If you’re also born in a desi middle-class household like me, then there would be many things we would already have in common to talk about. From being taken to temples across India and calling it a ‘vacation’ to parents apologizing by saying “khana kha le”, we have seen and bore it all. And doing various chores around the house like buying dhania from the market or cleaning our ever-messy rooms were part of our daily routine.
So when a western Twitter user posted a tweet asking whether people got paid for doing household chores as children, clearly our lot couldn’t relate to it one bit. Here’s the original tweet:-
Did you guys used to get paid to do chores ? How much ?
— kmt (@YanaaX6) August 9, 2020
Here are some of the funny reactions Tweeple had:-
Me reading this knowing I was paid with my existence on this earth pic.twitter.com/MQyvbsDsxf
— T E M I T R O O P E R (@Temi_omojola) August 10, 2020
You lot got paid to do them . My mom just said it would help me in future
— Phoebe (@pstallionnn) August 9, 2020
Lol no I was told it’s an “obligation” as the oldest
— Zayra 🦋 (@OnlyZayraa) August 10, 2020
Others mentioned how being allowed to live in their parents home was payment enough:-
Living in the house rent free was the payment for the chores…hmph 😩
— Kofi Josephs (@Keezus4) August 10, 2020
Rent paid, food , lights paid, gas paid, car insurance paid. yup, i got paid a life lesson.
— Change_your_Program (@program_change) August 10, 2020
I got given this Monday to Sunday /9-5 tax free pic.twitter.com/xGUdEPNSaE
— bekah💫 (@callmebekah) August 10, 2020
i got paid with internet usage, free rent, free water, free bed, free food, free electricity
— temi majekodunmi (@thatboytems) August 10, 2020
And then there’s the rest of us who hadn’t even thought about payment throughout our childhood:-
Were we supposed to get paid pic.twitter.com/XYiyM9yWf4
— 🇳🇬T.S🇿🇼 (@pressure_zer0) August 10, 2020
Paid???😛😛😛😛 in what life? Sigh pic.twitter.com/JyzwAxwDbc
— JadoreRiley🇯🇲 (@Jadoreriley) August 10, 2020
— Prince of the Gold Coast 🇬🇭🎹 (@SlimboyStories) August 9, 2020
oh so people actually got paid? thought that was just in movies 🌚
— hunnsss (@Ahxnna) August 10, 2020
And then the kids living abroad who actually got paid in cash or in-kind:-
€5- €10 for chores and massages, and when they send me to the shops they don’t get their change back
— CHICHI (@mscaramelx) August 11, 2020
Apparently I had already been paid. With the last thing they bought me🙃
— Jameel🥱 (@JameelYusuf14) August 9, 2020
i got paid in stardoll and club penguin vouchers
— Staci 🇬🇭 (@staccii_) August 10, 2020
£10 to wash my dad’s car
£15 to vacuum the entire house
£5-£10 to wash plates
£5-£10 to dust the whole houseReading some of these comments, really reminds me that I really got off easy by having westernised aff parents 😭😂
— #BLACKLIVESMATTER ✨🇳🇬✨ (@Cajovi_Daniel) August 10, 2020
Were you one of God’s favorite children who also got paid? Or was your fate like the rest of us mortals? Tell us!