Fairness and housework may not be best handled as an enumeration problem. I know a family (two adults, one child) which started by listing the necessary housework, and then each listing which things they liked doing, which they disliked, and which they were neutral about, and came to a low-stress agreement.
Admittedly, this takes good will, honesty, and no one in the group who’s too compulsive about doing or not doing housework.
Fairness and housework may not be best handled as an enumeration problem. I know a family (two adults, one child) which started by listing the necessary housework, and then each listing which things they liked doing, which they disliked, and which they were neutral about, and came to a low-stress agreement.
Admittedly, this takes good will, honesty, and no one in the group who’s too compulsive about doing or not doing housework.
Steven Brams has devised some fair division algorithms that don’t require good will: see his surplus procedure ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_procedure ) and his earlier adjusted winner procedure ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted_Winner_procedure ).