Household chores are something that is usually split between the partners. This ensures that the tasks get done and both can do their share when keeping the home clean. Naturally, there are two ways of doing this, the easy way and the hard way. This article describes the mistakes you can do when living with someone else and not taking care of your tasks when cleaning your home.

Don't clean with your partner

You just let your partner to do the cleaning and dont offer any help. This causes your partner of being a slave, who has to do all the tasks without any help. You want to avoid this kind of situation and split the tasks together. By this ways you can pretty much avoid the fights over keeping your home clean and can actually accomplish the cleaning of your home faster, since both of you can participate to those tasks.

Complain about the general messiness and do nothing about it

Don't complain about the messiness of your home if you are not willing to do anything about it. This is especially true if you are responsible of the mess and you let someone else to clean it for you. For example, if I know that I have been messy I will take care of it as soon as I can. This will avoid the discussion of who is responsible of cleaning that mess. Also, you should help cleaning the mess even if it's not something you have done. It's one of those little things that your partner appreciates.

Don't do the heavy tasks togetherCleaning is very physical and demanding and sometimes your partner may need some help. Make sure that you are offering it if he or she asks for it. For example, helping with some heavier cleaning stuff is something I do automatically and without any asking, since my partner may not be able to do it herself.