ChartKidChores in a shared house without the passive-aggressive notes
Most roommate arguments about cleaning are really arguments about memory: who did the bathroom last, whether the bins went out. A chart on the kitchen wall settles that in a glance.
Agree the list first
Sit down once, for ten minutes, and agree what counts as a shared job and what doesn't. Dishes, surfaces, bins, recycling, the bathroom and the floors of shared rooms usually do. Bedrooms never do. Put only the agreed jobs on the chart; the moment it includes someone's private opinion of how often the oven needs cleaning, it stops being neutral.
Rotate weekly
Add every roommate's name and you get one page each. The simplest fair system is a rotation: everyone does the same list, but the chart stays on the wall for a month and names rotate through the pages each week. Or assign fixed jobs for a month at a time, so the person who hates the bathroom does bins and the floors instead, and swap next month.
Set a deadline, not a schedule
"By Sunday night" works better than "Wednesday". People have different weeks. The weekly layout with a Monday start matches most leases and most lives.
What about people who don't do it?
The chart makes it visible, which is most of the battle. For the rest, a house rule agreed in advance (the person who skips buys the next lot of shared supplies, say) beats a confrontation after the fact. Write it on the chart title line if it helps.
Print spares
Print four weeks at once and pin them in a stack. When the top one is full, it comes off. Nobody has to find the printer.