Yeah, a cookie, a little trophy, or something for being so meticulous.

Well, not me, because I blew the smoke detector deadline by 7 months, but the prospect of some recognition would have been motivational.

Society is so coercive.  If you don’t do the things, you get hammered.  Stop paying your taxes, and it’s a big hassle.  How about a little reward for doing more than the minimum?.

Having all your smoke detectors properly installed and maintained is worth a cookie.

Replacing the anode rod on your water heater.  I bet that me and Norm are the only people who have ever done that in the history of Western Civilization.

Changing the oil in your lawn mower.  My dad used to change the oil in Mom’s car, put the old oil in his car, and the oil from his car would go in the lawn mower.  I don’t know if we were poor or dad just thought that shit was funny.

Calibrating your oven thermostat.

There are probably more things, and we’d need stringent guidelines so people from Minnesota don’t game the system to steal extra cookies.

Here’s Chris Rock explaining about doing the things.