Weekly Cleaning Schedule
Hold your own weekly routine on one page and see what has actually been done. The jobs are yours to write in; the grid is the part worth printing.
CR-01 1 page
Cleaning and routines · CR-05
Household Chore Rota
A free printable household chore rota — names and initials across the top, jobs down the side, a column for each week of the month.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Split the jobs between everyone in the house before the month starts, so the question of whose turn it is has already been answered in writing.
Who it is for
Families, house shares, student houses and anyone tired of being the person who notices the bins.
How to use it
- Write everyone's name and initials in the key at the top.
- List the jobs down the left — keep them specific enough to be arguable.
- Agree who owns each job each week and write their initials in the box.
- Pin it up somewhere everyone passes, and print a fresh one each month.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Jobs down the side, weeks across the top, initials in the boxes. Filled in together at the start of the month, it stops being an argument about who did what last time.
How it works. Agree it before the month starts, not after somebody has already not done the bins. Write initials rather than names — the boxes are small, and initials are quick enough that people actually fill them in.
Write-on lines: Household · Month · Agreed on
Who is in the rota — names across the top, initials in the boxes below
Write-on lines: Name · Initials · Name · Initials · Name · Initials · Name · Initials
The rota — write the initials of whoever owns the job that week
Table, 9 rows: Job · Week 1 · Week 2 · Week 3 · Week 4 · Week 5
Questions
Should the rota rotate every week?
Only if the household wants it to. Some jobs are better left with whoever is least bad at them, and some are worth rotating precisely because nobody wants them. The sheet supports either — it just records what was agreed.
What if someone does not do their job?
The sheet will not fix that, but it does remove the argument about what was agreed, which is usually the part that takes the longest.
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