People Share 40 Basic Things Everyone Should Know How To Do (But Apparently, Many Don’t)

At least the president should have these qualities.

Not actually that basic lol

This is more difficult for those with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

I agree, but what with propaganda, AI, groupthink, and media bias, how do we ever get to see all sides of an argument? I never forget the 'scientific' reports from the 50's and 60's that blamed obesity on fats in foods; turns out the reports and research was done by scientists who were paid well ... by the sugar industry. So again, how can we possibly know what sources are legitimate?

This is becoming incredibly time consuming. You have to research what are legitimate sources, and then research what fact checkers are unbiased and legitimate, and then research of those are legitimate. It goes on and on. There's too much AI. The best one can do is what various news programs, and news around the world. Interestingly, how one country presents a topic, another country will report it different.

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You realise what your describing is EDUCATION? That's a rather low bar, given we reached that state decades ago, no?

True that. Learned budget making at over 30. Zero debt now, because your money is the one with no extra cost. Yes we needed to go low budget to pay our debts but it's so worth it

Every one knows how to do it save you have to work 2 jobs just to get by nowadays. You can budget all you like, if there's not enough money that's a useless skill.

It's not a question of knowing how, it's a question of actually getting up off your a**e and doing it.

How to use a checking account properly, and when to pass on credit cards.

I'm 71 and my mum would say you should be able to sew on a button so I learned. More importantly, it was the mid 60's and I was a teenager and my mum would iron my flares flat on the board with the material sticking out sideways. Hence I very quickly learnt how to iron! My mum wasn't stupid.

I remember growing up in the 50s watching my mother darning socks.

The sad thing is that many people just throw away clothing with a little hole or a torn off button. People really don't value things as much as they should.

That should almost be mandatory for every one who has a kid

Australian schools have swimming classes (I think about 12 a year) in primary schools, and my high school also had mandatory ones in year 7 as well. This has helped with drowning statistics. There is also a program called 'Kids Alive' with five things every parent should do; fence any pool (this is mandatory anyway), make sure gate is closed, teach kids to swim, supervise children around water all the time, and learn how to do cpr.

I drowned as a toddler. I freak out putting my head underwater in the bath to rinse my hair. So, nope. I've made it to fifty one without needing to know how to swim and I have exactly zero plans to change that...

Please don't shame me for not knowing how to swim. I try so hard. I love being in the water as long as the water is salty enough, lakes are a no-no for me. At least I know hot to float if I get into trouble and I can even do something with my limbs to move forward a little.

And please don't barge into an elevator without letting the people already inside get out first. Thank you.

This should be higher and something we adopt as people of the U.S. Not just saying it and still being an a-hole. We used to value those characteristics in people and it's all gone.

Also to control one's anger.

I speak some Japanese, but even then I couldn't find a way: The situation was, I came in as a walk-in to a pottery studio and asked if they had times available on the same day for cup making experience. They did not. The owner apologized me way too deep for me not pre booking. I tried to apologize for the bother and for not checking before hand. The apology got worse on the owner side and saying "it's ok" and fleeing the scene was the only thing I could think of

The problem is people tie the apology to changing. People can't magically change. An apology is recognition of a mistake but in no way means that I won't repeat the mistake in the future. It takes practice to change one's ways.

But everyone thinks they have them both in spades.

Here YouTube is your friend. Changed the leaky fridge insulation with an actual help video from the fridge company

When my siblings and myself moved out of the house where we grew up, my dad gave us each some simple tools - pliers, screwdrivers, wrenches, hammer - and made sure we knew how to use them.

Basic first aid is essential

Just remember to bash the b@stard. If you aren't risking breaking bones, you aren't doing it right. The heart is huge and pulses greatly as it's literally squeezing blood through you, but you don't see and barely feel any of that on a person's chest because there's so much padding and protection in the way. If you're going to shove the heart yourself, you need to press *HARD*, and *FAST*. I've seen too many times in first aid courses that people that have an idea of what to do do it way to slowly and softly. Look at it like this, if the person screams at you for breaking their ribs, that means they didn't die so you did it right.

Some times I will make a mistake with these words. It doesn't mean I don't know the difference, my brain is just working too fast, and I overlook it. I always proof read though, and I usually catch it. I can totally get past this though as long as the person is at least attempting to use punctuation where a paragraph isn't one long sentence.

Or when people say Pacifically and not Specifically.....Grrrr!

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My pet peeve!

@Al Gebruh: You seem to be a quiet unsympathetic person. Sometimes it´s ok to hold your tongue, if you can´t say something nice, or at least not something to judgemental or offensive. You must have the impression/feeling you stand relatively high above (most) others. That degrades your external impression to a level you might find hard to restore. Or you just don´t want/need social contact. It´s easy to be rude online, isn´t it. I wonder if you act the same in "real life"? If so, you probably are a lonely person.

It sometimes amuses me that those who use english as a second, third or fourth language really rarely make these mistakes. I guess that when earning a language from scratch at school you really focus on writing correctly, and mostly these words come in really early in your education. Of course we make mistakes too, but these words are in the basic layer of our English learning that it's hard to mess them.

You can be social online still. So much of my family is still on Facebook, but they're there to talk to relatives and to show holiday photos. Not exciting, but real

Interesting thought. Especially when using a social network platform for expressing it.

Yup, though acknowledging this here is its own special sort of irony. ;)