Name a chore...

[Ronni]

Clapping chalkboard erasers together.

Changing a record player needle

Hand washing the dinner dishes every night

Tucking the bottom sheet under the mattress because fitted sheets hadn't been invented yet.

 

[jujube]

Bringing in the milk from the porch.
Feeding the laundry into the wringer and getting your fingers nipped.

 

[Mike]

Bringing 1 ton of coal in from the
roadside to the "Coal Bunker" with
a pail, took forever it seemed, but
I got paid for doing it.

Mike.

 

[Oldguy]

Get up and go to the TV to change the channel!

 

[CeeCee]

Bringing in the milk from the porch.
Feeding the laundry into the wringer and getting your fingers nipped.

Did those also but don’t think I nipped my fingers.

Also had to change the channel for my dad.

 

[Pappy]

Dumping the garbage into large containers because we didn’t have plastic bags and garbage pickup. Once a week, we would haul junk up to our woods about 4 miles away.

 

[CeeCee]

I just remembered that I was the one that got to paste the green stamps into the book.

I also got to pick out something I wanted sometimes...usually it was something for my room.

 

[ClassicRockr]

Use a pay phone or home dial phone.

I remember there was a video online of two high school student TRYING to use a home dial phone. Both would try to use the dial, but only turn the dial part way for the high numbers, like 8 or 9. Funny as heck!

 

[RadishRose]

I can't think of any others that haven't been mentioned already.

 

[Sunny]

Helping Mom fold your baby sibling's diapers when they came off the line.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Sweep out the car with a whisk broom.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Licking trading stamps.

That was my reward when I skipped going to church on Sunday mornings.

 

[hollydolly]

being sent out to bring in the frozen washing from the line in winter....

 

[moviequeen1]

sweeping the front and back yard

 

[Tommy]

Going through the Sears Christmas "Wish Book" catalog.

 

[Pappy]

Grandma would put the washed clothes into the wringer and I would hold on to them and put into the laundry basket.
Help mix the yellow coloring into the, whatever it was, to make fake butter.
I would turn the handle on the homemade ice cream maker until I couldn’t turn it anymore.

 

[Geezerette]

Oops double post.

 

[Geezerette]

Most of the above & burning piles of leaves in the fall. Carefully done & the fires never got out of control. At the gas station, Having some one else pump your gas & raise the hood & check the oil & fluids

 

[twinkles]

hanging clothes outside until your hands got frozen----bring a great big jug of kerosene from the basement for the stove

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

Going grocery shopping with my mom by bus because Dad needed the car for work and once a month paying bills in person at the electric, water and gas company.

 

[Seeker]

Cuttin your own switch off the tree.

Turnin the antenna outside.

 

[Sassycakes]

My much older brother and his family moved in my Mom's house after he got out of the Army, when I was 5yrs old.I automatically became Auntie Barbara will do it. So I became a baby sitter to keep my nephew occupied. Put him for his nap, feed him his bottle etc. I hung up clothes on the clothes line, and my sister and I washed the dishes. My sister did all the errands.

 

[Falcon]

Open the garage door.

Back out the car.

Get out of the car.

Walk up to the garage.

Close the garage door.

Walk back out to the car.

Drive to work.

Wish I had lived in the old horse & buggy days. Sigh!

 

[Butterfly]

I just remembered that I was the one that got to paste the green stamps into the book.

I also got to pick out something I wanted sometimes...usually it was something for my room.

Oooo -- your saying the Green Stamps thing reminded me that that was my and my sister's job, too. My mom would just throw them in a drawer and then periodically it would be our job to stick 'em in the little books. Hadn't thought about that in years. That glue was awful tasting. We got the idea of a damp sponge, but that always either got them too wet and the glue came off, or not wet enough and they wouldn't stick.

 

[Furryanimal]

Ironing