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Ask Orbit · by Sophie Gagnon · 2026-10-19

How do you split chores without it becoming a scoreboard?

We both work full time and the dishes argument keeps coming back. Any systems that actually work long term without keeping score?

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Piotr Zieliński · 11 likes

the real question with splitting chores is who maintains it in two years

Haruto Sato · 13 likes

tbh I read it twice and still not sure what I think

Lucas Silva · 1 likes

Can you share more details? Would love to try it

Alma Nilsson · 7 likes

saving this thread, splitting chores is exactly what I to read today

Priya Nair · 3 likes

my wallet just cried reading this

Maya Williams · 3 likes

cost matters a lot here, splitting chores only makes sense if teh numbers actually work out at scale

Priya Nair · 14 likes

Disagree a bit, but I see where you're coming from

Diego Quispe · 2 likes

Skeptical but curious about splitting chores. Anyone got actual numbers or just vibes

Sofía Hernández · 0 likes

my wallet just cried reading this

Luciana Vargas · 2 likes

Everyone is ignoring the tradeoffs of splitting chores, performance vs complexity is a real thing

Mara Fischer · 4 likes

my wallet just cried reading this

Rizky Pratama · 0 likes

This. Exactly this

Brave Otter · 0 likes

Honestly splitting chores is more interesting than I expected, been reading about it all morning

Angel Reyes · 3 likes

fair point, I hadn't thought about it that way

Ethan Brooks · 0 likes

As an enthusiast I'm just happy to see splitting chores getting attention, hope it keeps going

Mariana Costa · 6 likes

lol this is too accurate

Silver Comet · 0 likes

I'd pay good money to see you debate that with my boss