My parents had a home grown work force of three between my siblings and I. We never got an allowance, we got (under) paid for the work we did, and there was never a shortage of it. Summer vacation was not much of a vacation at all. Every morning when we got up there would be a list on the kitchen table. If we got right to it, all the tasks on that list could be accomplished by early afternoon and the balance of the day was our "vacation" time. Sometimes the list wasn't finished by the time Mom and Dad got home from work, never a good thing.
