Name a chore you did when you were little that kids nowadays have never done...

My parents entertained a lot so I was chief table setter. Since a lot of people don't have family dinners anymore, I doubt if kids do that often.
 
I was four when I had my first farm job of gathering, cleaning, grading/candeling eggs for dad to sell —— and I better not break any.

Kids today probably don’t even know that eggs come from somewhere else before they get to a carton in the grocery store cooler…….

I like watching Shark Farmer when he takes to the streets and asks folks young and old what pictures of farm equipment are. It’s easy to tell who the farm kids are and who the city & suburbia kids are….
 
Mary Stetler said:
I fight to keep writing checks. I want paper statements too. Power company wants my credit card number on file and I won't give it to them so they refuse to let me pay on line if I won't let them keep the number. I have nothing on auto pay!!!
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I'm with you 100%, Mary!

While I don't write check anymore, I still love how the payer can post-date such checks, and as for paper bills, yes! We have zero auto-pay anything coming out of our accounts, and if I were to share any advice on such to today's younger generation, I would advise them to live by the same.

Just the thought of someone else having ready access to our accounts makes me gag.
 
I was brought up on a poultry farm Connie and had to help to grade and pack the eggs as well.

Joining the Navy at 15 years of age and signing up for nine years of service (Australia)

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How I remember polishing my shoes, but loved the white liquid shoe polish that was put on with the sponge tipped dabber!

Boy, how times have changed.

Putting on morning coffee for my mom and dad on weekends! We had an old-fashioned stovetop percolator, I'd fill the coffee basket accordingly, fill the pot with water, put all together and turn the element on high. Watching the glass topper intently, when the pot started bubbling regularly and the dark coffee erupting up against the glass bubble steadily, I'd turn the element down and when mom and dad got up, coffee was ready for them.

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Great thread. Lots of memories.
It was my job on a morning to light the coal fire . It was laid with twizzles of tight newspaper , bits of wood , firelighters and coal.
Once lit I had to stand there drawing it with a big sheet of newspaper over the fireguard.
Can't imagine many 10 year olds being allowed to do that nowadays lol.
 
Packing eggs. My parents had a family poultry farm. My sister and I had to help out in the egg room. There are very few family farms these days. They are mostly big companies.
 
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