What's a lost skill that no one seems to remember how to do anymore?

-Digging a hole yourself with a shovel to plant trees and shrubs. Today people use a power planter drill to make holes.
-Watering houseplants by eye (or sticking your finger into the soil) without using a soil moisture meter.
-Diagnosing a tree disease yourself without calling an arborist.
 
Packerjohn said:
Women dressing like women instead of dressing like some working class butch man.

No kidding here! Today I went to a grocery store and followed this person wearing trousers that looked exactly like pajamas. She had this large opened parka and a baseball cap on. I thought this person must be one of those rappers that some many Canadians worship. I didn't know it was a woman until I passed her.
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These days the person you saw might not know shes a woman either. From the language that is used, some people don't seem to know whether they are a she, her, he, him, or a "they" or "them"!
 
charry said:
My husband being an architect with all drawings on CAD now , instead of Drawing Boards ……
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Yup hubby when I met him, his company was still drawing on paper and plastic drawings. By the time the company closed its doors, there were using CAD.

I began doing paper floorplans of houses we'd live in around mid-1960s. By the 80s and the Personal Computers began to pop up, I went to various softwares. My latest was Better Homes Architect. I've over 300 floorplans created from my own imagination from 3 bedrooms to eight bedrooms. With half-in, half-out swimming pools. Big or wee, I did all kinds, hoping to make a bit of spare cash. I might try to revive my backed up work someday...
 
Georgiagranny said:
Shorthand. I still take notes using it.

I don't use a breadmaker and never have.
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Yes! Shorthand... I spend my last two years of secondary education listening to audio tapes transcribing into Shorthand then typing them out. Our regular teacher had taken ill at the beginning of the 4th year and came back at the end of the 5th year. Meantime the replacement teacher divided the class in half, she coached one half, the other half, mine, audio tapes day in day out, yuck!

Ledger accounting work which I studied as I graduated as Bookkeeping Clerk. It's all automated these days with SAGE being the most popular. Never worked in the field but it helped me and hubby to keep to our budget. Latest incarnation is via Google Sheets with my own simple equations, it's magical. I get the same ledger as the printed sheets I get from my bank. Neat!

Finally, hubby bought me a bread machine after seeing me kneading breads a whole weekend for a Christmas together. I loved the convenience of it all but strangely enough they'd never lasted long before they broke. Gave up after third machine.

Adding this bit for fun... People less and less are cooking from scratch! Gosh I remember the looks we've got from shoppers glaring at our cart asking: "You've nothing ready-made in there, why?" We answered: "We've got all the ingredients and we follow the recipes!" It usually got them walking away scratching their heads. Us going "Oomph!" Lol!
 
Supernatural said:
Yes! Shorthand... I spend my last two years of secondary education listening to audio tapes transcribing into Shorthand then typing them out. Our regular teacher had taken ill at the beginning of the 4th year and came back at the end of the 5th year. Meantime the replacement teacher divided the class in half, she coached one half, the other half, mine, audio tapes day in day out, yuck!

Ledger accounting work which I studied as I graduated as Bookkeeping Clerk. It's all automated these days with SAGE being the most popular. Never worked in the field but it helped me and hubby to keep to our budget. Latest incarnation is via Google Sheets with my own simple equations, it's magical. I get the same ledger as the printed sheets I get from my bank. Neat!

Finally, hubby bought me a bread machine after seeing me kneading breads a whole weekend for a Christmas together. I loved the convenience of it all but strangely enough they'd never lasted long before they broke. Gave up after third machine.

Adding this bit for fun... People less and less are cooking from scratch! Gosh I remember the looks we've got from shoppers glaring at our cart asking: "You've nothing ready-made in there, why?" We answered: "We've got all the ingredients and we follow the recipes!" It usually got them walking away scratching their heads. Us going "Oomph!" Lol!
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Me also. Scratch just tastes better.
 
Gaer said:
Well, no one darns socks anymore.
tatting, weaving tapestries,
bread dough ornaments, (Sculpey came along)
macrame
Does anyone tap dance anymore?
the twist, the Charleston, the black bottom,.
art styles: Art Nouveau, Art deco, sign painting (the old fashioned way)
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I still darn socks. :giggle:
 
Crochet and knitting. I love crochet, did my layettes for munchkins and now the ones that have survived are part of trousseau for daughter's future children. I'll probably add a few more when future hubby for her shows up lol!

Daughter is better at knitting, she's currently doing premie babies hats for hospitals. Where I'm good at crochet I'm failure at knitting, it's the contrary for daughter, go figure?
 
chic said:
I still darn socks. :giggle:
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I darn socks, did a macrame dog leash about 4 years ago for neighbour. Cross-stitch tapestries. Golly Gee the needle pains! My cross-stitch days are now done on Android App! No pain but no gain lol...

The attached file is a Christmas candle in progress. Sorry apparently my JPG isn't allowed with that extension. My bad!
 
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