I suppose it would be mostly practical skills, cooking, fixing things. Usually had to be done by people themselves.
Maybe also mental things like navigating (with or without paper map) and remembering their daily and weekly agendas.
What other things would be a big difference with the people today?
Operating a slide rule. Managing a menstruation belt. Navigating adult life without having your own bank account (if you were a woman in the US). Mending clothes, ironing clothes, making clothes.
I gotta ask, menstruation belt?
Before adhesive pads were invented to stick to your underwear, you had to wear a climbing harness and use safety pins to keep your pad in place.
This seems like a skill that deserves to die. Adhesive pads, cups, tampons, etc. seem way better.
Oh wow, thanks for the reply and TIL!!!
I remember seeing this among my grandma’s belongings when I was a kid. It was… grimy.
I didn’t have the faintest idea what it was.
Oh dear…
TIL!
The slide rule thing is real. Some of those guys didn’t move to calculators when they came out because they could use them faster than typing.