Life skills thread with instructions?

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Would pictures work? There are some things I'm not sure how to explain in pictures, but if you can tell us what would help you I'm sure we can give it a shot.

I'm sorry too! I feel like an ass now!

I've just been going through a really hard time and sometimes it's easy to take out frustration for bigger things on somebody else for little things.

I do get that you are frustrated too. You want to be able to do these things to get to the point to where you need to do the things I am talking about on my thread. I so feel you!

I sorry if I snarked at you. I shouldn't have.

I guess my point would have been, on a calmer day that: When I started cooking I didn't know what a lot of terms meant or how to prepare a lot of ingredients that the recipe called for. It took years for me to learn. I didn't even know how to pack a lunch for somebody when I first got married. I was cooking us hamburger helper every night and simply putting the leftovers of it on bread and putting that in a bag, 5 or 6 of them, until the leftovers were gone, to make my husbands lunch. I seriously thought that was as ok as the lunches my grandmother packed me when I was a kid for school. The first time I ever cooked a turkey I was 1000 miles away from anyone I knew. I bought a big turkey, for the two of us, and I wanted to make the dinner like I knew it. I had been on the phone with my mother for two days, her walking me through the casserolles and the prep. I was not a great cook nor did I see the need to cook from scratch when there were boxes and stuff with directions I could follow.

But it was Thanksgiving

I am Southern

I knew that I needed to have a big dinner with the right foods, cooked right and even borrowed china and silver and crystal from his "bachelor" Uncle who we stayed with there.

My mother took me through the entire turkey cooking process. Our phone was cut off later because of this particular bill. HOWEVER. When giving me the instructions, my mother only said "wash the bird real good, then drain it and put it in the pan. She NEVER SAID to take out the giblets or the neck or anything about the inside. I followed her instructions. We found out about it when my husband had eaten the last of the turkey off the rib cage and saw the cooked bag of giblets and neck inside it.

This kind of thing is why I'm for EXPLICIT, even OVERDONE cooking instructions. Now I know what proof the dough, or bring the mixture to the soft ball stage is, but then I did not. Nobody ever showed me that stuff. I had seen other things cooked and knew how, but that did not mean that I knew how to take the giblets out of a turkey or even to do that.

Frances

That's okay.

I think a life skills thread would be beneficial to many here---and I think it is a good idea. I voted the third option about seeing what kinds of things would be presented. As for me however, I have lived 47 years and am used to doing things the way I have always done them. I prefer no change in my skills at this time. But I am sure many would like to participate in this thread.

I disagree. Without an instruction manual how else are you going to learn these things if no one teaches you? You still need actual practice but the manual can give you information on what to do and there may be things you would have never thought of yourself that no one ever bothered to tell you in the manual.

I don't even know how anyone (including me) even survived before the internet. Now every time I need to know or learn something I can do a google search and quickly get info. In the past what would I have done? Walked to the library and hoped I could find a book about it?

Hanyo, my son came home from school with words of wisdom the other day. He said "You what two words every parent needs to learn to answer any question ever? -------- Google it"

Frances

A friend of mine said last year, "google means never having to ask 'I wonder...' again."

My daughter is 9 now and I find I am increasingly having to say an approximation of this answer to her as I simply don't know the correct answer to many of her questions any more!

Hum yes, I didn't follow the "dressed to shoes" things, I didn't do my bed every morning (what's the use for THAT...) and I have never heard of flying barefoot......I'd die in december. Not going anywhere barefoot
I'm willing to try your other system, I'll PM you

In my house we only wear shoes when we go out. I'm more comfortable without shoes, if my feet get too warm they sometimes itch and get tiny blisters on them, plus it's less noisy for your downstairs neighbors if you are barefoot or wearing soft slippers and not stomping around in shoes.

I have tried in the past to take a shower and get dressed every day. That usually doesn't last long.

We never make the bed in my house. You're going to mess it up the next time you sleep so why bother? People aren't going to see it. I don't want people in my room.

I live in the countryside, so the trouble with barefoot is: huge house with frozen stone floors, stairs that you don't really want to trip on, pieces of metal that are supposed to hold the floor boards down, sticking out a bit in places. HUGE spiders. (i think they're wolf spiders. they try to eat you.) centipedes. I think they might be poisonous. It's cold (have I said that? I think so )
And i don't have downstairs neighbours