"Up for grabs" should stay in ONE pool, that refreshes itself on schedule
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Elie Elhabr
I use recurring "Up for grabs" chores (for example, every Friday) as a weekly pool that any of my kids can claim. Right now, once a child claims a recurring "Up for grabs" chore, that child stays assigned to every future occurrence. It never goes back to the pool, and there is no way to switch an assigned chore back to "Up for grabs" for everyone.
The only workarounds are making a new one-time chore every week, or deleting and recreating the recurring chore. Both are manual work every single week, and that doesn't scale with several kids and several chores.
Request: add an option on recurring "Up for grabs" chores, something like "Reset to up for grabs each time," so each new occurrence starts unassigned and any child can claim it.
Why it matters:
-It keeps "Up for grabs" doing its job: kids compete for extra work and extra earnings.
-Parents don't have to touch it every week.
-Work stays shared instead of sticking with whoever claimed it first.
Also helpful: let a parent switch an assigned chore back to "Up for grabs."
Scott O'Connell
Agreed
Michael Roettger
I was just about to put this in as a feature request. Definitely need this. The behavior now is not logical.
Amanda Trumpower
This!!!!
Nathan Edwards
Yes! This is how up for grabs should work. It should be a recurring up for grabs where the kid claims the instance not the whole series of the chore.
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Brian Busch
This was the original intent when I requested it like 2 years ago. The implementation is awful. I told them the same feedback when they first implemented. They haven’t fixed it and they need to ASAP.
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Brandon King
Please! This is the most frustrating issue I have had with GL. Daily chores with 3 kids that are at different activities day to day makes it impossible for one kid to do the same chore every day. Please add an option to keep chores “up for grabs” each time it repeats!
Teddy James
My kids and I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to do this. Please make this feature available.