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!