#1: Since we tend to share meals, one person cooks, the other cleans up. #2: If your cat made the mess, you clean it up. #3: You keep your own area clean. #4: Whoever fills up the garbage can empties it and replaces the bag. Carrying it out to the dumpster is done by the next person to leave the house. #5: Everything else is done by taking turns, as it needs to be done. #6: If you start a job, finish it. Never do *half* the dishes or vacuum *half* a room. #7: If chores start getting unbalanced, the slacker takes the person doing the work out for dinner some night.
It works pretty well. We're both *messy* and have stuff all over the place, but it's not dirty.
#3b: You will have your own area, or the two of you will kill each other. Doesn't need to be a bedroom. Can be a desk, or a room corner, or something. But have it.
#8: Time spent alone on chores that benefit the household as a whole is time you get to spend doing whatever the hell you want later. This is informal and unarticulated. It is also rigidly enforced, as anyone (SO, roommate, or not) who attempts to convince me to do something I'm not in the mood for after six hours of struggling with window screens will get their head bitten off.
#9: Keep light cleaning supplies (Lysol, Windex, paper towels) handy. You're much more likely to do a spot clean if the requisite stuff is "over in the corner" not "down the hall, inside the cupboard, behind the dish soap", and spot cleans help.
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#2: If your cat made the mess, you clean it up.
#3: You keep your own area clean.
#4: Whoever fills up the garbage can empties it and replaces the bag. Carrying it out to the dumpster is done by the next person to leave the house.
#5: Everything else is done by taking turns, as it needs to be done.
#6: If you start a job, finish it. Never do *half* the dishes or vacuum *half* a room.
#7: If chores start getting unbalanced, the slacker takes the person doing the work out for dinner some night.
It works pretty well. We're both *messy* and have stuff all over the place, but it's not dirty.
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#8: Time spent alone on chores that benefit the household as a whole is time you get to spend doing whatever the hell you want later. This is informal and unarticulated. It is also rigidly enforced, as anyone (SO, roommate, or not) who attempts to convince me to do something I'm not in the mood for after six hours of struggling with window screens will get their head bitten off.
#9: Keep light cleaning supplies (Lysol, Windex, paper towels) handy. You're much more likely to do a spot clean if the requisite stuff is "over in the corner" not "down the hall, inside the cupboard, behind the dish soap", and spot cleans help.
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Me, it makes the difference between cleaning now and cleaning later.
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