An Offer/JMIT Babble

[debka_notion]

(Because I'm a Jewish Mother In Training) I'm noticing a distinct lack of household skills in a number of folks I know, of late- in things that I always thought of as really basic: cleaning, cooking, basic mending (sewing buttons). I feel like I should offer some sort of basic hosuekeeping lessons for a number of my friends. Today I gave a basic demonstration of resewing buttons. As far as I know, this is something I learned from my mother before I started high school, possibly before middle school. Certainly she started me sewing "straight" lines around age 6- it was a real treat too, because we could only sew with her supervision, so when she made the time to do so, it was very exciting. I've been cleaning for longer than that: it isn't hard, you just keep scrubbing, unless you're doing walls or something like that.

If anyone is interested in lessons or the like- aka, chances to get help mending or making pleasing food, let me know.


Outside of that, I had a quiet day- slept in, called home, did work, editted Hebrew: all the usual Sunday stuff. Life continues.

Comments

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Interesting -- I learned all of these things in Home Ec. in middle school, which has always been my indication that home ec. is a useful thing. I suspect that part of the problem is that there's just no way to learn things like that unless someone teaches it to you.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I learned them all from my mom, and then we did them again in life skills, which was my middle school's version of Home Ec. Except for buttons, which I would think would be one of the more obvious sewing skills- instead they had us make oddly shaped pillows- mine was a watermelon. Ahh, well: it was good practice for me, at least.