What was your least favorite chore when you were a child?

[Spinneret]

cleaning after lunch

 

[Lumpy1106]

My kids could never fathom this, but when I was a kid we'd go out into the woods during the heat of the summer and cut fire wood off of the slash piles the lumber companies left behind. We paid $5/cord for the permit, then load up the Subaru, towing a utility trailer my Dad built. It would take all weekend to get a cord of wood, then we'd go back out the next weekend and do it again. Some days would go better than others, but over about 4 weekends we'd have enough fuel wood for the winter. We'd have to cut, chop and stack the wood once we got home, and we'd need to continually bring it into the house through the winter so we'd have enough dry wood to build a fire in the stove every morning, and yes, as the first up, I did that practically every morning. I thought that was pretty normal and everyone did it until I got to college. Nope, just us. We didn't get an allowance either - just expected to do it.

It was hot, dirty, and sometimes really frustrating, and yet, that is one of the things I do miss about growing up where we did.

PS - just remembered - once we were all off to college and my Dad didn't have the free labor he bought a self-feeding pellet stove. A truck would deliver bags of pellets. Dump them in the hopper, get a little fire going with some lighter fluid - instant heat, done.

 

[tvguy]

I don't recall having chores. If my parents asked me to do something, I did it. Don't remember anything being a least favorite. I actually liked cutting the lawn, my dad bought a second mower for me to use. We had a 1/2 lot all lawn, so he did the front and I did the back but after my dad passed away my mom hired a gardener as she didn't want me to have to deal with that anymore.

 

[tasha99]

Baking four loaves of bread a couple times a month and cooking dinner once a week

 

[TippyThomas]

All of them.

 

[DVCjj]

Cleaning.
Even now,

 

[luvnwdwgal]

We didn’t have many chores. My mom was a housewife and cleaned everyday. She did make my sister and I help with spring cleaning though by washing all the knick knacks in the house and believe me there were a ton of them.

 

[tasha99]

Baking four loaves of bread a couple times a month and cooking dinner once a week

I missed the least part. Those were my favorites. Least favorite was bathroom cleaning. Yuck.

 

[darnheather]

Washing dishes (no dishwasher) and picking up cow pats for the roses.

 

[BrianL]

Mowing the lawn - oh, how I hated doing that. Still do.

 

[ronandannette]

I grew up on a farm and my DMom spent most of her time working outdoors. From a pretty young age, I was expected to help out with most of the housework; making meals, cleaning and family laundry and ironing. They weren't chores like some know them, as in "here's your chore-list". It was more of an expectation that when the floor needed sweeping or the bathroom needed to be scrubbed, I was on it, and supper was to be served at 6:00. I wasn't outdoorsy and didn't love being at the barns or in the garden but I didn't mind cooking and cleaning (still don't to this day). I wasn't a slave; I went to school, played, watched TV and had hobbies, but like all kids raised in my circumstances, when there was work to be done, we did it. Of all the regular jobs in the rotation, the only once I actively disliked was doing the dishes.

 

[holden]

Pulling weeds. Still hate it.

 

[RangerPooh]

Picking up dog poop. Still hate it!

 

[jimmymc]

Cleaning out the basement was the worst. Usually two or three times every summer, we would look through everything down there, decide what to keep or toss, and reorganize it.

 

[mumto3girls]

Weeding. We had 2 large vegetable gardens and my parents thought an hour of weeding each day in the summer was fair. Destested that chore. Always sweating and being bit by sweat bees.