Anyone have any ideas of chores I can do?

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I find it hard for me to do chores because it messes with my routine but I'm gonna push through because I need cash lol. I want to get into literature. I think it could become one of my obsessions. I want to go on a shopping spree at my local barnes and noble. One of the books I want is the old Great Gatsby book, a book on aspergers, psychology (I OBSESS with psychology), and one on some specific cultures of the world. OH and some books to help me learn Spanish! It could be useful where I live and I LOVE learning languages. I tried to learn Japanese-I got so far! But video game learning just isn't for me-reading is.

So any ideas of chores I can do? Do you do chores? What do you do? How much money should ask her if I could make weekly?

I think you should do all the chores you possibly can, you're 17 (according to your profile) so you need to learn independence, the best way to learn that is to practice doing the things you'd have to do for yourself when you leave the nest.
I'm assuming that you're living with your parents, so you should probably discuss it with them, but perhaps start out with vacuuming, as well as clothes and dish washing. The noise of the vacuum cleaner and washing machine is known to be irritating to Aspies, but I've found if I'm the one using the machine I feel in control of it, so it doesn't bother me so much.
Perhaps work on adding chores one at a time as you become comfortable with them. So far as routine, if you do them regularly and your parents agree you can work out your own schedule, this will help with a sense of control, routine, and learning tasks that will assist you with independence in the future.

I was doing pretty much all my own tasks before I left home, and started with helping my grandmother in the garden when I was a toddler.
This is probably why I got into mowing the lawn - the sense of control made the noise more tolerable.

If you have difficulty doing unfamiliar tasks, you can ask a family member to help you learn, by doing it with you; I've always found it easier to learn tasks by doing it with some direction, or observation, so I think that's a good way to go.

You should also consider dipping your toe into the working world. I had a paper run in my teens, then worked in a supermarket. By the time I left school I had several years experience working in different environments, and found the transition not so difficult as I would have, had I gone from school to work without any prior work exposure.
Unless you are from a well to do family, you will find more money in the workforce than in doing menial tasks around the home.
Just remember if you do decide to work, that nothing is forever, and you don't need to get hung up thinking some job or task is below you.
Plenty of successful people have started out doing stuff that others wouldn't, it builds character, and helps you learn to relate to people you otherwise would not have had an opportunity to learn from.

I break down my chores so that they are less overwhelming, for instance, doing laundry and sorting it are separate, dusting the book shelves and sweeping up are separate, I take a short break between dinner and doing dishes, and so on. This way they are easier to work into my routine because individual chores take less time than tidying an entire room at once. I still can't handle a large vacuum cleaner so we took out the carpeting and I use a hand vac occasionally on throw rugs. It is easier when I control the noise.

I would also recommend trying working if you really want money and can find something. If you do pursue that don't get discouraged if the first jobs you find aren't great or if you find that a lot of places aren't hiring. Taking on chores is a good first step towards more independence, getting a job would be a good second step even if it's only a few hours or otherwise less than ideal.

A cheap way to get books is to join BookMooch.com It's a really good book swap site and it's free. You just fill out the thing and then click join. You can decide whether or not to send books out of your country or not (it costs more so you may not want to) and then you list books that you have that you will give away. For every ten books you list you get a point to request one from your country. For every book that someone requests from you, you get a point that you can use to request another book. Sending them out of the country costs more in terms of money and points but you get more points for it.

You just wrap up the book and mail it in the snail mail. It costs maybe about $5 tops to send within the US for me. To get books you can list you can go to the library and yard sales and get lots of paperbacks for a dime each and list them.

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