Household responsibilities
Assign a clear outcome, share the workload and check whether a job is finished.
- How to assign a backup without giving two people the same job
- How to assign a task without mistaking a request for acceptance
- How to assign work when both adults are already at capacity
- How to close a recurring responsibility when it no longer applies
- How to decide who should attend a service visit
- How to divide evening jobs when one person works late
- How to divide recurring jobs that take different kinds of effort
- How to give one person responsibility for an entire household job
- How to hand over a household job for a week away
- How to handle a household task that depends on a reply
- How to handle a job that one person does much faster
- How to manage tasks with a firm deadline and an earlier personal target
- How to review a chore that keeps coming back unfinished
- How to rotate chores without forgetting whose turn it is
- How to share a weekend project across several short sessions
- How to share the work of remembering what needs doing
- How to split a task when one person has access and another has time
- How to stop one person becoming the household help desk