Chore Charts for sanity
Keeping your home clean and tidy is an important family responsibility. The whole family can benefit from having a predictable routine in order to achieve the goal of a happy, tidy home. Our family likes to have a schedule for keeping the house clean, especially since the kids have jobs each day to complete in order to be helpful and responsible members of the family.
We have different categories:
1. Daily chores: jobs done everyday
2. Weekly chores: jobs done on certain days of the week
3. Monthly chores: jobs done once a month on Fridays
4. Quarterly chores: jobs done about every 3 months or so
5. Yearly chores: jobs completed at the start of the new year
The daily chores are shared with everyone: make your bed, personal hygiene practices, load of laundry, dishes, and general pick-up/put-away of the “things” (example: shoes, books, toys, trash, etc...).
Weekly chores are organized by zones:
Monday= Bedrooms
Tuesday= Bathrooms
Wednesday= Kitchen
Thursday= Living room
Friday= monthly rotation
Saturday= Outside and Basement
Sunday= Trash round up and out (Monday is our trash pick-up day)
*throughout the week we sprinkle in animal care jobs like litter boxes
** we also use Thursday as our floor cleaning day since the vacuum and mop are a good team to travel throughout the house at the same time. Plus, then we don't need to get them out every single day. Other days, we will dust mop to keep the pet hair under control.
Here is an example of what are schedule looks like:
After the daily and weekly schedule, you can see what jobs are done less often here:
