Clean as You Go

• This is perhaps the fairest method of dividing up cleaning chores between your husband and yourself. Instead of cleaning your home once a week or whenever the dust seems to be piling up, take responsibility for your own messes and pick up after yourselves. For example, if you have a snack after lunch, wash your own dishes instead of letting them pile up in the sink. Or, if your husband has some friends over to watch the game, ask him to clean the living room when they're done. The more you pick up after yourself throughout each day, the less cleaning you'll have to do at the end of the week.
  
  

Divvy up the Chores

• Make a list of chores and assign them, half to one of you, half to the other. For example, appoint yourself to clean the master bathroom, dining room, office and spare bedroom, and make your husband responsible for cleaning the kitchen, living room, guest bathroom, master bedroom and garage. Every few weeks, switch the chores and rooms you're responsible for cleaning.
  
  

Chores in a Hat

• Instead of arguing over who should clean what, write down an even-numbered list of chores that need to be done on little pieces of scrap paper, fold them up and put them into a hat or a bowl. Include chores such as doing dishes, folding laundry, changing the cat litter, cleaning windows, vacuuming and changing bed sheets. Stir the chores around to mix them up, then alternate picking out a piece of paper each until the hat is empty. The chores that you picked out from the hat are what you will be responsible for completing during the upcoming week.
  
  

Do What You Do Best

• If there is a particular chore that you actually enjoy doing or are realistically just better at completing than your partner, focus on doing that chore versus another chore that your partner does better. Maybe you prefer to organize your home office space and fold laundry, while your partner enjoys cleaning the kitchen after dinner and running the dishwasher. If you do chores you don't mind, you'll be more likely to get them out of the way quickly rather than avoiding them for as long as possible.