I love these lists. Cause they’re always wrong.
Right off the bat
1 - Nobody does handwritten notes in snail mail anymore. And nobody needs to know how. In the time it would take most people to find a stamp they could send half a dozen emails
2 - vote by mail has taken over. My polling place has been my living room for 20 years.
3 - phonecalls? Bwahahaha. I make restaurant reservations on the web.
4 - cash?! Are these people from the 1950s. Cash is dead. Even illegal transactions don’t use cash anymore
5 - ok pound of meat is fine. Not exactly a life skill though.
6 - car manuals are kept online. Air gas and flat tires are good skills
7 - why? Really in the modern world maps are worthless. My last trip I was using a map I got halfway there and the freeway was closed due to an accident. Phone to the rescue. I stopped even bothering with maps after that. The phone is up to date, all the way to the current road conditions, map isn’t.
8 - is that a life skill? I’d probably say it more “listen to your body”.
9 - checks?! Good lord those died before cash.
10 - hey finally a legitimate actual necessary life skill that teens really should know
11-13 - also solid
14 - you’ll know your socsec by heart eventually, I wouldn’t call it a life skill so much as repetition leads to memorization
15 - well, it depends. There actually are disposable storage containers, and tuperware is going bankrupt so no need to learn about them
16 - not really a life skill, but yes, have your proof of insurance or pay the price
17 - read signs, yes good
18 - read labels, yes good
19 - go to counter, give paper, come back in 20 minutes, that’s not a life skill
20 - BWAHAHAHA, ah easterners. I’ve learned to tie a tie 3 times... and then forgot. I think I’ve only worn a tie once this century, best man at a wedding. IMHO, much better life skill is move to a part of the country where nobody where’s ties. Really, they’re basically nooses, do you really want to start every morning putting a noose around your neck.
21 - pay bills, yup good skill
22 - is that really the basics of cooking? OK fine. But it’s kind of fun to look that stuff up online. There’s actually bunches of bakes potato recipes, this stuff isn’t as cut and dry as people think
23 - look for mold, sniff test, yeah sure
24 - once again proving these people are old. 90% of the lightbulbs will never be replaced anymore. Same with batteries.
25 - rejection, good skill
26 - I think this is a repeat of read labels, good skill though
27 - garages are going away, and electric cars, still probably a good skill for another 15 to 20 years I guess
28 - or towel or placemat or plate or whatever, yeah I guess that’s a skill
29 - modern world, the way you pay tells you all about tipping most of the time now, right there, push a button, bang
30 - they’re right, and for a change they didn’t show their age by listing old methods of doing these things that nobody uses anymore
31 - use words, yeah ok
32 - tax software, mostly online now, will tell you, and heck a lot of times can “get” the paperwork for you from the businesses generating it, modern world man, it’s exciting
33 - I think that only happens when people are drunk
Really in the modern world maps are worthless.
Try going to northern Arizona where there is no cell service. All you see is your car's marker on a grid. No turn directions are uttered. We had paper maps and did just fine.
90% of the lightbulbs will never be replaced anymore.
My LED light bulbs must be replaced more often that the incandescent ones required.
garages are going away
That is ridiculous.