100 Things Everyone Should be Able to Do

[lunamoth]

I got this idea from a blog I recently read about a book by the same name.

So, RFers, what's on our list of 100 essential life skills?

I'll start with:

1. Balance your checkbook
2. Change a diaper

 

[Revoltingest]

3) Cook bacon.....& enuf of the lesser foods necessary for survival.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

4. Change a car tire
5. Jump-start a car

 

[bobhikes]

6) Believe in yourself
7) say I love you to at least one other person.

 

[Rakhel]

8. Wash clothes
9. Read a map

 

[Revoltingest]

10) Plunge a toilet bowl

(This landlord is amazed how rare this skill is.)

 

[Iti oj]

11. use a screw driver

 

[Revoltingest]

12) Perform basic arithmetic functions quickly & accurately.

 

[Kathryn]

12) a - Without a calculator

12) b - Using fingers and toes if necessary, without shame.

13) Read and write at a 12th grade level (if you've graduated from high school).

 

[Panda]

14) Be able to name a fair proportion of the countries (at least 50) and be able to mark them on a globe

15) Be able to do a simple system restore on a computer (providing you own one)

16) Have at least a basic understanding of the concepts of electricity (you use it all the time, you should at least know something about it!).

 

[Revoltingest]

17) Have a good working knowledge of one's language, eg, spelling, grammar, idioms.

 

[Draka]

18) Perform a basic oil change and tune up on your vehicle

19) Be able to marry another consenting adult one is in love with without restriction and judgement of others. (yeah, slipped that in I did, deal with it)

20) Know basic cooking practices.

21) Clean up after yourself.

 

[Panda]

22) Live without the internet, phone, computer etc for at least a weekend.

 

[Revoltingest]

23) Both tell & take a joke.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

14) Be able to name a fair proportion of the countries (at least 50) and be able to mark them on a globe

Yakko Warner helped me with that.

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16) Have at least a basic understanding of the concepts of electricity (you use it all the time, you should at least know something about it!).

Further to this and number 5, I once helped one of my college roommates jump-start his car. I had one end of the cables, he had the other. He'd never done it before, so I was talking him through it.

I told him to put one of the clamps on a chassis ground. He pointed to the rubber bump stop for the hood and said "you mean like this?"

I could understand someone not knowing which metal part of a car is a good ground or not, but I couldn't understand someone not knowing that rubber doesn't conduct electricity.

 

[Revoltingest]

24) Be able to read & understand basic legal documents, eg, leases, purchase/sale agreements, wills, trusts.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

25. Build a fire.

 

[idea]

26. smile

 

[Rakhel]

27. know where the nearest hospital is

 

[Revoltingest]

28) Know when to persevere, but also know when to become a quitter.