Beyond Selidor

I think wiring, maybe? When putting in a new ceiling light, there's a degree of wiring involved, and I have no clue how to do it. I'm not a particular fan of ceiling lights to begin with, so when I was faced with this issue in my first flat in Copenhagen, I just... bought only floor lamps or table lamps to light the place. I lived like that for six years, lol. Still, it seems like a useful thing to know.

I have pretty solid and rounded set of life skills, from baking to sewing to cooking to cleaning to mending things - I even learned how to change a car tyre as a child, helping my dad change tyres on our car every season (and ones that had blown, on the roadside). I don't drive so dunno when I would ever need this skill, but hey, if I'm in your car and your tyre blows, I can change it for you so long as you have the tools and a spare. I can build things too, and I don't mean just IKEA furniture - I have built furniture from scratch. I know how to paint a room and put up wallpaper and how to tile a floor and all (or many) manners of home renovation things. We moved a lot when I was a kid, and so I've been involved in home renovations from a young age.

My parents are also both excellent cooks and bakers and let us help in the kitchen from when we were little, and they both sew and mend clothes. My dad taught me how to hem jeans (like me, he has short legs and always has to take up the hem on new trousers to make them fit.) And they taught us how to clean a house. (I have a vivid memory of teaching an American exchange student from Vermont how to clean windows when it was annual deep cleaning day in our student housing, because she didn't know how to do it. Her mum had never taught her how to clean anything because they had a cleaner. it was mind-blowing to 2010!me that such people existed.)

My mum sewed a lot of our clothes for us when we were young since she didn't work (90s rural Iceland didn't lend itself to many job opportunities) and we couldn't afford store bought clothes all the time. I picked up some things from her. Come to think of it, I even learned basic gardening skills, mostly for how to grow root vegetables, rhubarb, strawberries and redcurrants since that's about what we could grow in Iceland, but we did grow it. once we were in Denmark we grew also tomatoes and chillis and other things that can grow in a greenhouse so I learned that too. I learned how to forage for native berries (bilberries, stone bramble, blueberries, crowberries) and how to turn berries and rhubarb into different types of jam and jellies.

I think part of my skillset definitely also comes from school, since most of the schools I've attended have had hands-on classes in several subjects (changing every year or every semester), so I've done basic wood working, leather working, ceramics, cooking, food science, sewing, embroidery, knitting, painting, more wood working, etc. all at school in addition to things I learned at home.

But wiring, man, I never learned how to do that.

(edited for readability)