I still think of myself as a newlywed. A newlywed with two children, a mortgage and a minivan but still…my husband and I have been married for only five years and we’re still figuring everything out. For example, it seems as though my husband can’t read my mind!

Keeping with the spring cleaning theme from Friday’s post…let’s talk about chores.

Because I am a work at home mom, and a busy one at that, I need help on the chore front. When everything gets piled up, I get overwhelmed and can’t focus on anything. If I have to keep walking past a basket of laundry begging to be folded or looking at a TV covered in sticky finger prints, I go a little nuts. “Why am I the only person who sees these things?” I ask myself. “Am I the only person around here who can hang up a frickin’ winter jacket?” I wonder.

The funny thing is, I’ve noticed when I ask my husband to fold some laundry or hang up a coat he just says “sure” and does it.

Hmmm.

For the past few months I’ve been *meaning* to create a schedule of chores to hang on the fridge so that each Mann in our house knows what chores he or she is responsible for. That’s work in itself so it hasn’t happened yet…not until today, I should say.

Enter: Chore Buster. The coolest website ever for dividing up chores. You register for a free account, enter the names of people who do chores in your house AND their email addresses so they can be emailed their chores daily or weekly.

Then you enter your chores. You can even pick which days of the week they’re to be done, how often, how hard the chore is and who should NOT do that particular chore.

When that’s all done you’re left with a handy sheet you can print off and hang on your fridge to keep you on track of who does what everyday.

I hope this makes the chore division around here a little more even and maybe even a little more fun. Until Mr. Mann starts reading my mind of course.

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