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This.

I started driving a tractor at age 6.  I drove a 34' trailer on my 16th birthday.  I drove a loaded trailer to florida and back by myself when I was 17.

things my rich DH didn't know:  that you cut the rotten parts out of food and eat it anyway.  How do to...everything.  How to change a tire and plant a garden.  How to can and preserve food you grew yourself.  Which wild plants you can eat and which are poisonous.  How to hot wire a vehicle.  That you should keep jumper cables in the car and know how to use them.  A thousand other things.

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I would like to see a comprehensive list actually.

I know some of the things you know, but not all.  And I know some different things:

How to kill and dress a chicken.
How to build a fire for warmth when you're half asleep, every morning.
Chopping wood, gardening
Yes, changing a tire, hearing when a car isn't right
Fixing stuff instead of calling tech support or replacing
Not giving up immediately.
Getting shit done in general.[/quote]

A comprehensive list isn’t really possible but I know all those things.  Are you rich?

However, it is 12:42 a.m, and I just finished painting some trim on my home.  I started painting for my dad, who was a construction worker, at the age of 7.  Before that I would be the cleanup person at his job sites when he picked me up from K and first grade.

We grew up with a coal stove and no other heat.  I didn’t have electric or gas heat until I went to college.  A glass of water used to freeze in my bedroom 8n winter.  We slept in army surplus sleeping bags, the ones with a hole for your face only.

When I was 5 some wild dogs came, dug under the fence and slaughtered our chickens. I helped process them.  And later, dozens of deer, beef and pigs.  I have castrated at least 100 pigs personally, and dehorned hundreds of cattle because, while female, I am good with blood and calm in stressful times.  Dehorning is a heck of a day if you haven’t done it.

I can kill an injured animal with a shovel to the neck, and have many times.  I also know how to shoot larger livestock so they don’t suffer.

I need not go on and on I am sure.  I went from hillbilly to Ivy League and was the rare student who went with an entire large box of canned venison so I would have some meat while there....there aren’t many of us.
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Wow.  If you wrote a book about your life I would read it.  If Hollywood made a movie about your life I would watch it.  
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