A woman who splits household chores with her husband by using a strict colour-coded spreadsheet says clearly dividing the housework has improved their sex life. Tara Blair Ball, 38, decided to sit down and create a spreadsheet with her husband, Brian, 46, a marketing development manager, to assign tasks to each other after the birth of their youngest daughter in October 2020.
The couple had always had a verbal agreement regarding who did what around the house but wanted to be organised to make the chores more manageable for each of them. Now, they use a spreadsheet to split up the chores, to determine who is doing it, how often, and the standard it should be done to - and use different colours to illustrate whether it's something that needs to be done daily or weekly.
The couple has divvied up jobs such as food shopping, hoovering, taking the bins out, organising plans with friends and picking up the kids. They each do the jobs they prefer and say sitting down and going through everything they each do at the end of the week has made them more appreciative of each other, while Tara says the divide in labour has given the pair more energy to be intimate.
