People born before 1990 - what handy skill do you have that no one uses anymore?

@calicuz I should be easy to find. I painted a big red x on my roof so the missiles hit here early on.

@Mamapolo2016 Well, this morning, I brushed my teeth manually, and later hung my washing out on the line! (Though my washing-machine is a modern automatic.)

@ArishMell Every little bit helps!

@HumanEarth Do you remember full service gas stations?

@Barefooter25 yes, but barely. But in New Jersey its a state law that they must have full service gas stations. If you go to New Jersey today and tried to pump your own gas, you could end up in trouble with the law

@HumanEarth I did not know that!!! In just about every state, most gas stations are self service.

@DrWatson Yes !

@Adstar maybe you were an exception not everyone from your time knew how to add and subtract with the technology today and educational opportunities more kids are smarter than what they used to be

@Monalisasmith86 No i was not the exception..When i was young if you went to a shop you would not find a person behind the counter who could not do mental arithmetic..

For example: Lets say the charge was $20:65 and i have a $50 note and i have 65 cents .. I give the young girl at the counter $50:65 because it gets rid of some silver change and i will get $30 back two crisp notes and zero change.. The girl at the counter looks at the money with a bamboozled look, looks at me as if i am a brain dead moron.. Puts the 65 cents down on the counter and rings up the 50 dollars and grabs the $29.35 change out of the draw and picks up the 65cents i gave her and hands it all back to me.. Variations of this have happened to me at a lot of different stores..

Another common example.. I have got a lot of silver change.. I go to a store and buy a $3:80 product.. I hand over $3:80 silver to the guy at the counter.. He looks at the hand full of silver with a dumbfounded bewildered look. Looks up at me and asks how much i have given him.. I tell him $3:80.. And because he cannot count it up in his head he has to trust me and he rings that payment into the machine and says thank you sir.. I could have paid him $2:30 and he would not have had any idea if i had lied to him.. Again i have experienced this type of situation more then a few times..

@Adstar they must have been faking it

@GnomeyGee perfect answer

@bijouxbroussard That's LX years ago!

@craig7 Indeed it was. 😊

@jackson55 That saves a lot of money I'm sure. My dad used to always be fixing things - we were too poor for anything else.

@WifeTanya I'm constantly surprised whenever somebody at a store pays in cash. I have to be reminded cash exists at this point.

@LordShadowfire cash is better. Helps control spending and makes you less susceptible to identity theft.
Plus you can't haggle for deals as easily with card or get cash discounts.

Plus it's just weird to me when people try and charge $3 or get mad about minimum purchases for credit. Like $5-$10 minimum is pretty standard and expected for check or charge purchase

@LordShadowfire I was taught it, and now I don't really do any writing anymore, other than notes and lists ...

Everything is electronic and typing now.

@sstronaut I know it is. But I think that's because youngsters don't know the joy of calligraphy.

I could be wrong.

@LordShadowfire I don't think they're teaching calligraphy, just the bare bone basics of cursive (if that).

@LordShadowfire I never had much luck doing that, as soon as I let go of the antenna, picture got fuzzy.

The fun thing was once everything worked and we got comfy, the screen would start to roll.

@Allelse I saw a garfield comic once where John said something about how TV will never replace newspapers, and Garfield says, "Yeah, have you ever tried to swat a fly with a TV?"

@HoeBag It'd be easier to kill a fly using a tv today, than back in the day, they used to be heavy as fuck.