@Tennee said:

I will reiterate that when I die, I hope I go to Austria.

Good plan, but why not visit Austria while still alive?

@Middleman, a Disagree in the last days of the forum? Ouch, that hurts!

Cake without butter in the crust is not even thinkable for an Austrian. 
Hmmm let's see what I can do on my phone.

I went from: " Please do ... chore!" - "Have you already done... chore?"  - "You didn't do ... chore, so here's xyz consequence"

to

"Tomorrow afternoon we'll do ... chore".

And then all of us clean the windows or the loo, re-organize the kitchen, and I demonstrate that vacuuming a floor means all the way into every corner

It's a bit sad, actually, because my children are ... wait for it... 18 and 21. Yes, you read that correctly.
But somehow it never really worked for us if I just told them what to do or wrote lists. Yes, we have a chores schedule for every household member and it's about as useful and effective as agreements in the Middle East. Yes, I could have enforced consequences all the time and I could have taken away privileges and all that. But I didn't want to. I want less stress in my life, not more.

Since I do the bigger parts of home maintenance together with my children my blood pressure went from red to green again. We are a family and we clean as a family.  It's easier to demonstrate than to critisize and nag and it's far quicker and far, far more fun! We take turns to decide the playlist (because with music everything gets done easier, right?) and nothing motivates one better to scrub vigorously than Sabaton's To Hell And Back (which my son chose as I forced asked him to clean the toilet).

I wish I had already applied that method when they were younger; it would have spared me so much hassle. Nothing easier than saying "Tomorrow we'll tidy your room together".