Re: Childhood Chores

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

Saw your "name" this morning and some posters welcoming you back ! Add my name to the list please !!!

Where ever you've been, it is good to "see" you again. In the past when ever I saw your nickname, I always had to smile.

New chapter now....

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

conlt · ‎03-16-2010

We had a family of 7 and my mother hung all of the clothes outside to dry. I did not like having to go out and "pick the clothes". Oh boy, I had to go down stairs into he cellar, then out the back door, pick the cloths, fold into a basket and bring them back up the stairs. The stairs were also at the other end of the house, so it was a long walk to the stairs with that heavy, overflowing basket of clothes. It was worse in the winter when the clothes were frozen. The jeans were stiff and frozen. I grew up in Massachusetts, lots of hills and cold, stairs. LOL

Spoiler

KBEANS · ‎06-08-2020

My mom started working and so she would have my sister and I pick my little brother up from school and "start" dinner.

What a gimmick "start" dinner. There was no such thing as just starting dinner because once you start it you follow through to the end! 😆 I'm a good cook today because of this.

We also did the laundry. So annoying ! It's not the laundry itself, it's was because we used to have to take it out to a laundromat, which was about 2 blocks away...until we moved to an apartment building that had a laundry room in it.

I hate doing laundry today. And although I hate it, I am so fanatical about it, that I don't let any family members pitch in because it has to be washed and folded to my standards, and only I can live up to them. 😆 Lucky family!

I still have to take it down to the laundry room in my building.

I'm convinced if I had the luxury of having my own washer and dryer;

(it is not allowed in my building to have one in your apartment)

I'd never have dirty clothes because I'd do it t once or twice a day!

Kalli · ‎03-11-2010

@occasionalrain wrote:
@jellyBEAN
My parents prioritized privacy. My bedroom was my business, they never entered it and I never entered theirs without knocking.

@occasionalrain,
My parents felt the same way. If we wanted our bedrooms clean we had to do it ourselves but if we didn't prioritize that, it was ok.

Our bedrooms were kinda our sanctuaries. With 6 kids and 4 bedrooms, none of us had our own bedroom but thankfully it was easy since there were 4 boys and only two girls, so two to a bedroom and my parents had the largest one with the connected bathroom. And we also never entered our parents' bedroom without knocking first.

A few weeks ago my siblings and I were reminiscing about one of the houses we lived in back in NJ. Mom and Dad bought it for $24,000 back in the 50s. I checked it out on Zillow and the last time it was sold the price was almost $900,000! Yikes! It was a cool house. We had so much fun there! Good memories.

candyagain · ‎04-11-2010

Dishes

Cleaning the bathroom

Cleaning my room

Babysitting my four younger siblings

Military family.

SurferWife · ‎12-12-2010

I don't really remember having chores. I do remember folding a load of laundry while mama cooked supper, but my brother & I never really had assigned chores. We always kept our bedrooms spotless. That is just how we were raised. Even as teens we didn't have clothes laying on the floor and stuff like that. We were clean and I never minded folding clothes when mama cooked dinner. To this day I enjoy doing laundry. It's such an accomplishment!

Time is just a drop in the bucket compared to eternity. It isn’t how long you live that matters; it is how well you are prepared to die. ~~Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr.

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

Parents can't expect their children to grow up respecting other's privacy if they don't respect theirs.

Our toys, clothing were ours to share or not share, our decision.

We learned compassion and empathy from having pets.

sabatini · ‎06-29-2015

As usual, I'm late to the party, as I just now read through this thread.

Add me to the list of posters who were pleasantly surprised to see @chickenbutt!

CB, I'm sorry to hear about your challenges, but am also glad & relieved that you're still around.

I still use your steak rub recipe!

Muddling through...

beach-mom · ‎03-09-2010

We lived on a small hill. and my dad covered the one side with ivy and other vines. It was beautiful, but it had to be cleaned out regularly, almost weekly.

Guess whose job that was?