Ironman92
Posts: 49,363
Mar 8, 2017 2:50pm
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.
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.
4cards
Posts: 2,551
Mar 8, 2017 2:54pm
...when I was old enough, I had to cut grass, rake leaves, clean gutters
CenterBHSFan
Posts: 6,115
Mar 8, 2017 2:57pm
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.
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.
Laley23
Posts: 29,506
Mar 8, 2017 3:00pm
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.
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.
Fab4Runner
Posts: 6,196
Mar 8, 2017 3:03pm
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 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.
like_that
Posts: 26,625
Mar 8, 2017 3:36pm
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.
salto
Posts: 2,611
Mar 8, 2017 3:41pm
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.
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.
wildcats20
Posts: 27,794
Mar 8, 2017 3:43pm
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.
mcburg93
Posts: 3,167
Mar 8, 2017 4:31pm
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.
Ironman92
Posts: 49,363
Mar 8, 2017 4:53pm
That's pretty damn young to mow.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.
like_that
Posts: 26,625
Mar 8, 2017 4:56pm
Supervised for the firs year and took it full on the following years. I have a summer bday so kinda 8-9 years old.Ironman92;1840371 wrote:That's pretty damn young to mow.
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Mar 8, 2017 4:59pm
Did a lot of chores. All unpaid.
FatHobbit
Posts: 8,651
Mar 8, 2017 5:08pm
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.
FatHobbit
Posts: 8,651
Mar 8, 2017 5:12pm
Making a bed is so overrated. I'm just going to sleep in it again. What's the point?mcburg93;1840365 wrote:I still hardly make my bed. I wish that was something that was pushed on me as a kid.
I would do that for free!salto;1840349 wrote:picking off ground hogs with a .22lr.
Belly35
Posts: 9,716
Mar 8, 2017 7:44pm
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.
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.
Commander of Awesome
Posts: 23,151
Mar 8, 2017 8:04pm
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.
Spock
Posts: 2,853
Mar 8, 2017 9:47pm
Pushed mowed 2 acres, shoveled pig shit, cleaned everything under the sun. No money involved
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Zunardo
Posts: 370
Mar 9, 2017 1:50pm
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.
O-Trap
Posts: 14,994
Mar 10, 2017 6:28pm
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.
And no. We did not get paid. However, there were occasionally other tasks that we could do in exchange for being paid.
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isadore
Posts: 7,762
Mar 10, 2017 6:38pm
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.
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superman
Posts: 3,582
Mar 10, 2017 7:49pm
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.
Payment was 3 hots and a cot.
Belly35
Posts: 9,716
Mar 11, 2017 11:23am
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 ....?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.
You lost the dream of a great America....
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friendfromlowry
Posts: 6,239
Mar 11, 2017 12:09pm
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.
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isadore
Posts: 7,762
Mar 11, 2017 12:17pm
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....
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superman
Posts: 3,582
Mar 11, 2017 12:58pm
Haha reps.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....