Dorm Room Cleaning Schedule

Who this is for

College students living in dorms. Different problem than student houses — no real kitchen, shared bathrooms, only one private space.

Dorm cleaning is its own thing. You don't have a kitchen. The bathroom isn't your responsibility (mostly). All you really control is one shared room — and how it looks decides whether you and your roommate get along.

Five minutes a day is enough. Make the bed (or don't, but stash bedding), one surface tidied, one floor strip vacuumed/swept, bin out when 80% full. That's it. Skip the rest.

Dorm cleaning: 10 minutes a day, that's the whole game

A dorm room is small enough that 10 minutes of daily attention keeps it indefinitely liveable. The problem is rarely time — it is starting. A printed chart on the inside of the door turns "should I clean today?" into "yes, it's on the chart".

Shared-bathroom etiquette

• Hair out of the drain after every shower — non-negotiable.
• Don't leave personal items on shared counters.
• If the rota has you on bathroom duty, do it on the day. Roommates notice.

How fairness is calculated

Behind the scenes, every chore gets a numeric weight from its effort (small / medium / large), frequency, and a difficulty modifier for the genuinely unpleasant tasks. The algorithm distributes weight across people, not chore counts — three counter wipes do not equal one toilet scrub, and the schedule respects that. Annoying tasks rotate separately so the same person never gets the bin two weeks running. Full details on the methodology page.

How to use it

1. Add yourself + your roommate to the rota. Even if it's just splitting bin duty.
2. Pick: Bedroom, Living room (= the dorm room itself), Trash. That's the universe of dorm cleaning.
3. Generate weekly with daily-frequency tasks. Tiny daily wins beat monthly attempts.
4. Print one A4 sheet, blu-tack to the wall. Visibility = compliance.

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