with each other.