I did my own laundry starting at 12 because my mom messed it up.

I did my own laundry starting at 10 or 12 because my mom made me do it. And I started doing dishes at 10 because my mom cooked dinner and 10 is old enough to wash the damn dishes. I imagine it's even easier these days if you have a dishwasher to load.

My kids did their laundry and other chores early because DH and I both worked! Who has time for that stuff? They still didn't do anywhere near as many chores as I did as a kid, and my mom was a stay at home mom. I've always had a cleaning person regularly because the floors and bathrooms would never be clean otherwise.

mac does his own laundry and he has to do 1 chore a day in order to get wireless access. Now his chores are easy - vacuum 2 rooms, take out recycling bin and bring it back in... - but it is something and with only 2 of us, it keeps the house basically manageable if I do a bit on the weekends.

When I was a kid, my sister and I would trade off each night, one of us setting the table before dinner and the other clearing the table, putting the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, and putting the leftovers in the fridge. I didn't start doing my own laundry until high school, but that was partially because our laundry room was in the basement, and the stairs to get there are steep and have a weird corner, and I couldn't really carry a laundry basket up and down the stairs safely. I did usually have to fold my own clothes after an adult washed them, though. I think my mom started having us kids fold the easy things, like towels and pillowcases, when we were preschoolers.

Being old, there was no permanent press type clothes as a kid, so we had to iron our laundry too!

Family laundry was also my main chore, starting in I think 5th grade?

I didn't do any chores because Mother kept saying "You're not doing that right, here, let me do it." We may have wandered in to help with laundry occasionally, but it wasn't anything that was assigned. Sometimes we'd ask to make dinner, but it wasn't a regular thing. The only thing we had to do was take care of the garden in the summer.

I started doing the laundry and all other household chores that weren't cooking or gardening when I was 9.

So some actual rocket scientist at work was successfully phished, locking down our network and forcing a password change. Except none of the login failures indicated this, so I had a frustrating hour trying to set up to work from home tomorrow. Hot tip to IT: if you're forcing a mass password change, maybe put that in the login failure prompt, not in an email ( and vmail that converts to email after x hrs) that users cannot access! Especially in peak vacation times. Jesus. Fucking rocket scientists.

But it was an offer for free tickets to Neil deGrasse Tyson!