Chores

• Please tell us about the chores you did as a child.

• Who did what around the house: the cooking/cleaning/washing/etc.?

• Did you help around the house? How so?

• Did you help care for your family’s garden? How so?

• Did your brothers and sisters help around the house or care for the garden?

• Did your father help with the household tasks? If so, how?

• How would your family do laundry when you were growing up? Where did you hang the clothes in the winter? How often did your family do the laundry? How would you iron clothes?

• What were some of your outside chores?

• Did your mother work out in the fields or outside the home when you were growing up? What did she do? How often?

• Which chores did you enjoy, and which chores did you dislike?

• Were their differences between winter chores and summer chores? If so, please tell us what the differences were.

• Were you ever hired out to work for a neighbor or relative? If so, please tell us about this experience.

"Old Tractor" Esther (Haerter) Drefs