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The household paperwork
4 rows. A group is the level between a category and a task: one thing a person could hand over whole, split into the rows it actually takes. The app shows groups collapsed and lets you answer at either level.
| Task | How often | Minutes | Takes out of you | Sits in your mind | Breaks your day | The doing | The carrying |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open the mail, work out what needs doing, and file it | twice a week | 7 | barely notice it | sits with you | mostly flexible | 0.25 | 0.98 |
| why Merged from separate 'open the post' and 'filing' rows. Sequential, and in every household observed to be the same person; two rows double-counted the carry. | |||||||
| Track expiration dates and renew passports, ID cards and permits | twice a year | 90 | a little | never leaves your head | breaks the day | 0.07 | 1.04 |
| why Merged from separate passport and permit rows — one expiry-date watch, not two. Vigilance 5 per the hard-deadline rule: expiry is discovered at the worst moment and the renewal window is measured against a booked trip. | |||||||
| Keep life insurance, wills and beneficiaries up to date | once a year | 90 | a little | on your mind | fits anywhere | 0.03 | 0.73 |
| why Merged from separate life-and-liability and wills rows. Both are the same annual sit-down about what happens if something happens. | |||||||
| Find the document somebody urgently needs | once a month | 15 | a little | sits with you | breaks the day | 0.07 | 0.56 |
Which households get these
A new household is seeded from its own answers, so most of these rows only appear where they apply.
- Find the document somebody urgently needs — not seeded into a new household — found by searching
- Track expiration dates and renew passports, ID cards and permits — counted more often in households with 1 or more children
Something missing, or something weighted wrong?
This is the part of Champignon that is genuinely unfinished, and the part a person outside this household can fix. Two routes, neither of which needs an account:
- Something we don't have — a task you do that isn't listed here.
- A weight that looks wrong — tell us which row, and what it should sit above or below. A comparison is actionable; feels wrong on its own isn't.
What happens next, and how a weight actually changes, is on Contribute.