Something Worth Normailizing
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And put metal, wood and automotive shops back in high schools.
Yes. You learned how to make biscuits. I started baking at 7 and cooked for the harvest hands by myself when I was 13. I was a better cook than the teacher. I was also a better seamstress. I learned carpentry from my brother and have done all the finish work in our two homes. Had to. Champagne taste, beer budget.
Very impressive! My husband says, I have a champagne taste and no wallet🤣 He asks, why do you always have to have the best? Me: I picked you didn’t I? Don’t question why I want the best!
When I did this, it was very unusual for woman to take command of power tools. I am not physically strong enough to handle full pieces of wall board but I can finish to a 5 and do patches. I was good at geometry and can visualize how pieces of standard molding go together for elaborate crown molding and wainscoting. I have built closet storrage systems and built in book shelves and painting, of course. Some framing. In all candor, sewing requires more skill. Arthritis prevents delicate hand work but I can weild my favorite power nail gun. I know. More info than anyone wants to know. Sorry
Grin. I have a house full of the best. I am an excellent bargain hunter. Scallamandre fabric, herrend China, waterford crystal, lenox, spode, virginia metalcrafters, baldwin.
I am very impressed! Good for you. I learned to plan and budget my wedding, tailor a suit, cook in High school Home Ec, I started baking at a young age also. Pies became a specialty. We canned everything from the garden and I've taught my daughter to can. By the way, the best canning cookbook ever is the Farm Journal's Freezing and Canning Cookbook published in 1973 edited by Nell B Nichols and Kathryn Larson. This one edition has many prize winning recipes. We can the meatless spaghetti sauce and V4 juice each year. Delicious. They do need to reintroduce life skills back into school. Trade schools will be the future of our country. When I see young people who went to trade schools, they make good money, and have job stability. Then I see college graduates who can't get jobs. I see all kinds of people who have worthless degrees and do menial jobs. They whine that they can't get a job, but it was their poor choice of fields to study. WTF! That was a waste of money!
I have the same Farm Journal's Freezing and Canning Cookbook, same year. A friend found it for me. It's the canning bible. If there were one thing we could not do without in the winter it's the V4. If my house were on fire, I would grab my canning books and recipe boxes. Everything else is replaceable. It's nice to meet you.
If the people who get paid to do it can learn it , we can figure it out.
Now with them moving pictures on this boob tube it's almost easy ; )
Besides 4 years of Metal shop and 1 year Auto shop in HS, I took a Foods/cooking class my senior year so I could be in a class with lots of girls. True story.
Or change a light bulb. No really, apartment managers near college's are seeing college students change apartments. They are realizing that the students don't know how to change a light bulb so are aking to change apartments. So fing retarded.
Ok. That's an old joke. How many so and so's does it take to change a light bulb? 3. One to hold the bulb and two to turn the ladder.
That's assuredly a new degree of helplessness.
Agree.
Yes we had all three of those in grades 9-12 in the late sixties. The woodshop teacher had a beautiful designed paddle with aerodynamically drilled holes.
And shooting and archery and civics