Daily living can really get on top of you if you let life drift.I have to make choices throughout my day about unconscious or insignificant behaviours. Let me give you 2 examples.

Unconscious behaviour:
How do you brush your teeth? Any description you give most likely be very incomplete. The truth is it doesn't matter to you, so you don't store it in memory like a deliberate action is stored. You can however, recall it precisely by doing it. This is typical shopping behaviour and you tend to only think about it when you have to make an unfamiliar choice .

I am more interested in another behaviour I have recently noticed. I don't know if there is a name or category for such behaviours but lets call them low reward impulses.

Low Reward Impulses :
When you notice the picture in the hallway is slightly skew do you quickly adjust it? Or lets try another, you notice the pot plant in the kitchen is wilting because it's dry. Do you quickly add the remaining water in your glass before continuing?

Each situation requires a decision. The observation triggers a thought which raises a question. To do something about it or not. Well we tend to quickly do it and move on.
Hence the name, low reward impulses, as the reward is not a sensory reward like a chocolate impulse. The reward is cognitive, you don't have to remember to do it later and you only feel mental satisfaction immediately afterwards.

Another typical example, but with the incentive that pain will result from not doing it, is ordering a new cheque book or not cleaning the oil patch on the kitchen floor. These have negative consequences and the end result can be the same for both types.

In the end...
Now how would you deal with your day if the low reward impulses were not done and were stacked up in your mind "to do later "? This is a form of stress and you feel like you aren't coping.

My situation is no different. Running a house is full of these LRIs. The difference occurs in the fact that I have to ask someone to do it. So each situation triggers off a set of decisions,
How important is this?
Can it wait?
Are they too busy?
Can they do it?
Will I tire them?
If they do this will they mind doing the other "standard" things?

So you decide to not ask and instead try to remember it later, the result is later ends up as a long list.