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plenty of people are simply abysmal at any form of 'cooking' more complicated than a microwave. the list of skills you could learn that would save you a couple
by sigstoat 16y ago
plenty of people are simply abysmal at any form of 'cooking' more complicated than a microwave. the list of skills you could learn that would save you a couple bucks here and there is far longer than your arm. we can't expect everyone to have every money-saving skill, or the time to actually put them to use.
(yes, everyone eats food so that seems like an 'obvious' one, but everyone also uses indoor plumbing, electricity, has a roof over their head, etc, and i hear far fewer folks suggesting that we all learn roofing.)
- stan_rogers 16y agoFrankly, as an "immigrant" to the big city, I found myself constantly flabbergasted by the things most people couldn't do that we'd just sort of taken as said back in my little Northern Ontario mining community. Hell, I even remember a minor rush on the documents supply trade when someone decided you weren't allowed to wipe your solder joints anymore when plumbing (there wasn't a plumbing code book to be found for miles around for months). Yeah, there was always that guy who couldn't swing a hammer to save his life, but he'd almost always know what to do even if he couldn't do it himself.