Ideas for Holiday chore rota please

[rookietherednosedreindeer]

We are going to share a rental in the UK with SIL and family next Easter.

We did the same this year and whilst I enjoy SILs family company and DH loves spending time with his family SIL and I ended up doing all the work as their adult and teenage children did very little. Plus they have a large family - 2 adults, 2 grown up sons and 2 teenagers, plus potentially a girlfriend. We have only one DS age 7

I have spoken to SIL and she agreed that a rota for chores would be a good idea. Any ideas what should be put on it and should DS be included? To be honest I'd just be happy if people cleaned up after themselves - DS and I would be greeted by empty cans/bottles and crisp packets in the morning, and also cleared up after themselves after meals/emptied the dishwasher occasionally. Anything more would be a bonus.

Our family tend to eat out a bit more than theirs so we'd need a bit of flexibility around meals.

So anyone have any good chore rotas that work on shared holidays?

We take it in turns to cook, each family does every other night. This includes shopping for the meal and clearing up after. I can't think of any other chores there would be on holiday?

Thanks giveme - there should be very little to do, but people don't seem to clean up after themselves.

Also SILs family tends to eat each meal in so it's not just dinner, also lunch and then some people fancy a cooked breakfast but don't seem capable of tidying it away.

Maybe we need house rules as well as a rota.

Yep it isn't a rota you need it's a rule that all clean up after yourselves, or book separate accommodation next door to eachother

Funnily enough we used to go to a place where we could hire cottages beside each other. That worked a lot better for me . But everyone else wants to be together and DS really enjoys sleeping in the same room as his cousin .

So maybe we do one sort of rota for the cooking and clean up then insist that everyone clears up after themselves .

rookie remember that the men of the species can also tidy up after themselves instead of leaving it to you and SIL .

DH stepped up to the plate admirably when I expressed my displeasure glammanana.

However it's a dynamics thing with SIL's family , she seems to be happy enough to clean up her adult children's debris and don't get me started on BIL's lack of input, tbh he is the most annoying as he is a fully fledged adult and should know better.

I don't want to cause ructions in their family, I just want to only do my fair share and no more, but I don't feel comfortable putting my foot down and telling them to tidy up - luckily DH did this in the last couple of days so they did get a bit better. Also I think the timings don't help - the teenagers/ young adults tend to leave their rubbish late at night whereas I'm first up with DS in the morning. On the last few days I just left all their empty cans/bottles/crisp bags in the living room - then SIL would clean them when she got up. I guess I just need to develop more of a thick skin - if SIL is happy to pick up all her adult children and spouses rubbish then I should just leave her to it, but she is such a lovely person that I feel guilty leaving it to her.