Do you and your spouse formally divvy up chores? Things in our house are getting out of hand and we're trying to figure out if this is a better strategy. Than us both scrambling all the time.

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I second this.

We talked about what we like/dislike doing and what we’re good at. Made things a bit easier to divide and conquer.

We landed on me cooking, and him doing dishes. I mostly clean bathrooms, he mostly takes trash out. We both do laundry, vacuum, empty the dishwasher, and keep the place tidy.

It has definitely helped reduce tension around chores and increased ownership of activities without creating blame scenarios. So even though he mostly takes the trash out, I’m not snapping on him if he forgets or asks me to step in. And even though I mostly clean bathrooms, he’s not upset if I ask him to clean before company comes over if I’m out.

For the things we completely handle, the other person is pretty hands off. So I don’t touch the dishes unless he asks or I see that he’s stressed. And he doesn’t try to figure out what we’re having for dinner unless I ask or he sees I’m having a crazy day.

Definitely took some time, but we’re finally in a groove. Hope this helps!

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My wife does the laundry. I handle the kitchen - cooking and cleanup - as well as the yard (because I enjoy cooking and yard work). We outsource the rest - best $500/month we spend.

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Cannot recommend enough looking into services you can use to help out, was very surprised to find that a lot of them were well within reach financially. But aside from that, we try to keep on top of things through the week, dishes/laundry, and have a big cleaning day on the weekend. Doesn’t take but a couple hours.

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How did you find the services - any go to resources / websites / apps?

So we kind of divvy up chores but its nothing really formal. We are both really good about doing things that need to get done no matter whos "chore" it technically is. We also have a house keeper that comes once a week and deep cleans because we both have very demanding jobs and it can be really hard and overwhelming to try and stay on top of it all.

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