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Nope - we all had to contribute equally around the house.

ETA: we weren't paid for chores. They were an expectation of being a contributing member of the family.

No – that ish would NOT fly with my mom!! I don’t actually remember having that many chores to do, but the ones I remember my brother and I usually had to do together. Like, sorting the recycling we had to do together, weeding the garden we did together, dishes we did together and divided (one dried dishes, the other put away, etc.)

ETA: neither of us were paid for the chores described above. They were expectations.

Yes. It wasn't because he was my brother though. I did way more chores than my brother and my sister. It was because I was the stepchild.

We had the exact same chores at the same ages. So we had to do dishes at 10, mow lawn at 14, etc. However, I feel like my brothers spent less time doing chores more because they were my younger siblings. By the time cooking and dishes were their chores we ate out and had take out most nights because everyone was so busy

@Jess1483: Same here. Expectation was the same, but I did more and my brothers got in trouble for not doing their share.

No. I offered to help my mom out more, but that was because I had sympathy for all the work she did. We were never really forced to do chores.

Yes but because I really liked being my mom's helper. I don't think I got paid, but my brother definitely got paid to cut the grass. I think my mom probably bought me more stuff though cause I went shopping with her.

Nope. The labor was evenly distributed. He even had his evening for dishes, etc.

I definitely did more "chores". My parents treated us very differently, but I looked at us as me being the oldest more agreeable/ helpful child.

My dad always tapped me to do yard work with him. The way I was able to spend time with my mom on the weekend was helping her with laundry or bill payment. I also liked setting the dinner table. My parents would always say how I was such a good packer and that made me want to show off of my skills during/ after a Sam's Club run. I don't recall other chores, but my bro definitely got off extra light when it came to helping around the house.

Neither of us got paid for doing anything around the house. If we needed money for something we asked for it. I will say though my bro got his first cell phone at 16 and was supposed to cut the lawn in exchange. That was short lived.

Nope, my parents are feminists and were super aware of treating us equally/as individuals rather than having gendered expectations for us

I initially voted yes but then I realized that once my brother had a driver's license he had to drive me around and pick me up/drop me off from school. So if you factor in that stuff as chores it probably was about even.

We didn't really have formal chores, it was more like everyone has a role/job in the family. and these roles kind of persist to this day.

Nope but we really didn't have chores. As we got older our mom would ask us to clear the table or something and I probably did those kinds of things more often but I'm the older one.

We had very equal chores, but I actually did mine and brother just wound up half doing his and owing my parents money. If we did our chores unasked, we got paid. If we had to be reminded, we didn't get paid. If we didn't do them, we owed our parents money!

Huh. I didn't have brothers, but I always felt I was kinda "treated" like a brother. I did all the outside chores which were intense (all horse care, dog and cat care, majority of lawn care, painting and mending fence, garbage to the dump, and the worst... raking 10 acres with swamp willows), on top of the inside chores. My grandfather grew up on a farm and did all the work while his sisters were... not doing any work. My husband had younger sisters, he was the only boy and he worked his life away doing everything from cooking to cleaning to getting them ready to school, to all outside chores and the majority of work for their business.

Every day stuff was very equal. At grandmas, holidays, birthdays, or any special thing I did way more.

Nope, not at all. Although we didn't really have a ton of chores. We used to have to do the dishes, but we'd just switch who did them every day. And we both had to help with setting and clearing the table. No other real chores besides that (and supposedly keeping our rooms clean) and we weren't paid for any of it, though I don't think we did enough to deserve being paid anything anyway.

Yep. It was "girls work" in my house. Always has been. And we were both supposed to do dishes every day after dinner, but he'd run to the bathroom for an hour, and my mom would beg me to "just finish them, for me", so I would do them all because I wasn't allowed to leave any....and then, without fail, he'd magically reappear after I did them all. We didn't even have yard stuff for him to do, because we had a gardener.

Shit will not fly in my house.