Skills Everyone Should Master

[kittenpants]

Skills Everyone Should MasterI LOVE lists like this. I often find things on them that make me think, "Oh, right, I wanted to learn that!" or "Pffft. I think XYZ is much more important than this thing, and it's not even on the list

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[kenllama]

This a good list. I came up with a list like this a few years ago with a student, but never posted it. I wonder where it is. I think ours was a bit heavier on the survivalist end. (Like: kill an animal and turn it into dinner

[kittenpants]

Make a small tank? You know, I think I can figure out how to do that, if we can consider "small" to be origami-scale.

I totally agree about the egg. A perfect fried egg is a very narrow focus. "Make a great breakfast" "Competently prepare eggs in several ways" and/or "Master making one spectacular dish" would make more sense to me. If everyone in the world mastered *fried eggs*, we'd be less enriched, as humanity, than if everyone mastered different dishes with excellence. It would certainly make for better potlucks. ("Learn to make one spectacular potluck dish" in fact, might be a winner... certainly useful in Pagan community!)

[kenllama]

I concur. For my spectacular potluck dishes, I have mastered cornbread and tofu pot pie!

-- llazy llama who is not llogged in

[geekatlarge]

I think it is missing "Make an improvement to your home", I loved the mention of the "Happiest Baby on the Block". Patrick is a very laid back little boy and I know we employed some of those techniques when he was a newborn.

[chronarchy]

Well, I read "Dump a poisonous friend" and thought it meant "Dump a poisoned friend," meaning that you should learn how to take a friend who has ingested poison to the ER and sneak away quietly so that no one will know that you dropped them off.

[kenllama]

Or perhaps something involving concrete overshoes and the fishes at the bottom of the drink...

[womanofsalt]

I would have to add shot and clean a gun, but perhaps that is just b/c of who I am married to. Make a perfect egg comes right out of the classic Talks Upon Practical Subjects (household management for wives handbook first published in 1895). And of course, there is the the Mrs. Beeton, who didn't talk about the importance of making the perfect egg, but showed you how to select and cook them several different ways. http://www.mrsbeeton.com/index.html
I would also have to agree about some basic home maint. skills, like replacing a light fixture, a pipe, caulking windows and tiles.