The household calendar

Everyone in the house, on the same page.

One calendar for the whole household, whether that’s a partner, a couple of roommates or a family of five. The chores, the birthdays and the things that only come around twice a year are on it before anyone types a thing.

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nobody had to make a shared google calendar. a miracle.

Already filled in

A calendar that already knows.

Most shared calendars start empty and stay exactly as good as the effort you keep pouring in. This one is a view of things the house already has: chores land on the day they’re due and birthdays show up in time to do something.

Sun

12

Mon

13

Tue

14

Wed

15

Thu

16

Fri

17

Sat

18

it scrolls sideways

Both are invisible, both come around again, and neither is ever the most urgent thing today, yet both cost something with another person when they slip.

Brian Long, on friendships and housework

While you were out

Who has got what

Know it’s handled without having to ask.

Every open job sits in one pool and anybody can take one. Once it’s claimed it has a name on it, and once it’s done it stays done, with the minutes it was worth. Most of the friction in a house comes from not knowing whether something is handled, and this answers that at a glance.

The slow ones

The things that only come around twice a year.

Daily and weekly are easy. What gets lost is the filter nobody remembers, the gutters, and the car inspection somebody did once and can’t say when. Every three months, six or twelve, they come back on their own.

Clean the gutters

Twice a year. Next in Apr.