Roommate Cleaning Schedule

The roommate cleaning problem

You move in. Everyone says "we'll just figure it out as we go." Three weeks later there's mould on the shower curtain, the bin is overflowing, and someone is leaving passive-aggressive notes about whose turn it is. Sound familiar?

The fix isn't a "house meeting." It's a printed chart on the fridge that does the asking for you. Once it exists, the question stops being "is it my turn?" and becomes "what does the chart say?"

What a fair roommate rota looks like

A good shared-apartment cleaning schedule does three things:

• Covers everything — kitchen, bathroom, common areas, trash, recycling, floors.
• Rotates the worst tasks — toilet, shower, taking out the bin. No one person every week.
• Balances by effort, not just count — three small wipe-downs ≠ one deep bathroom clean.

Setting it up takes 60 seconds

1. Add your roommates' names.
2. Pick the rooms you share — kitchen, bathroom, living room, hallway, etc.
3. Hit "suggest from rooms" — we'll fill in the standard chores.
4. Tag the bad ones (toilet, trash) as annoying so they rotate.
5. Generate. Print. Done.

Modes for different vibes

Got one super-clean roommate and one chaos goblin? Use fixed-by-room mode so each person owns specific spaces. Want pure equality? Use fair rotation. Just want a starting point? Try roommate rota mode and tweak from there.

Make it stick

The single biggest predictor of whether a chore schedule survives is whether it's visible. Print it on A4. Tape it to the fridge. Send the WhatsApp summary every Sunday. The chart is the boss now.

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