Use a type writer
Write in cursive, much as I hate doing it
Change a typewriter ribbon
Use a rotary dial phone
Use a mimeograph
Make a mimeograph stencil
Use a party line phone
Be a PBX operator
Make change the correct way
Use carbon paper
Do camera ready graphic design using blue graph board and exacto knife cut designs and fonts
Format camera ready art
Write cursive
Do calligraphy
Write a check correctly
Read a map and orienteer
Use a compass
Use hair pins (not bobby pins!)
Use an ink dip pen
Use a fountain pen
Develop Black and & white film
Wind my own film
Print my own film
Enlarge film
Use an actual cash register (not an electronic one)
Fold a cloth diaper 2 different ways
Load a dot matrix printer with continuous load paper
Tie a square knot, bowline, clove hitch, slip knot, granny knot, friendship knot, etc and know when to use each.
Use a light meter
Use a dutch oven to bake over a campfire
Build 4 kinds of fires and use them correctly
Use a basket corn popper over an open flame
Start a 63 Ford Galaxie station wagon with a screw driver
Use a phone book to make a Christmas tree, seat a child at a table, press flowers and look up a number or find a business or any of the other useful information that was in the phonebook.
Cut a pattern and sew clothes, fix a hem, sew a button on correctly (yes there is a correct way)
Embroider and design the pattern
Use a DOS based program
Use a T square
Make a pompom
Use a nut grinder (not a food processor)
Use a percolator for coffee (although it would be pretty bad.)
Change a phonograph needle
Use a phonograph
Use a card catalogue
Use reel to reel tape or record on
Use or record on a cassette player
Use a floppy disc
Use a punch card
I guess that makes me ready for the zombie apocalypse if you need all those old skills.
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