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kyburgfrodobell:
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sewing is one of those skills everyone with the ability should know IMO. i’ve known too many people who just throw out perfectly servicable clothing and bedding because of tears or buttons that have fallen off and these can be fixed at home. sewing’s not hard either.
sewing, like baking bread, is one of those basic skills that corporations have convinced people is just impossible or too expensive for the average person to do in order to manipulate people into buying things.
i’m not saying sewing is possible for everyone, but if you have motor skills fine enough to, say, replace lead in a mechanical pencil, you can learn to sew, and you can help people who can’t sew. here’s a good guide with gifs.
this is what we mean when we say civilization de-skills us to make us dependent
My despair, let me show you it.
Being able to sew and cook from scratch was not an option for me growing up. It was a dire necessity, and my ‘survived WWII AND the Depression’ Danish mother did it like breathing room air and by association, so did I.
There’s nothing elite about it. Expensive. Difficult. None of that.
Everywhere else in the world I went, I found these skills taught in middle school and proficiency was REQUIRED.
(I could be knitting socks by now. *weeps*)
I am already planning the canning for this summer…to include cherry pie filling, so help me dog. Raw pack plums. Apricot-pineapple jam.
And Cells At Work cosplay for Anime Expo. (Macrophage!)
Just like breathing room air.
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pizzaback:
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sewing is one of those skills everyone with the ability should know IMO. i’ve known too many people who just throw out perfectly servicable clothing and bedding because of tears or buttons that have fallen off and these can be fixed at home. sewing’s not hard either.
sewing, like baking bread, is one of those basic skills that corporations have convinced people is just impossible or too expensive for the average person to do in order to manipulate people into buying things.
i’m not saying sewing is possible for everyone, but if you have motor skills fine enough to, say, replace lead in a mechanical pencil, you can learn to sew, and you can help people who can’t sew. here’s a good guide with gifs.
this is what we mean when we say civilization de-skills us to make us dependent
My despair, let me show you it.
Being able to sew and cook from scratch was not an option for me growing up. It was a dire necessity, and my ‘survived WWII AND the Depression’ Danish mother did it like breathing room air and by association, so did I.
There’s nothing elite about it. Expensive. Difficult. None of that.
Everywhere else in the world I went, I found these skills taught in middle school and proficiency was REQUIRED.
(I could be knitting socks by now. *weeps*)
I am already planning the canning for this summer…to include cherry pie filling, so help me dog. Raw pack plums. Apricot-pineapple jam.
And Cells At Work cosplay for Anime Expo. (Macrophage!)
Just like breathing room air.
https://ift.tt/eA8V8J
from Tumblr http://bit.ly/2Dva9Q0
via IFTTT
