Woodworking/DIY/Home Improvement Mega Thread

[MikeDeTiger]

I did need a refresher on using a machine several years ago--before I did this fix--but gave it to myself to help teach one of my kids how to sew. They are now studying fashion design, and have taught their younger brother how to sew--which he has done to repair and modify some of his things (like, twice, I think).

Don't let the bitter Husker get you down.  Your kids will thank you when losing a button or ripping a seam is not a crisis, or the end of their favorite piece of apparel.  

[FearlessF]

I can reattach a button - that's not sewing

[Drew4UTk]

Yeah, we had a home economics class that had a sewing component. We needed to make a pillow. I made one that looked like a boom box.

(For the youngsters, a "boom box"... Nah, don't have time for that...)

However, all sewing, to the extent that I learned it, has fallen out of my brain now. I can't do any of it.

The one that I do recall is that my mom demanded I take a typing class freshman year of HS. To this day, I thank her for that. I am a very fast typist, and I type *FAR* faster than I can write, and this is important because I'd be in big trouble if my fingers couldn't keep up with my brain, with the amount of writing I do on a computer...

Well.... you've touched on a humorous belief I've long held.  The length of a person's post is directly correlated with how quickly they type.  If the brain and fingers are neck and neck it remains effortless... it causes issue when one lags. This and the following post are the first seemingly agreeing comments I've ever heard about it..

Im the worst for tldr posts, and I'll be the first to share of of grandpa's sayings: grandpa said "boy, of it takes more than a breath to explain the essence of something, there is a fair amount of bull shit present"... he also said "boy, if someone is trying to get an emotional response, theyre trying to manipulate you".... I think I've shared that here, before.

[Cincydawg]

I type pretty fast but never had lessons.  I mistype a fair bit of course and try and correct.  Taking home ec back in the day would have been a sound choice.

It was where the girls were.

[FearlessF]

home Ec was a requirement in the 70s - I sewed together a pillow - learned mostly nothing

[Cincydawg]

I took the minimum in HS to get by, always a study hall, where I at times might do homework, or not.  I was not well prepared for college.

[OrangeAfroMan]

It's 2025 and basic finance isn't a required HS class.
What are we doing?

[Cincydawg]

I think it's better for parents to teach things like "basic finance", realizing often it just doesn't happen.  I recall taking "Health" and "Civics" in HS,  joke classes, nobody learned anything, I fear "finance" would be the same, taught by some coach, regurgitate some "facts", and move along.

But maybe it would help some folks to understand more about credit cards and debt, if a class could help with that, fine with me.  Of course, this is a local decision.

I doubt they have classes like this in Europe in high school.  

[847badgerfan]

It's 2025 and basic finance isn't a required HS class.
What are we doing?

Neither is civics in many states.

"What are we doing" is right.

[FearlessF]

But maybe it would help some folks to understand more about credit cards and debt, if a class could help with that, fine with me.  Of course, this is a local decision.

credit cards and 401K learning would be huge