What were your regular chores growing up? Did you get paid for them?

Saturday mornings I had to sweep and dust my room...and had to do it very well. Probably age 8-17. Had to make my bed everyday.

We didn't have a big house but I had to sweep the carpet of the entire house at least 3x a week.

About age 13 until I moved out I was in charge of push mowing the yard.

Once I got to jr high I think they gave me $10 or $15 every Saturday to go out on.

...when I was old enough, I had to cut grass, rake leaves, clean gutters

Growing up on a farm...
Keep my room clean, help with dishes, help out in the barn, gather the eggs, keep my horse clean and curried down, help bring in and lay up the hay, help with laundry and also help cut the grass.

When old enough:

Yardwork
Dishes
Shoveing snow
Keeping room clean

Besides that, just helping parents. Grocery store runs, picking sister up places, etc.

Got paid in allowance. So I guess, yeah.

I didn't have any specific chores that I had to do X amount of times per week or anything. If my parents wanted us to do something, they told us and we did it. Vacuuming, dusting, mopping the kitchen, dishes (we didn't have a dishwasher most of my childhood), cleaning bathrooms, etc. I mowed the lawn once, but when my stepdad saw how bad I was at it, he never asked me to again, lol.

I started doing my own laundry in 6th grade, so that was definitely a regular thing for me.

Oh and I never got paid, but I didn't have a job until I graduated high school. So they did give me money for gas, trips to the movies, etc.

I didn't get paid for any chores, and was mostly just told to do something. My dad made me make my bed with hospital corners, which drove me nuts. The main weekly chore assigned to me was cutting the grass once I turned 8 years old.

Grew up on an old farm which the house was not lived in for many years when my folks bought it. All the normal outdoor cutting, trimming, cleaning stuff. In the old farm house we tore down plaster walls with hammers and sledge hammers, sanded off a centuries worth of varnish on the wooden floors, helped run electrical wire through the attic when the roof was raised, dry wall, painting, hauled no idea how many cords of wood during the winter months.

My job back then was working on a real farm which included everything from loading veal calves in trailers (worst job ever) to driving a Farm-All through fields and picking up rocks, bailing hay/straw, to picking off ground hogs with a .22lr.

I had an allowance til I got my first job in 8th grade. I have no idea what my parents gave my brother or I as far as an allowance. We were responsible for dusting our rooms, mowing the lawn(which I mostly did because I loved doing it), vacuuming the basement and sometimes our rooms. When we hit middle school, we had to clean our bathroom and mom started teaching us how to do laundry and what not.

I never did get paid for chores. Once I was old enough to help I would mow, feed the animals, help with the garden, weed eat, clean barns, bale hay/straw, milk cows, and help cut and stack wood. Once I turned 15 I worked on a dairy farm all the way through school while keeping up with stuff around the house. Milk before school and after and only time I didnt do that, was if I had practice. I never really did any house stuff like make my bed or dishes. My room was small so it was never a mess. I still hardly make my bed. I wish that was something that was pushed on me as a kid.

like_that;1840346 wrote:I didn't get paid for any chores, and was mostly just told to do something. My dad made me make my bed with hospital corners, which drove me nuts. The main weekly chore assigned to me was cutting the grass once I turned 8 years old.

That's pretty damn young to mow.

Ironman92;1840371 wrote:That's pretty damn young to mow.

Supervised for the firs year and took it full on the following years. I have a summer bday so kinda 8-9 years old.

Did a lot of chores. All unpaid.

I grew up on a small farm. I had animals and I got an allowance to feed them when I was younger. That seems strange to me now since I'm the one who wanted them. Although I did have to use my allowance to buy feed so it did teach me to budget a little. Once I got a job at 15 I think they stopped giving me an allowance.

mcburg93;1840365 wrote:I still hardly make my bed. I wish that was something that was pushed on me as a kid.

Making a bed is so overrated. I'm just going to sleep in it again. What's the point?

salto;1840349 wrote:picking off ground hogs with a .22lr.

I would do that for free!

As far back as I can remember my bed was made every day, vacuumed every other day and dish every evening after dinner. Grandparents farmed, I did everything from egg gathering, milking cows, feed the pigs, bailing hay and straighting out old penny nails with a hammer so grandpa could build a barn, learned to cook, do laundry, pluck chickens at the age of 9 to help my mom. Once I learned to drive 9 / 10 grandpa trusted me I was out in the fields plowing, mowing, seeding... All most every day I would doing something on that tractor. Chores never end they just change with age.

having to live at time with other relatives .. It was just my expectation that I had to work to stay and be excepted.... I liked living with my grandparents the work was hard, at times long and never ending but the alternative was worse.

Had to vacuum the whole house 3x a week, mop the kitchen 2x a week, dishes nightly, clean my room, carry in the groceries, feed the cats, and water the plants. I was paid.

Pushed mowed 2 acres, shoveled pig shit, cleaned everything under the sun. No money involved

I was relatively spoiled. I'd set the table for dinner and mow the lawn each week in the summer, that was about it. In return, I made sure I was low-maintenance for my parents.

We had one chore per day for the five weekdays. Cleaned the bathrooms on Monday and Wednesday. Dusted the house on Tuesday and Thursday. Vacuumed the house on Friday.

And no. We did not get paid. However, there were occasionally other tasks that we could do in exchange for being paid.

make bed, some house cleaning, mow lawn, rake and burn leaves, shovel snow. allowance of a couple bucks a week, until 8th grade then started working 20-30 hours a week in family store.

Regular household chores. Set the table, do dishes, mow the lawn, burn trash, etc. Dad owned a car lot. I washed every car on the lot twice a week. Also did small repairs. I could completely change the interior of Chevy Chevette in a about 45 minutes.
Payment was 3 hots and a cot.

isadore;1840904 wrote:make bed, some house cleaning, mow lawn, rake and burn leaves, shovel snow. allowance of a couple bucks a week, until 8th grade then started working 20-30 hours a week in family store.

was it a unit labor worker store or was your parents against units? is this where your parents figure that dirt word "profit merge" "capitalism" and the idea of personal and business wealth. What the hell happen to you ....?
You lost the dream of a great America....

I don't mind cutting the grass at my house now but back then it sucked. Probably because it took about three hours once a week.

Belly35;1840995 wrote:was it a unit labor worker store or was your parents against units? is this where your parents figure that dirt word "profit merge" "capitalism" and the idea of personal and business wealth. What the hell happen to you ....?
You lost the dream of a great America....

gosh a ruddies, my father was a factory worker. After a life time of work for a corporation, he and others like him were abused and robbed of their promised pensions. Corporate capitalism in action.

Belly35;1840995 wrote:was it a unit labor worker store or was your parents against units? is this where your parents figure that dirt word "profit merge" "capitalism" and the idea of personal and business wealth. What the hell happen to you ....?
You lost the dream of a great America....

Haha reps.