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Sixty one recurring obligations, and one person is doing fifty of them
Everything a household of four actually has to do, listed, dated and assigned.
You asked for a chore rota. The inventory found 61 recurring household obligations, of which 34 are invisible tasks nobody thinks of as chores: renewals, appointments, forms, reordering, remembering. Fifty of the 61 currently sit with one person, and it is not the person who asked for the rota.
Twenty seven of the 61 are visible tasks like cleaning and cooking, which are already shared reasonably. Thirty four are administrative and almost all of them are Priya's, including every one that has a deadline attached.
Inventory
What the household actually has to do
| Category | Tasks | Visible? | Currently | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning and tidying | 11 | Visible | Shared, roughly | Weekly |
| Cooking and food | 8 | Visible | Shared | Daily |
| Laundry | 4 | Visible | Priya | Weekly |
| Outdoor and bins | 4 | Visible | Tomas | Weekly |
| Bills and renewals | 9 | Invisible | Priya | Monthly to annual |
| Appointments, all four people | 7 | Invisible | Priya | Varies |
| School and forms | 6 | Invisible | Priya | Termly |
| Home maintenance | 8 | Invisible | Priya remembers, Tomas does | Annual |
| Reordering and supplies | 6 | Invisible | Priya | Monthly |
| Car and travel admin | 5 | Invisible | Tomas | Annual |
| Family and social | 3 | Invisible | Priya | Varies |
| Total | 61 |
The home maintenance row is the pattern in miniature. Tomas does the task and Priya remembers that it needs doing, which is two jobs, and only one of them is visible from the outside.
Reallocation
A split that moves the right things
| Now | Proposed | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bills and renewals | Priya | Tomas | Whole category moves |
| Car and travel admin | Tomas | Tomas | Unchanged |
| Home maintenance | Split | Tomas, both parts | Owns remembering too |
| Reordering and supplies | Priya | Automated, then Tomas | Section 03 |
| Appointments | Priya | Priya | Stays, with a shared calendar |
| School and forms | Priya | Priya | Stays |
| Laundry | Priya | Teenagers, own only | Both are old enough |
| Family and social | Priya | Split by side of family | Obvious once said |
This moves 19 of the 34 invisible tasks. It deliberately leaves appointments and school with Priya, because she holds the context and moving those would create more work than it removes. The aim is a fairer split, not a symmetrical one.
Removal
Eleven tasks that can stop existing
The best household task is one that no longer needs a person. Eleven of the 61 can be automated, batched or deleted outright.
| Task | Action | Saves |
|---|---|---|
| Reordering six household staples | Subscription delivery, monthly | 6 tasks a month |
| Remembering bin day | Council calendar into the shared calendar | Weekly nagging |
| Chasing the boiler service | Annual service plan with automatic booking | One annual task and one argument |
| Water filter cartridges | Subscribe | Quarterly |
| Checking whether the car tax is due | Automatic renewal, already available | Annual |
| Buying birthday cards in a hurry | Six months bought in one trip | Five panics a year |
| Deciding what is for dinner | A repeating four week rotation | Seven decisions a week |
The last row is the largest. Seven decisions a week, every week, made at the least resourceful moment of the day. A repeating rotation removes the decision without removing the cooking, and it is the single highest value change in this document.
Calendar
The next sixty days
- 2 Nov
Boiler service due
Annual. Last done 4 November 2025.
- 8 Nov
Dentist, all four
Booked. Two appointments, two hours apart.
- 14 Nov
Car insurance renews
Tomas.
- 20 Nov
Parents evening
Booking opens 3 November.
- 1 Dec
Gutter clearing
Annual, and overdue by a year.
- 5 Dec
Broadband contract ends
Out of contract from here.
- 12 Dec
Christmas post deadline, international
One parcel abroad.
- 19 Dec
Term ends
- 3 Jan
Home insurance renews
Nine dated items in sixty days. Before this document, all nine lived in one person's head.
- Bills and renewals moved to Tomas, with the logins
- Six staples on subscription
- Four week meal rotation written
- Teenagers doing their own laundry from Monday
- Nine dates in a shared calendar, not one person's phone
- Fifteen minutes on a Sunday to look at the week