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[quote=Anonymous]heh.  my parents taught me all kinds of stuff but I am still disproportionately intimidated by stuff they didn't teach us, like:
- financial planning
- household repairs (just basic stuff that most people do themselves, I have ended up paying people to do - like snaking drains or patching up drywall or caulking the tub.   it totally weirded out the handyman when I asked him to show me how to do stuff.  superawkward.  i have since resorted to youtube but you can't ask youtube dumb questions.
 - things we stopped doing as a family early on.  like, we used to all go sailing and fishing together.  so, i have some basic competence in small tasks that i learned how to do when i was like 8 - i can bait a hook and tie some knots and cast a rod, and know what some of the parts are called on a boat.  but i had my own interests by the time i was a teenager and so, i never really learned how to navigate.  or what bait/lure to use where and when.  and i certainly wouldn't be competent to sail on my own.  anyway, i realize there are probably classes where i could learn all of those things.  but it kinda sucks that my parents were so awesome at it!  And i know nothing![/quote]

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