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.
So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.
Faith ,'Get It Done'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Jul 31, 2017 4:24:57 pm PDT #14692 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Laura - Jul 31, 2017 4:36:30 pm PDT #14693 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Being old, there was no permanent press type clothes as a kid, so we had to iron our laundry too!
Jesse - Jul 31, 2017 4:48:45 pm PDT #14694 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Family laundry was also my main chore, starting in I think 5th grade?
Connie Neil - Jul 31, 2017 4:59:18 pm PDT #14695 of 30002
brillig
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.
Atropa - Jul 31, 2017 5:22:13 pm PDT #14696 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I started doing the laundry and all other household chores that weren't cooking or gardening when I was 9.
sarameg - Jul 31, 2017 5:40:06 pm PDT #14697 of 30002
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.
Connie Neil - Jul 31, 2017 6:37:25 pm PDT #14698 of 30002
brillig
But it was an offer for free tickets to Neil deGrasse Tyson!
Consuela - Jul 31, 2017 6:39:21 pm PDT #14699 of 30002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2017 6:59:35 pm PDT #14700 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Yeah. I need to get the kids doing more on the chore front. The chore board seemed to help some this weekend.
I just finished up with chores for today not too long ago.
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2017 7:00:49 pm PDT #14701 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Well, I probably should clean up in the kitchen, but I'm feeling too tired. Started getting it while cooking dinner but the noise irritated my wife so I quit cleaning.