There is a category of work that runs your household that has no name, no schedule, and no end. The school emails, the forms, the bills, the portal messages, the permission slips, the returns, the appointments. It just keeps coming, and most of us have been quietly handling it in stolen pockets of time all week long, every week, without anyone noticing and without it ever actually feeling done.
I want to introduce you to a system that changed everything for me: Household COO Time.
What household COO time actually is
COO stands for Chief Operating Officer, the person in an organization who keeps all the behind-the-scenes operations running smoothly. If you are the default parent or primary caregiver in your home, congratulations, you are already doing this job. You just haven't been giving it a dedicated time slot.
Household COO time is a single batched block of time, usually on the weekend, but whatever works best for you, where you handle all of it at once instead of letting it interrupt your entire week.
What goes in it
School communications, physician portal messages, bills that aren't on autopay, forms to fill out, paperwork to scan and file, online orders to place, errands to run. If it is household-related and it does not have a hard deadline before the weekend, it waits. All of it goes into one of three holding spots: a physical inbox for paper, a dedicated email folder, and your planner for tasks that aren't tied to paper or email.
That's it. It piles up all week, and you deal with it once.
Why batching actually works
Handling the same category of tasks in one focused block is always faster than jumping in and out of it all week. Think about it the same way you think about laundry. You would never run the washing machine for a single sock. You wait until there's a full load because that's just more efficient, and this is exactly the same concept.
Beyond the efficiency, there's something that happens to your stress levels when things have a place to go. The loop isn't open anymore. The paperwork came in, it went in the bin, and it will get handled during your dedicated time block. Your brain can let it go.
The part most people skip
Make it visible. Put your household COO block on the family calendar and talk about it out loud. When a request comes in, say "I'll handle that during household COO time this weekend" instead of quietly squeezing it in.
Invisible work stays invisible until you decide to name it. And when your family can see the scope of what you're managing, the conversation about sharing that load becomes a lot more natural.
Give it one full week and notice what happens to your evenings.
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You had a plan. Then life happened, and suddenly everything you mapped out for the week felt completely out of reach.
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If your week falls apart more often than you'd like to admit, this video shows you exactly how to handle it without losing your mind.
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How to Schedule Household Chores Against Everything Else
You've got a lot of household things to do, and you're trying to figure out how to schedule them against everything else on your list.
In this week's Weekly Buzz, I'm breaking down why the category of task is actually irrelevant and what really matters instead, how to prioritize when you have more to do than can fit into your week, and when household chores should move up or down based on what's actually urgent.
But if you live with other people and you're constantly struggling to get all the household stuff done, that's a sign you're owning responsibility that's too much for one person. You'll learn how to have the conversation that shifts ownership (not delegation) and stop being the only one thinking about and doing everything.
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Friend, don’t forget—just 15 minutes of planning today can set the tone for your entire week. You’ve got the tools, you’ve got the tips, and now it’s time to take action. Let’s crush this week together!
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