One owner per job: who owns which job
What it does: you give every regular job one owner, a backup and what “done” means. What you get: a fridge list to print, save or send. Others add their version and you combine them. About 10 minutes
A shared list that gives every regular job one clear owner, for a household, a team, or a family sharing someone’s care, so you can stop re-deciding who does what every week.
Your list, ready for the fridge
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Every job gets one owner.
The owner does the job and sees it through. If you like, add a helper who pitches in or notices if it slips. The helper is optional.
Dig deeper: the owner and the helper -
Go down the list together.
Start with the common jobs on the sheet, like groceries, dishes, bills and the family calendar, and add your own rows. For each, write how often it happens and who owns it.
Dig deeper: the agreement table -
Change it on purpose, not by drift.
When life changes, either of you can ask to revisit it at your weekly catch-up. Write the change into the table, with the date, rather than one person quietly doing more.
Dig deeper: how to update it -
Agreeing means clear, not perfect.
Agreeing says everyone sharing the list knows who owns what, as written. It doesn’t say every job feels perfectly fair.
Dig deeper: agreeing together -
Count how many jobs have an owner.
Count the jobs with an owner written in, out of all the jobs on the list. Starter examples you never filled in don’t count. The aim is simple: every job has one name next to it.
Dig deeper: counting the jobs with an owner
Try this: Sit down on a calm day and fill in names for the first five jobs. Leave the harder ones for next time.
Fill it in on screen and save a PDF →
Goes with Chapter IV: Two kinds of fair · Is the setup working for everyone? · Do all your sheets in one place
What’s this?
On the full version and on the PDF, this sheet is called WP-03. It puts one of the site’s Five Pillars (the five big ideas everything here is built on) to work: fix the setup, not the person: a job that keeps slipping is a setup problem, not a character flaw.