Weekly question #37 Did you get paid for doing chores when you were a child?

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This is my article about the weekly question from the English Diary 2024. The theme in August is "Endless house chores".

Weekly question: Did you get paid for doing chores when you were a child?

I don't think I ever got paid for doing chores. I sometimes helped my mother cook or vacuum the rooms.

Especially when cooking, I was excited to bake sweets with her. I learned how to bake cookies. This may not be a chore. At least I didn't feel like it was a chore. It was one of the fun things to do with my mother. I remember how I was bad at cutting the cucumbers into slices. I don't think I'm good enough, even now. My husband sometimes tells me the slice isn't a slice. Then, I would tell him to try it himself. It becomes a quarrel, but we get along well afterwards.

Vacuuming the rooms was a chore, but I didn't feel bad about this either. After I finished vacuuming the rooms in the house, I felt refreshed. Don't you feel good after cleaning up? Or is it just me?

House chores do stress me out, but this weekly question reminded me how I used to enjoy them. It didn't matter to me whether I got paid or not.

Did you ever get paid for doing chores when you were a child?

I was trying to remember if I ever got pocket money for doing chores, and I don't think I did. I enjoyed cooking and vacuuming with my mother.

Rather than just cooking with my mother, baking sweets was a joy. I learned how to bake cookies, and cutting out shapes was fun too.

What I was bad at was slicing cucumbers thinly. Even now, I'm not that good at it. My husband sometimes tells me they are too thick (lol). I get stubborn and tell him to try it himself, which sometimes leads to a little argument. Well, even if we have an argument like that, we make up before we know it, so maybe it's not a big fight (lol).

Vacuuming the rooms was something I did because I felt it was a chore. But don't you feel refreshed after you finish? Is it just me who feels that way?

Doing house chores can certainly be stressful or feel like a hassle. This weekly question helped me remember how I enjoyed them when I was a child. I didn't get pocket money for doing chores, but for the child I was, that didn't really matter. There were times when I was able to enjoy doing things while learning through casual interactions with my mother.

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