What skills have been lost

[burnie]

Most wild flowers over here do better in poorer soil, you could sow them and then start bee keeping.

[DWSmith]

I keep bees now.

[Snoop Puss]

How about keeping some sheep? At least you'd get the muck even if you didn't bother with lambs...

[KevinM67]

Ah good - a thread by 'older' folks knocking 'younger' folk.

With regards to writing and mental maths/arithmetic - let's bust this myth now, the levels of numeracy and literacy of our younger citizens are way higher than any of their forefathers/ mothers ever achieved. That's without using computers, calculators, smartphone, etc.

[Snoop Puss]

Hi Kevin, I've had a look back over this thread. Sure, there are a couple of posts about young people. I talk about handwriting, yes, but my handwriting, not the younger generation's.

Most of the posts lament our 'throw-away society' and the loss of skills that hardly anyone needs let alone uses today. Can't be much call for deer butchering in London, for example, except among specialist circles. As for the throw-away society, I'd say that was started by people with more money than long-term sense. And young people can't be blamed for that.

[KevinM67]

I was told today that my shirt should be binned as the collar was badly worn (I use it in the garden, or when its the first one I can put my hands on) I suggested that she turns the collar, as this is what women used to do

Is this a skill YOU have lost, or did you never learn it in the first place.

[veggiechicken]

Nice to see another oldie back, Kelvin
I told you so, rary

[greenishfing]

Many years ago I was taught to crochet, embroider and tat by some of my older relatives. I think these are just about "lost skills" now. I've certainly never passed them on. I wouldn't inflict them on anyone else ............but then all I wanted as a little girl was a meccano set (inappropriate at the time)

[rary]

Is this a skill YOU have lost, or did you never learn it in the first place.

Thats womans work (Will now stand back and avoid the flack)

[rary]

Is this a skill YOU have lost, or did you never learn it in the first place.

On a more serious note I do know how to turn a shirt collar and have done so in the past, and any sewing to be done in the house both my wife and I will do it and its by hand as we do not have a sewing machine, but then hand sewing was a skill before machines were invented and its not the young folk that I think are responsible for the skills to be lost it each and every one of us who throw a perfectly good shirt away and go and buy a new one, you can put anything in place of the shirt, and as for the counting most folk have experienced when a person had to use a machine to check the counting as they are losing the skill of mental arithmetic, and to say that this thread is knocking younger folk you surly don't want me to knock the older folk as most of the ones older than me are dead, I hope that if you have a skill you try to pass it on so that its not lost

[veggiechicken]

I don't usually agree with you rary, but on this occasion, I will - that's the bit about older folk than you being no longer with us!!
As for Kelvin, he's a cheeky little whippersnapper and a stirrer

[rary]

No VC the young are entitled to their opinion Just as long as they keep it to themselves

[rary]

VC I just read what you posted there, that's an other skill that's going the way of the other ones "the backhanded compliment"

[JanieB]

Hmmmh! We have a local group who hold craft meetings. This involves people of all ages. I have been asked to join them and teach the younger ones one of the skills that I have. I need to pick one. Knitting springs to mind. What it shows is that younger people are interested in keeping these abilities alive.

[Nicos]

At school we were taught country dancing...I wonder how many traditional dances like that are being 'forgotten' by the general population?