Community Chat

[haddon9]

I can remember before 1965 (when we moved to a new house) we were living in a small house In Queens, NY.  I had to wash & dry the dishes since we didn't have a dishwasher then.  I was in the third grade.

I also had to make my bed everyday, dust furniture and clean my room. When it snowed I had to help shovel.  

[LIndaMJ]

Keeping my room neat and clean and ironing, which was frequent with 4 females' clothing,- my mother's, 2 sister's and of course my own. 

[shoptilyadropagain]

Washing and/or Drying Dishes...I couldn't understand why we didn't have a dishwasher.  We moved during my freshman year of college and we still didn't have a dishwasher.  When I asked, the answer I received was that my parents didn't want to give up any cabinet/storage space.

To this day, I still don't have a dishwasher (besides me).  Ayi yi yi

[Estellee]

Makin my bed,  and drying dishes. I did get an allowance too. Oh, dusting too!

[Junebug54]

I hated dusting too.  still do so now I have a housekeeper!

[makeup bestie]

Putting milking machines together, starting dinner (my mother finished after helping my father milk the cows, since my brothers were in college).  Pulling yellow rocket weeds and picking up rocks n the fileds before planting.  

[foxywoods]

My mother was a fanatic about house cleaning and she did most of it herself. Because we kids did not do it as well as her. She was a perfectionist.

I could not make my bed to her satisfaction  because the bottom sheets had to have hospital corners and my bed never perfect enough for her.

When I was in HS, I learned to cook in Home Ec, because she never gave us a chance to prepare meals other than peel potatoes or carrots. The only food she allowed me to cook was Rice A Roni.

I washed the dishes every night as a teen. 

[geezerette]

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@makeup bestie wrote:

Putting milking machines together, starting dinner (my mother finished after helping my father milk the cows, since my brothers were in college).  Pulling yellow rocket weeds and picking up rocks n the fileds before planting.  

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@makeup bestie 

That was the punishment my husband chose for the kids when they got into trouble.  They hated that more than being grounded!

[catter70]

We had wrought iron railing that would rust and my sister and I had to sand the rust off so it could be repainted. I didn't like any chores, though we did get allowance.

[rms1954]

All of them, clearing the table, washing dishes, doing laundry, ironing,cleaning the bathroom, dusting, vacuuming, but the worst was washing the panelled walls.  There were four of us girls but i had to do it all since I was the oldest (and my mother hated me.)  Then when I was done I had to watch the two youngest kids outside.