“Is It Adulting If You Can’t Do It?”: Rate 26 Adult Life Skills In This Poll

Sometimes I don't understand what people think when they pack packages. The latest example was a used console game that came in the mail and a couple of kitchen tissue papers were used to protect it from impacts. The case was completely smashed and that resulted in a return and refund hassle. Hopefully this person now understands the importance of sensible packaging.

screw that.

I am a single dad. But I can walk to the store and usually buy whatever I'm gonna make that day on my way to pickup the kiddos from school. I also tend to make enough so there are leftovers for my lunch the next day. I work from home, so it's ready to do.

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If I didn’t I’d starve, I live alone 😃

i can, i want BUT...🤦‍♂️

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I am super particular about washing clothes. As a result, my clothes last a long time.

Eh? Adult? I knew how to work a washing machine long before I *started* high school (they were quite exciting things back then). Repairing one? That took a bit longer.

Pre-teenage kids should be able to do this

At work, someone washed a resident's suede jacket at 70 C (160 F). The liner wasn't affected. Would've loved to retain it as an 'agnostic ghost story' but the family reclaimed it.

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Easy. First you're going to want to prevent potential infection, so get that meat clever and amputate the hand before germs from the cut spread into the blood. Now you've got to stop the bleeding. Cauterize the wound using the stove top. If it's a gas stove, just heat the clever over the flames until it's red hot. Otherwise you can just place the stump directly on the electric stove surface. Finally, don't forget to save the severed hand. It can be used to make any number of decorative items for the home. I like to fashion them into candy dishes by curling the fingers into a bowl shape before rigor sets in. Happy Halloween

I know the steps but I'd just probably panic, completely useless!

Easy. Spray the entire wound with ethanol-based hand spray to k**l the bacteria. Then wrap it several times with paper towel. Then wrap that in gaffer tape to keep it all in place... yes, I'm being sarcastic. What you do depends upon the severity of the cut - whether to whack a bandage onto it, or to go to ER. I poked my hand a while back peeling potatoes so I did the ethanol spray/paper towels to clean the wound and then put an elastoplast onto it. When I was young, a neighbour cut her hand cleaning a glass that broke and she runs over, bangs on our door, asks mom if it's bad - one of her shoes was full of blood and there was a trail of blood on the ground and she was about ready to pass out (so, yeah, we chucked her in the car and straight to hospital while I pressed her hand, held high, with a towel). I think the main thing to know is not *how* to do first aid, but to know *when* you need to go to hospital because first basic aid won't be enough.

I do tend to be a bit old fashioned with iodine and rubbing alcohol though. Neosporin is for the weak.

Should be able to - yes, actually able to - ehhhhh.

Self care for me is a joint and a six pack of beer. So no I do not self care well.

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Practice it, sure, but first you'll need to tell me exactly what it means, as it's presumably not just literally what it says.

If I can be bothered lol

I know *how* to read the T&Cs - but who's got the time for that? Just assume that the company's behaving appallingly, don't post anything personal or incriminating, set privacy to max and - yeah, *I* control my behaviour, not some blo*dy nagging machine. 🧐

You ought to have an answer - why the heck would I make a social media account?

Absolutely yes, but the flaw is in "You’ve just made a new social media account." I have? Since when? As for Ts&Cs, I don't bother reading as I would get annoyed by all the s**t they're trying to pull that's somewhere between dubious and unlawful. I just assume they're scum and that they'll be selling me, my data, and anything they dream up about me as soon as they can. I take measures on my end to block cookies, adverts, third party scripts, etc etc because I'm absolutely not trusting them to act in a responsible manner - look at how BP panders to advertisers, for example.

Negative. I have no social media accounts, but lots of friends. Real, face-to-face friends. I only use WhatsApp to avoid LD phone calls and for instant messaging. I can barely navigate FB, Reddit, etc., but hate the ads so I don't go much.

Pass never used to pic social media never intend to thank you got to 60 never using it int about to start now !

Heh. I was a kid in the UK in the 1970s. Oh yes I know about power cuts. Just go out to the garage and get the camping stove, lights, and so on indoors. Oh? What, you mean it's not currently the 1970s and I'm actually living hundreds of miles away from that resource? Umm... 🤣 Well, we've got candles and whatnot...

Another easy one. Burn your neighbors for warmth and light. Just make sure you use a fire pit, and clear the area of any dry foliage. I like to keep a large metal drum outside my home for these events. Also don't forget to make s'mores, so it's fun for the kids.

I live in South Africa. So even small kids know how to handle it!

Absolutely; my family and I still keep candles in our home, among other considerations related to losing power!

Gas stove for making tea, gas lantern, candles, and a good old actual Tilley lamp. Plus there's a battery backup for the internet that'll do about half an hour or so, I'm writing this on a notebook PC that'll give me 5-6 hours, and I have charged battery packs that I can use to keep my phone alive. My primary concern with an extended power cut is all the stuff in the freezer. If it is planned (as was when they changed the high tension switch in the middle of the field), I can put the freezer in force-run mode for a few hours, drop the internal temperature to ~ -26C and just leave it alone. If unplanned, then what I do depends upon the severity of the problem. I haven't, in my quarter century here, lost power for more than a few hours (even after storms). The longest fault was when two of the three phases were running at about 90V instead of 230V and they had to come out, check that was correct, then cut off all the power in the area to find out why. [continues]

If I had to. But I generally just bleat for Mr Auntriarch. I was going to call him my favourite multi tool but that's open to misinterpretation. Swiss army husband?

I have my own tools in my own toolboxes and no you cannot borrow them!

If I don't do it, nobody else will.

Using a hammer to fix a wobbly cupboard...yeah, no

Yeah that one is easy.

Yes but I would also be carrying a backup battery and an actual compass. $20 worth of gear that could save your life.

An adult should know how to orientate themselves indeed, but I can't, I don't even know how to use a compass. I'd be dead in a day.

If you're in the upper part of the northern hemisphere, learn how to recognise The Big Dipper (Ursa Major). It's a very prominent soup ladle in the sky. Once you have located it, make an imaginary line between the two stars opposite the handle. Continue that line, maybe five or six times further - keep going until you hit a bright star. That's Polaris, and that's North. I've just thrown together an annotated picture to show you what I mean. These were the positions as of 7am this morning just before the sky started to get light. polaris-68...7-jpeg.jpg

You should know, if you are planning on hiking anywhere, but many people never will, so no need for the skill.

My maps still have folds