Will sent me a link about Obsolete Skills I was fascinated. I deleted about half of them, mainly the tekkie ones. AND the one about Cave Wall Painting. Huh! I certainly don’t go that far back! 😡
I hope I cut all the repeats, but I have done all of these 109 things at least once!!
Now if my list is not enough you can always go back to the Blog Post.
Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV
Adjusting a television’s horizontal and vertical holds
Adjusting a television’s color and hue adjustments
Analogue radio listening and tuning in
Calculating a square root using pencil and paper
Cash Register used manually entering the prices
Changing the ball or ribbon on your Selectric Typewriter
Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
Clicking on the up and down arrows of a vertical scrollbar
Operate a credit card imprinter (click-clack)
Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set?
Getting to know your neighbors?
Going outside? (instead of editing pointless Wikis) 😆
Having your gas pumped for you and your oil checked at a full-service gas station
Knowing what part of town someone lives in by their phone exchange
Loading a reel to reel tape drive
Look for a job in the classifieds
Looking up a business on the yellow pages
Making an operator assisted phone call
Making change in shillings and pence
Manually loading ink on a fountain pen from an bottle
Memorizing Multiplication Tables
Mailing in the order form of a catalog?
Operating an agitator washing machine and clothes ringer
Operating an Overhead Projector
Peeling the developer layer off a Polaroid?
Peeling back a lid from an sardine can with a key?
Putting a needle on a vinyl record
Reading a dictionary or encyclopedia
Reckoning arithmetic without aid?
Repairing small appliances? (replaced element in the Iron)
Rewinding an audio cassette using a Bic pen*
Ripping the little holes off the sides of the computer paper
Selling something in the Classified Ads?
Starting a car that has a manual choke
Operating a Treadle Sewing Machine
Untangling the cord of a telephone?
Using a manual choke in cold weather
Using carbon paper to make copies
Using a mangle to dry clothes?
Washing clothes with a washboard?
Watching a slide show with a slide projector
Winding up loose cassette tape with a pencil eraser before putting the cassette in the deck
Worrying about important things?
Writing email whilst offline and going online to send
Writing using a dip pen and powder to dry up the ink?
Impressive list grannymar~I might just give this ago for fun 🙂
Does using a corkscrew count? 😉
Enjoy the day, Grannymar
I had guests for dinner last night and the menu consisted of:
Grannymar’s Chicken Portella with wild rice and naan bread
followed by
Grannymar’s Chocolate Cake
It was wicked! And you’re now famous 😀
Hand-cranking a car and starting it with a manual choke – I remember all that oh so well! What a relief it was when modern ignition systems were invented and you could rely on starting the thing. Standing in the freezing cold frantically turning a whacking great iron thing sounds unreal now.
Chris – that should keep you quiet for an hour!
Steph _ What did you cook before Grannymar 😕
I’m having a Toyboy for dinner tonight!! 😉
Nick – I know someone who lost their front teeth when a hand-cranking starter flew back and hit him!
Answer: Entertaining is much more fun when you have a new dish to show-off!
btw Do you like your Toyboys rare, medium or well-matured? 😉
Grannymar,
I also have done most of the things on the list, including using a pay toilet.
I remember that years ago at Heathrow they had regular pay toilets that were free but then they also had the SUPER LOO which cost 10p. I usually sprung for the SUPER LOO because it was huge compared to the free booth. Oh, yes, I was a big spender……
Anyone else remember the SUPER LOO?
Now Steph, Toyboys rare, medium or well-matured? I’ll tell you tomorrow night! 😉
Nancy for 10p I’d hold on to it! Seriously I never heard of the SUPER LOO.
Oh dear, Grannymar,
I fear your list is obsolete.
Vinyl records are making a comeback – a million new ones sold in the UK last year – and the hundred odd members of our Scout Group learn compass work as part of their hiking (How else do you find your way in wild country or on cloudy nights?)
The compiler really should keep up with the times! 😉
Well I must be an antique. The only two things I have not done on this list is sharpen a quill for writing and wear a girdle.
Untangling the cord of a telephone, made me laugh. We had a great long cord on the kitchen phone and when you answered it and tried to walk away the handset would be ripped out of your hand because the cord was all tangled up in its self. 🙂
Ian, thank you for keeping me up to date.
Brian, those old telephone cords were a nuicence. Now we have no cords to worry about but keep losing the phone! You can’t win.
Believe it or not, I have done all but 2-3 of those. I even hand-cranked a car once or twice, because my boyfriend’s dad had a very old (1920’s) convertible touring car and he took it out once or twice a year.
I have done enough of the things on your lest to make me feel a bit depressed. lol
Looking at your list – TV remote is an added optional gizmo here – requiring deposit !
Clearly I too live in the dark ages and use a fax machine every day, am constantly twiddling with my phone line and whip cream with a whisk. Paying with cash! That’s how you get the bargains! Hang on, I have to go and percolate some coffee!
Judy, Betty, Quickroute and Baino I am only surfacing not from all the excitement of the weekend. Still in Dublin and think I will travel home tomorrow.