What skills has YouTube taught you?

[Anonymous]

I've learned how to disassemble an IKEA bed, fix the dishwasher, remove dresser drawers from their sliding mechanisms, change the car's in-cabin filter and remove sliding windows from their frame for cleaning.

How about you?

[Anonymous]

Several knitting stitches
How to replace a broken backlight on my car
How to install a new bathroom faucet
How to replace the wax ring under the toilet

[Anonymous]

How to find transcripts. I can’t stand videos.

[Anonymous]

Fix my tennis toss
Use my vacuum cleaner

[Anonymous]

Fix lots of things:
Replace light bulbs in cars in hard to get to places
Refrigerator
Took apart dryer to fix (pics are hilarious of the thing all over our bedroom)

Renovation things:
Changed an old ugly brick fireplace to a stacked stone fireplace
Fully renovated a half bath (thin-set, tile, grout the floor, pull out and replace toilet and vanity, new faucet, mirror, lights, and new baseboards and trim)

I'm sure there's more, but many things we used to hire out, we now do ourselves.

[Anonymous]

That people will pay to watch me paint my toes.

[Anonymous]

It's great for crochet stitches.

I've learned a lot about cooking from Youtube.

[Anonymous]

So many crafty things----knitting techniques, crochet, sewing.

[Anonymous]

That I'm way too impatient to watch a dumbed down video on something that doesn't get immediately to the point. I skip the videos and look for instruction/text to scan quickly.

[Anonymous]

Lots of basic car and house repair things. Little things I didn’t want to pay for and thought if I break, I’d have to call someone to pay anyway.

Changing out parts on the car, how to do an oil change, front door combination lock that was more complicated than it looked, replacing bathroom ventilation fans, things like that.

[Anonymous]

8:38 again and I forgot, all of the stuff for my kids. When DS was young, how to tie all of the fishing knots and thread a reel and actually cast so we could go. It was super helpful for fishing. I was frequently one of the few moms at cub scouts and had to study YouTube before a lot of our outings.

[Anonymous]

Cooking
Parenting
Understanding other cultures and viewpoints other than my own
How to be a better person in general

[Anonymous]

How to shuffle dance. Braid my daughter’s hair in elaborate styles. Fix the garbage disposal. Recaulk around the bathroom tiles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That I'm way too impatient to watch a dumbed down video on something that doesn't get immediately to the point. I skip the videos and look for instruction/text to scan quickly.

+1, I would always rather read an instructable or something.

But I've used YouTube to learn how to change my car headlamps, make bread, cut my own hair, and fix the shower drain.

[Anonymous]

I watch demonstrations of new board games rather than read confusing rules on paper first time through.