These are the kinds of skills that should be kept alive. We rely too heavily on manufactured tat these days. What a brilliant pair of shoes. Proper works of art and craft. Kudos all over the place, man.
I'm recharging my voting power at the mo. Will pop back in when I've got some :)
LOL. I have notorious issues with power AND bandwidth as well. Posted about it...
https://steemit.com/steemit/@herrleeb/to-all-my-fellow-truth-seekers-and-friends
Thank you for the compliment! I am an amateur, learned it by myself. Got inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis who also learned how to make them. Kept me busy for a while...Now I don't have the energy anymore.
I agree about the manufactured point you make. I also like quality that lasts for a while and not junk intended to be thrown away quickly.
The other aspect is, that people don't know how to do stuff anymore. I enjoyed fixing my cars, cooking, laying tiles in my apartment, sewing a jacket or making shoes.
Nowadays people don't know how to do anything anymore, every skill is being taken away. You have your Navi in the car, no need to pay attention where you are going.
As Max Igan said it so well, people will soon need an implant to tell them when to scratch their back side.
Cheers to the UK 🙂
Those shoes look far from amateurish though. You'd get a fortune for those if you ever decided to sell. They'll last for a very long time, I'm sure.
Yes, I made a point about people being like babies in my post on surviving a zombie apocalypse. Your shoes inspired me lol.
Same, I learned how to do many things from raw materials. My mum taught me how to make clothes and crochet. She taught me how to knit but that one didn't stick. I also did a cabinet making course (short one) so I can make (very basic) furniture. I also do all the decorating, gardening, cooking, making money. I quickly learned a bit about plumbing when I had a flood :p
These are important things to teach the kids. They're never gonna learn anything useful in school (slave training academy).
Lol, satnav: my phone battery was dying on a long trip to an unfamiliar place. Luckily I had actual pen and paper in my bag and was able to jot down the main city/town names to follow on the motorway signs before it went dead.
Lol @maxigan true :D
cheers
Glad I found you on steemit. We have the same mindset, a dying breed though...
The only positive aspect of what is happening to future generations is that they never know it any other way, they will not even know what they are missing.
And if you think about it...we don't know what WE are missing either.
Maybe we might be much more powerful than we think, we simply never found out?
I'm glad I've found you too.
I worry this is all a plan to make a generation of eunuchs that are incapable of looking after themselves. Dependents. Slaves. Scary.
Yeahhhhh... we ARE the strong ones! If shit goes down, our chances of survival are pretty good, better than the youngers anyway.
Oh, and I came back with my vote. A whole 2-3 cents hahahah Don't spend it all at once, friend :D
LOL. I will spend it on food, don't worry!
But seriously, you don't need to upvote my posts, it's alright with me if you want to save your steem. I am very happy if I get a comment, that already makes my day 🙂
lol you'll starve to death man.
I wanna upvote. Your posts always give good info, fearless info giving. You deserve to be better known than you are.
LOL. I am just a dumb actor who has nobody to talk to. I am using steemit to blow off some steem and have some interaction with like minded people.
I resteemed a great post today. Check it out, you might like it...Sunny Greetings from LA to the UK
https://steemit.com/truth/@lexicographer/thought-of-the-day