A friend with me, thought there were maracas. LOL
Another lost art, not mentioned, is how to build a stone wall or a fireplace that will draw properly.
Posted on 06/02/2014 3:35:50 AM PDT by kingattax
Our parents and grandparents may shake their heads every time we grab our smart phones to get turn-by-turn directions or calculate the tip.
But when it comes to life skills, our great-grandparents have us all beat. Here are some skills our great-grandparents had 90 years ago that most of us don’t.
1. Courting
While your parents and grandparents didn’t have the option to ask someone out on a date via text message, it’s highly likely that your great-grandparents didn’t have the option of dating at all.
Until well into the 1920s, modern dating didn’t really exist. A gentleman would court a young lady by asking her or her parents for permission to call on the family.
The potential couple would have a formal visit — with at least one parent chaperone present — and the man would leave a calling card. If the parents and young lady were impressed, he’d be invited back again and that would be the start of their romance.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.ancestry.com ...
People had to get up early in the mornings because it was cooler to do the chores. The afternoon heat is the reason for fiestas.
What would happen is those cities would become habitable after a few months. The gangs and moochers would eliminate each other in short order and illegals would run for the border. Libs would self emplode. People outside big metro areas would quickly learn life skills appropriate to the times but I doubt lace making would be at the top of their list. Kids would have to interact with their parents and parents might actually have to parent and stay together. In some ways, it’d be an improvement.
Dittos on lace, but I can make a shrimp net from scratch.
Take a look at the lingerie department in any store.
Now that I think of it, I think bro scared me more than any critter.
Oh yeh...Always a sears catalog for reading.
I still darn my socks. Good-quality comfy socks are hard to find, so when one gets a hole in it I’d rather fix it than have to go looking for more.
Besides, 5 minutes and a few inches of thread, versus $15-$25 (or more) for a new pair?
(Yes, I know there are cheaper socks out there, but they don’t feel good on my feet and they irritate my skin.)
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Couldn’t go to grandpa’s wedding because I had the mumps......
Some of these are silly. Some are great skills to have. Writing with a fountain pen? Really?
Correct sir. I’ve argued with people here who compare game laws with the “kings forest” and consider poaching a right that was infringed on by rich elites. They have no clue how decimated game animals were 100 years ago, or how hunters and fishermen fought to save what was left by establishing game laws and volunteering time and money to rebuild habitat. Ducks, turkey, whitetail deer, etc. were nearly wiped out in large areas where they thrive today, which is why people survived by hunting squirrel, rabbits, opossum, etc.
bttt
Instead of making lace, I can crochet and knit. Does that count?
“I read once that 1/3 of all Revolution-era marriages were to pregnant brides.”
Bundling gone wrong. :-)
I have cleaned a lot of fish and skinned my fair share of squirrels. I could do it again tomorrow if need be. I am expecting it actually.
Except for that whole slavery thing.
11 Skills Your Great-Grandparents Had That You Don’t
I don’t know who their target audience is, but I have experience in:
1. Courting
2. Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging
3. Butchering
4. Bartering
5. Haggling
6. Darning and mending
7. Corresponding by mail
9. Lighting a Fire Without Matches
10. Diapering With Cloth
11. Writing With a Fountain Pen
Young adults now have never dealt with this stuff? I mean, I can see butchering, but the rest?
Have you ever read the autobiography of Davey Crockett? You might enjoy that and it would burst some of your notions all to pieces.
I’ll give it a look. Which of my notions do you think it would burst? BTW, Crocket was extraordinarily different from the average man of his day. And, I have never read about or met anybody in the modern day who would be comparable.
A friend with me, thought there were maracas. LOL
Another lost art, not mentioned, is how to build a stone wall or a fireplace that will draw properly.
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