This is a big, giant list of Youtube tutorials that will teach you all the basic life skills you need to know in order to be a functional adult. There are a lot of important skills that aren’t included in this list, but this should be enough of a basic guide to get you started and prevent you from making a total mess of yourself. Happy adulting!
Household Skills:How to unclog a toilet without a plunger
How to clean soap scum from your tub and shower
How to escape from a house fire
How to make a budget and stick to it
How to clean a self-cleaning oven
How to clean red wine stains from carpet
How to clean blood stains from fabric
How to clean grease stains from fabric
How to test your smoke detectors
Cooking Skills:
How to tell if produce is ripe
How to know if food is expired
How to properly sanitize a kitchen
How to put out a kitchen grease fire safely
How to use kitchen knives properly
How to make grilled cheese sandwiches
Health Skills:
How to help someone who is choking
How to save yourself if you are choking alone
How to recognize when someone is having a stroke
How to maintain a healthy sleep schedule
Mental Health Skills:
How to calm down during a panic attack
How to help someone who is suicidal
How to recognize problem drinking
How to deal with disappointment
Relationship and Social Skills:
How to recognize an abusive relationship
How to rekindle a damaged friendship
Job Hunting Skills:
How to dress for a job interview (for women/femmes)
How to dress for a job interview (for men/masculines)
Other Skills:
If there’s ever anything you want that isn’t on this list…youtube it. Everyone always comments on my handiness, but everything I know comes from an old guy and his iphone.
On this day, 30 August 1917, striking horse driver Merv Flanagan was killed by a scab in Camperdown, NSW, during the Australian general strike. Reginald James Wearne, the brother of a Conservative politician, was one of an army of mostly middle rural scabs brought in to break the strike. When Flanagan saw Wearne pointing a gun at his fellow strikers, he tackled Wearne, who then shot and killed him. Wearne then shot another striker, Henry Williams, in the leg. Perversely, charges against Wearne were dropped but Williams and Merv’s brother were both imprisoned for picketing. Thousands of people came to his funeral (pictured).
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Because I can rarely pass up a #hellboy, and never one by his creator @artofmm.
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There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.
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| — | Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia (via philosophybits) |
@knitmeapony suggested this one, but due to tamblr formatting reasons we couldn’t share the direct suggestion. Anyways it was such a good phrase and we hope y’all enjoy!
Helioforge: DIY Self-Replicating Solar Forge
The Helioforge project is an open source effort to create accessible designs for self-replicating solar kilns and hydrogen crackers that utilize readily available resources. Our goal is to produce a entire catalog of open source devices and designs for DIY self-replicable solar forges that utilize common materials. If we succeed in our mission, it will be possible to manufacture any number of products at home using ubiquitous materials like sand, sun and water, and/or recycled polymers.
This website hasn’t been updated in quite some time, but the designs are open-source and ready to be picked up and developed further
npr:
Knowing what to recycle is confusing. And with 11,000 recycling programs in the U.S., it varies from one community to the next. Learn more with our interactive feature.
Plastics: What’s Recyclable, And What Becomes Trash
Photo: Meredith Rizzo/NPR
