Strong punishment or creative corrections and effective discipline

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When our children were young they had chores assigned to them and as all children do they tried to get out of it as often as they could. I was really tired of having to nag them and remind them to do their chores and I'm sure they eventually learned to tune me out. I found a book called creative correction and used it up until our youngest was8. It was a life saver and really worked wonders. I thought I'd share some neat ideas. 1. This one is kind of gross and I sure that some of you will think that we were mean parents but here it goes. The kids were to pick up the dog poopy from the back yard daily. Well they kept saying "we did it mom, we did it". As a parent you know that it takes longer than 30 seconds to pick up after a dog. Especially if you have a large back yard. We after telling them over and over "I'm going to check and if it isn't done you won't get paid for that chore" I would say it so much I got tired of hearing myself talk ha ha ha. So instead of saying it I just called them outside and had them take of their shoes and socks. At first they didn't know what to think. Well I told them "ok if you are positive that you did the chore and your being honest about it...then run througth the yard in your bare feet". Well it only took 1 time for them to realize that they needed to make a real effort because they didn't want squishy feet. Yuck but it really worked. Another one was cleaning up their toys. Again I was tired of nagging so after they went to school I would take a tour of the house and whatever toys they had left on the floor I would pick up and put in a box. At the end of two weeks I would pull out the box (I colored it and made it very appealing to the eye) and told them to come and look through the "treasure box". They were thrilled and when they looked inside they were happy to see all of their stuff. Well I told them that they could have it back but they had to purchase it. We gave them a weekly allowance so it's not like we were expecting to get a part time job. Wel after about a month of having to buy back theirthings...no more toys on the ground. What have been your methods of discipline?