If you remember these things.....

[TominMO]

.....then you are a pathetic old geezer. Like cheesy for example. Or me.

[JerryHawk250]

Yep! I'm an old geezer. lol

[cheesy]

Originally Posted by JerryHawk250

Yep! I'm an old geezer. lol

Ditto. Though I never mastered cursive. I figure most of my teachers probably went home and had a stiff drink after trying to read my scratches. Unless cursive meant picturesque speech. I have a Masters in that.

I suck at carpentry, too.

[TominMO]

Remember typewriters?!?!
Carbon copies?
Whiteout?

[Zapkin]

at this point, my cursive is so bad that I had to give up signing my name..i just print it. probably in the last 20 years...every signature of mine was unique. LOL always chicken scratch and never the same.

[XLsior]

As a lefty my cursive ended up as page smudge...Though I avoided the crows foot writing grasp which developed in south paws quiet often because of the fact you cover up what you've just written...


I was actually pretty good style wise but I just took longer than all the righties...


As for the other 14 skills...well the way the world is turning you'd be far better off knowing them then not and I wouldn't call them obsolete just underappreciated in post modern times...

[jsumd]

Originally Posted by TominMO

.....then you are a pathetic old geezer. Like cheesy for example. Or me.

I was born in the early 80s and I feel like I belong to the last generation that really knows how to do a lot of these things. I had to fill out the library check out card to take books, had to memorize phone numbers, remember my parents using paper maps all the time, etc.

My father was also a bit older when I was born and he taught me a lot of stuff from the older days as well. He would not let me learn to drive on anything but a manual truck for example.

[jsumd]

Originally Posted by XLsior

As a lefty my cursive ended up as page smudge...Though I avoided the crows foot writing grasp which developed in south paws quiet often because of the fact you cover up what you've just written...

Lefty as well and I smudged everything! Plus spiral bound notebooks killed my hand!

[riderjoe]

Some of these skills can still be handy! I'm proud to say my handwriting is pretty good, not just cursive.

[XLsior]

Originally Posted by jsumd

Lefty as well and I smudged everything! Plus spiral bound notebooks killed my hand!

spiral bound notebooks...I had forgotten how bad they were.


I think slate was just being phased out and I didn't have slide rulers as calculators were becoming cheap enough for children in schools.


Also the cane/whipping stick was still being administered for enough of my early childhood to make an impression before that was also removed from 'curriculum'


last of the Gen X early 80s where analogue and digital was crossover...
I believe were now being called a micro generation 'Xenials' 1977-1983

[cheesy]

Jeez, Mrs.C still puts up preserves. Apple Butter, Applesauce, Pie filling from our trees. Also Pepper Jam, Christmas Jam,(smell so good) and pickles. She just bought this fancy pressure cooker that not only cans, she uses it for pork chops and has made killer cheesecake in it. To me, it's a black magic device.

[Bikenut]

Does anyone remember lighting a small fire under the engine of your car in order for it to start on cold winter mornings? Maybe it's just a Yooper thing?

[Aussie_in_MO]

Originally Posted by Bikenut

Does anyone remember lighting a small fire under the engine of your car in order for it to start on cold winter mornings? Maybe it's just a Yooper thing?

I've heard about this from a buddy who was also a Yooper. Pretty sure it's regional.
That said, I do remember my parents pulling the batteries from their cars and bringing them into the house so they wouldn't freeze during northern IL winters in the early 80's


Regarding the video, I'm still trying to figure out how "fine china" is a skill, but I digress

[TominMO]

Originally Posted by XLsior

spiral bound notebooks...I had forgotten how bad they were.


I think slate was just being phased out and I didn't have slide rulers as calculators were becoming cheap enough for children in schools.


Also the cane/whipping stick was still being administered for enough of my early childhood to make an impression before that was also removed from 'curriculum'


last of the Gen X early 80s where analogue and digital was crossover...
I believe were now being called a micro generation 'Xenials' 1977-1983

Graduated high school in 1968. I was such an uber-dork that not only did I have a slide rule, I had a belt pouch to put it in!

[2LZ]

Just last year we handed off the China and crystal to one of Mrs. 2LZ distant family members who still cared. It was almost impossible to find someone in the family.