Can we talk about how writing stuff down beat just asking my roommate to remember

David Hayes · 2026-10-17T17:05:04.610159+00:00

My roommate kept "forgetting" to take out the trash, so instead of another talk I put a small dry erase board on the fridge in our Austin place with his name and the chore for each week. Two weeks in, he's done it every time, mostly because he can't stand seeing his own name next to an unchecked box. Has anyone else had luck with a written system over just talking it out?

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