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My step-mother made a table for all the kids, so that every day of the week we had a specific chore to do:

kitchen (clean all dishes from anyone doing anything in the kitchen, tidy up, set the dinner table, clean up after dinner, sweep floor, wipe counters, organize messes, leave in perfect state for next day)

laundry (do the days laundry for 6 kids and 2 adults)

dusting (dust specific rooms in the house)

vacuum (vacuum either upstairs or downstairs of house, including living room that was off-limit to us kids, all nooks)

bathrooms (clean 3 bathrooms - toilets, counters, floor, mirrors, etc.)

baking (bake a batch of something like cookies or muffins)

Those were the regular chores. On top of that we had seasonal chores such as going to a local farm for strawberry picking or a bush for blackberry picking, chopping firewood, keeping fires going through winter, washing cars, of course cleaning our own rooms, etc.)

Allowance was $1.50 Canadian every two weeks in the 1980's. Over a year, maybe we got about 10% of that money as our own spending money because the rest had to go to school supplies and buying gifts for the multitude of birthdays in an 8-person home, along with xmas presents for family and step-family.

hide, stay out off sight, don't speak, don't draw attention to myself.

I had to empty and load the dishwasher, clean up my room, vacuum and sweep the floors, dust, and other seasonal chores such as: wedding the garden, mowing the grass, feeding animals.

My allowance was $30.00 a month in the 90's

I believe that doing chores is a great was to teach responsibility.

Dishes, do our own laundry (age appropriately of course), feed pets, weed garden, vacuum, clean bathroom, our bedrooms and wash the walls every so often. I was in charge of cleaning out the family car and my brother had to help my dad scrape and paint our pool every year. I got a dollar a week.

do dishes,clean kitchen,clean bathrooms,dust the house,feed the pets,do laundry,clean my room,cook super,cut the grass,sweep and mop floors,vacuum bedrooms,water plants,& wash the cars.and i get no allowance

Sounds like you and I might be related ! Maybe since I am much older than you that someone passed the rules down from generation to generation !
Since I grew up in the 50s, the wages were much lower ! A whole lot lower !!!
At the time I was rebellious ! Now that I look back I find nothing wrong with what the parents are doing.
Hang in there ! Someday in the future you will remember me telling this to you when you have children of your own !