What chore did you hate the most when you were a child ?

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We had lots of chores to do as kids... we had all the housework too do as well as working outside the home at jobs from age 12 and then school as well.

I grew up in and out of foster homes as well as living with my parents, and everywhere I lived there was chores to be done by the kids..

My favourite would probably be when every few months my mother would polish the lino on her hands and knees with lavender polish then tie rags to our feet and we'd skate around the livingroom and very long hallway to buff up the floor till it shone... ( ironically I detest the smell of lavender now)

My most hated chore was washing dishes...not because washing dishes is so terrible but I've always hated routine even from being tiny , and it was my job to wash them every single night ..for 6 people, that's a lot of dishes for a little kid .. I did this from the age of 7 years old until I left home with occasional help from one of my younger siblings and gaps in between for the periods I was in foster homes..( although there was different chores there ) ... but anyway.. dishes is my answer.. what was your most hated chore as a child ?
 

hollydolly said:
My most hated chore was washing dishes
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Me too, I finally got out of the washing dishes chore by losing my temper and turning the faucet sprayer on my siblings. After that I was in charge of doing all the laundry instead, which was much preferable to me.
I know what my mom's most hated chore was as a kid because she was still complaining about it in her 80s, ha ha. She had to butcher their chickens. And I had a coworker decades ago that complained that when he was a kid he had to kill the pigs.
 
Like Holly, I liked polishing the newly waxed floor with rags tied to my feet. I also hated doing dishes. Often, I would sneak out of the house undetected, so my older sister had to do them all. It wasn't fair, of course .. but I was never punished for it. We had to dust & polish our own bedroom and the wooden bannisters on the main floor of our rooming house.
 

Dusting. I still hate dusting, and The Hovel looks like it. I dusted...um...a while back. Gonna do it again soon, maybe even before Christmas. JFTR, I do use a long-handled duster to dust where the walls meet the ceiling, to keep the ceiling fan blades clean, and to dust the baseboards so I'm not a totally hopeless case.

Keep in mind that I used to be a cleaning fairy. I didn't like dusting other people's houses, either, but I did it because clients paid me to do it. I don't get paid to dust my own place.
 
I really had no chores to speak of. I did dry the dishes after dinner and as a teen I cleaned my own room.
I loved to rake leaves and shovel snow but I wasn't asked to do it.
Working in the garden and helping my dad with yard work was another favorite. Anything to be with him gave me great pleasure. I loved him so much.
 
I don't recall not liking any chores I did. I just did them. The only thing that stands out is when we were young and would go into the meadows and fields with my mom in the spring time to dig the dandelion weeds to boil later (ate with olive oil and lemon). This was a Greek tradition. Whatever we didn't eat got frozen. I dreaded it because of the big juicy worms that would pop out unexpectedly from the ground, and I'd jump back feeling frightened. :) Even now, when I'm gardening, I recoil when I see worms.
 
Washing floors. My mother insisted they be done on hands and knees. If that was the only way to do them, I'd never clean my floors again because I refuse to do so. I'll use a mop.

Not huge on dusting either and I'm still waiting for the genius to invent the silent vacuum that doesn't scare the cats.
 
We had a number of big Pecan trees on our property in Florida and when it was time for them to fall, my job was to pick them up and put them in paper sacks.

My mom would put them out with a sign that said, " Pecans $1.00 ".

I did the work, I'd stand by the road, take the money, but the money was handed over to Mom.
Wasn't like we needed the money from the sale.
Just never understood her thinking.

It's like she didn't trust me or something...;)
 

What chore did you hate the most when you were a child?​


Pretty much any
Had lots with which to hate


hollydolly said:
dishes is my answer.. what was your most hated chore as a child ?
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Yeah, that's right up there

Feelslikefar said:
We had a number of big Pecan trees on our property in Florida and when it was time for them to fall, my job was to pick them up and put them in paper sacks.
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We had walnut trees
The neighbor plowed his walnut orchard, then laid out tarps
Not us
I fished out ours, all gooey with rotting skins, outa the weeds
Then pulled all the skins off
Then racked 'em on framed screens to lay in the sun
Money, for me?....You gotta be kiddin'

Never so happy to have the Columbus Day storm blow thru and wipe out half our orchard

Hoeing acres of strawberries is right up there too
 
Me and my sister only had a few chores. We had to wash the dishes. We would argue every night about who would wash and who would dry and put them away. Since she was taller than me I had to wash. Then my Dad bought a dishwasher. We lived in the city so we also had to scrub the front steps. My sister told my mother I would do a better job than her, so my Mom believed her, and I did the steps. Then when I was 7yrs old my brother got out of the army and he moved in with us with his wife and baby then I got the Name Auntie Barbara will do it. Meaning I would take care of the baby.
 
Pulling weeds for my father. As with Pokémon, he seemed to have to get them all! Beyond chores were expectations, such as being expected to listen to my mother saw on her violin whenever she was struck by the muse…but that was more in the realm of torture or child abuse… 🙀
 

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