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Chore chart for adults

A plain weekly housework checklist with no stickers and no cartoons. Add your name if you share a house, or leave it blank and pin it inside a cupboard door.

Whose chart is this?

Chores

    Or pick from the list

    Layout

    Chart runs
    Week starts
    Each day shows

    Tick the days, count the ticks and write each row's total in the blank column. The goal is the number to beat for the week.

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    Your chart is made on this device. ChartKid never sees the names you type.

    Why adults use chore charts too

    Nobody forgets that the kitchen needs cleaning. What people forget is whose turn it is, when the bathroom was last done, and whether the recycling goes out tonight. A chart answers those questions so you stop having the conversation.

    Daily, weekly, monthly: use all three

    Most housework falls into three rhythms. Daily: dishes, surfaces, a quick tidy. Weekly: bathroom, floors, laundry, bins. Monthly: the fridge, the oven, bedding, the windows. Make one chart for each rhythm rather than cramming everything onto one page, and the daily chart stays short enough to actually use. Switch "Chart runs" at the top of the Layout section to make the monthly one; it prints in landscape with a column for each day.

    Sharing a house

    If two or more adults share the work, add each person's name and you get one page per person with the same chores. Or make a single chart with no name and agree that the first person free does the next unticked job. The roommate chore chart is set up for houses where the jobs rotate.

    Be realistic about frequency

    A chart that says "mop floors" every day will be ignored by Tuesday and make you feel bad by Friday. Put jobs on the chart at the frequency you'll actually do them, not the frequency a magazine suggests. You can always tighten up later.

    Keep it off the fridge if you prefer

    Adult charts live happily inside a cupboard door, on the side of the washing machine or in a kitchen drawer. The Minimal theme is chosen here on purpose; if you'd like something warmer, any of the other themes work fine, and the Classroom one is surprisingly grown-up.