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Jeff Kaufman
@jefftk.com

It's great when you can give chores to the person with the highest standards in that area, but you don't want that to turn into one person doing all the chores. Some strategies for cases where partners or housemates have pretty different standards.

jefftk.comChore Standardsdraft post A common source of friction within couples or between housemates is differing quality standards. Perhaps I hate the feeling of grit under my feet but my housemate who is responsible for sw...

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irilyth
@irilyth.bsky.social

> Make the need more salient. I use this just to get *myself* to do things that I care about: If I can't or don't want to do something right now, but really do want to do it at some point soon, I try to put it somewhere where it'll annoy me, rather than somewhere where I can comfortably ignore it.