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Share the housework fairly with a weekly rota
Get a fair cleaning rota that suits everyone's age and schedule, with each person's jobs added to the family calendar.
When to use it
Set up once, refresh each school term
Step by step
List the jobs and the people
Write down every regular job (bins, bathroom, hoovering, laundry, dishwasher) and who lives in the house, including children's ages and busy days.
Ask for a fair rota
Paste your list into your AI assistant with this prompt.
Prompt to copyCreate a weekly household cleaning rota. People: [names, ages and busy days]. Jobs and how often: [list jobs, e.g. bins - weekly Thursday, bathroom - weekly, hoover downstairs - twice a week]. Give age-appropriate jobs to children, balance the total time so it feels fair, rotate the least popular jobs, and keep each person's daily load under [20] minutes. Output a table by day and person, plus a total minutes per person per week.Add jobs to the calendar
Create a recurring event for each person's jobs in a shared Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar, so reminders pop up on their phone.
Review after two weeks
Ask everyone what's working, then tell the assistant what to swap and ask for an updated rota.
What you get
Mon: Alex (14) - empty dishwasher (10m); Priya - hoover downstairs (15m). Thu: Sam (9) - recycling out with a grown-up (5m)... Weekly totals: Priya 95m, Tom 90m, Alex 60m, Sam 30m. Bathroom rotates between Tom and Priya.
Tips
- Swapping jobs is fine, but agree that swaps get written on the rota so nothing gets missed.