One page, two columns, and a weight against every job, so the side that looks even actually is. Print it, fill it in together in about twenty minutes, and stick it somewhere you both walk past.
No email and no sign-up. One page, and it prints cleanly on A4 or US Letter from the same file.
Written by the team at Lyven · page last updated 18 September 2026.
Most chore charts for couples are a grid of tasks with two ticks boxes and a week across the top. That shape is why they stop working by the third week: it records who did the washing up, and says nothing about who remembered it needed doing.
This one has four columns instead. The job, written as the whole responsibility rather than the task. Who owns it, one name, not two. How often it comes round. And a weight, a rough number of minutes it costs each time, because a fortnightly bins run and a daily dinner are not the same job even though they are one row each.
There is a total at the bottom of each column. That total is the point of the whole page.
If you would rather not do the adding up by hand, the free Split Check asks a handful of questions and does the same sum in about two minutes.
A chart fixes the split on the day you write it. Nothing on the page maintains it. Four or five weeks in, the jobs that were handed over start coming back, usually one at a time and usually without anyone deciding they should.
The mechanism is nearly always the same. The job moved but the noticing did not, so the original owner is still the one tracking whether it has been done, and reminding is most of the work. A paper chart cannot tell you that is happening. What it can do is make the starting position explicit enough that you both notice when it slips.
Two things help. Put a date on the chart and diary a twenty minute look at it in a month. And when a job comes back, put it back on the chart rather than absorbing it, because the row moving is the signal. If you want the longer version of this, see what to do when the chores went back to you.
The template ships with the rows blank on purpose, because a household's jobs are its own. If you would rather start from a full list and cross off what does not apply, the printable household chores list has all 68 with their weights already filled in, and the annotated version explains what each one actually covers. Both are free and neither asks for an email either.
Before you redraw it, it is worth knowing where it actually sits. The Split Check is free, takes about two minutes and needs no account.
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