[bgill]

Taught mine to sew and took a sewing machine when they left home.

[HotHunt]

My mom taught my brother and sister and I to sew, wash our own clothes, iron, clean house, cook meals and basically take care of ourselves.

I'm 70 years old and I still mend my own clothes, do my own laundry, fix my own meals and clean the house.

I am married for 43 years in no small part because I didn't assume my wife would do all these chores for me like my "housekeeper".

I had friends in college and the military that didn't know which end of the broom you swept with or how to cook a simple meal or even know what to do at the laundromat.

Dependent mama's boys, all of them.