A relationship coach splits the chores with her husband using a colour-coded spreadsheet – and says dividing the housework has made their sex life better. 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 split up by the chores, who is doing it, how often and the standard it should be done to - and colour-code to illustrate whether it's something that needs to be done daily or weekly.
The couple have 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 has made them more appreciative of each other.
