Ten Things Most People can No Longer Do: Based on this article, I would add Counting. I found only eight things. : )...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Based on this article, I would add Counting. I found only eight things. : )

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melismus Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country

I found all ten, and can still do all of them

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jerryc41 wrote:

Based on this article, I would add Counting. I found only eight things. : )

https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/10-once-important-things-people-dont-know-how-to-do-anymore/?_cmp=diytipshintsnl&_ebid=diytipshintsnl12192020&_mid=389017&ehid=73A5119F6D6B55A335D41D8BD7D8D335A74FB2CE

Found all ten and I can still do them

folkus

I found 10 and can do each of them.

ELNikkor

Still can. I make sure my sons learn to drive on a stick shift. (It helped my oldest get a job as a valet, as most applicants could NOT!) I also made sure they learned to write neatly in cursive. One skill notoriously lacking out there which I also taught my boys is correct 10-finger typing style. Now they can type rings around all their "pecking" friends!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

melismus wrote:

I found all ten, and can still do all of them

Okay. I guess they were late arrivals.

Triple G

Could still do all ten, but some are absolutely useless as VCRs and rotary phones are not returning.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

jerryc41 wrote:

Based on this article, I would add Counting. I found only eight things. : )

https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/10-once-important-things-people-dont-know-how-to-do-anymore/?_cmp=diytipshintsnl&_ebid=diytipshintsnl12192020&_mid=389017&ehid=73A5119F6D6B55A335D41D8BD7D8D335A74FB2CE

I've done them all, probably still can

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

melismus wrote:

I found all ten, and can still do all of them

Ditto.

A pertinent addition to the list might include analyzing light, exposure, and composition before taking a photo because film and developing weren't exactly cheap. Coming home from vacation with a handful of exposed film cartridges seemed like a lot, but pales in comparison to today's hundreds or thousands of digital images.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I have them all covered except penmanship--I have always been a sloppy writer, no matter how hard I try. My printing is great, though.

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

10 for 10

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

jerryc41 wrote:

Based on this article, I would add Counting. I found only eight things. : )

https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/10-once-important-things-people-dont-know-how-to-do-anymore/?_cmp=diytipshintsnl&_ebid=diytipshintsnl12192020&_mid=389017&ehid=73A5119F6D6B55A335D41D8BD7D8D335A74FB2CE

I see ten.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

all bar rabbit ears...... we never had those.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

jerryc41 wrote:

Based on this article, I would add Counting. I found only eight things. : )

https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/10-once-important-things-people-dont-know-how-to-do-anymore/?_cmp=diytipshintsnl&_ebid=diytipshintsnl12192020&_mid=389017&ehid=73A5119F6D6B55A335D41D8BD7D8D335A74FB2CE

I can do all 10, have the "stuff" for most of them in the house or garage (no rotary phone). And some of the stuff, like a DVR I still have hooked up but almost never use (collection of old tapes-mostly copied over to a disk now but a few commercial tapes of trains had copy protect and our special needs son hasn't worn them out yet), my penmanship is awful, I think the wife tossed our last paper phone books but there may be a few hiding in the closet or back of a file drawer.
The rabbit ears, I have 2 or 3 small HD antennas of different types - the one that really is "rabbit ears" is on the big screen that the Play Station and VCR are hooked to (no cable hookup on that one on purpose) and here on the fringes of the LA Metro area the last time I checked it gets a huge number of broadcast stations. I also have the AM/FM radio equivalent on two radios.

Bill 45

I still use phone book, paper map, non-electric typewriter.