When Lil Miss was in 4th grade, she entered a 4-H cooking contest. The judges said she was too young to make crepes so I must have done it for her, grrrr. A couple years later, I was sick as a dog so the Thanksgiving spread was up to her. She did everything by herself except had to get Mr. b to lift the turkey out of the oven. I started teaching the kids life skills when they were little.
Growing up, money was tight so other than hand-me-downs, I didn’t get department store clothes so had to sew my own. I remember in jr. high knitting those vests that were popular. So cool back then but ugly now, lol. Jr. high was also when I learned that tie dying saved stained clothes (decades later I sighed when kiddo was required to buy a “new” t-shirt for a science class tie dying project). When high school came along with its required home ec. class, I demanded they let me into ag class. Whew, that caused a huge stink (oh no, not a girl!) but I got in.
That’s so cool that she could do that. I tried to do some cooking with my kids and grand kids. Of course with the popularity of Micro Waves, that was all they really wanted to do. Instant Gratification Generation.LOL
One of my grand daughters was the only girl in Ag class here too. My oldest daughter used to go play basketball with the guys, because they didn’t have clinics nor as much practice or summer programs for the girls basketball.
The guys did not like it, but the coach was all A-OK, and impressed with her fortitude.
I got most of my clothes from the “Next To New” store in an adjacent town. They were in style, but not available locally, so I didn’t run into anyone else with the same outfit. I didn’t tell, and no one really knew it.
We didn’t have a lot of money for clothes either. There was no walmart with low priced new clothing. I did make stuff to wear in the summer. Used to make my kids clothes when they were toddlers, and my own when we were newly wed.