Basic skills - would you admit to lacking?

They are having you on*SueDonim*. I am extremely left handed but can sew, embroider and knit. I always use a right handed scissors also as there were no left handed implements when I was a child.
I would like to learn to crochet though .

I can’t paint, either artistically or home decor-wise. I’ve tried the latter several times and just can’t do it. I spread the paint far too thinly and cannot overcome that. However, I can wallpaper up a storm so I’ll take a bouquet for that!

Neither of my DD’s can sew on a button. At least, they claim they can’t. . They’re both left-handed (I’m not) and that is their claim to their ineptitude.

Blondiescot
This is the car that my partner races and obviously has to keep going.
This is not his advert but the man he bought it from.

car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=95545&country=uk

I've never really asked for help having learned in childhood that that just made me a... trying to think of the right word... Burden I suppose.

I'm always surprised watching others do it for even minor things when I felt terrible asking someone to babysit for a hospital appointment.

I left home with no life skills except what I had taught myself or learnt at school.

The thing is though, it is lovely. It is lovely that people want to help each other.

A friend asked me to sew a button once, guess who I felt I could ask to babysit!

I would love to be able to hang wallpaper I am competent at most things regarding DIY and have just decorated throughout my bungalow painting all the wall and doors etc but the wallpaper was beyond me and I had to ask a good friend to do the honours for me.

GagaJo

Car engines / tyres leave me cold. I used to be able to use an oil dipstick, but my current car is too complicated for me.

It would be really useful to be able to use the oil dipstick, measure the tyre pressure and put air in.

To be perfectly honest, with today's cars, there's actually very little that a 'home' mechanic can do anyway. So many electronic components now, which require specialised diagnostic equipment. My husband and I used to compete in car rallies, and I took a few car maintenance courses, so I could change most parts, including an engine if required. I could still do basic things like changing a tyre (which I personally think should be part of the driving test anyway), checking oil, water levels etc, but much of the more complicated stuff is way beyond me. Even my husband, who used to do all the maintenance himself, won't touch a lot of it now.

I did car maintenance when young ok with that. I paid my son to do the ironing I am now an expert at folding washing so it doesn't need ironing. Now I can't hoover because of my back .

Me too, to a certain extent Hetty58. When I moved into my house, it was a bit of a wreck. I did all the work on it myself. OK, so it took me a week to plaster a small room, when it would have taken a professional a couple of hours. But it was done well and hasn't needed redoing at all in the 12 years I've lived here.

The one thing that beat me was stripping the floor boards and stairs. I REALLY wanted them with a lime washed effect and chickened out after I'd done a few stairs. SO much work. Just painted them instead.

No - if I don't know how to do something, I'll do some research, find out, then practice. Maybe it's a retired teacher frame of mind?

It's a matter of pride to me that I can do almost anything an 'expert' can. It may take me far longer, that's all!

Apart from clearly dangerous activities (electrics, gas, roofing - and self diagnosis) I do everything possible all on my own!

You tube for everything.

Cooking and baking, I can only do plain ordinary stuff.
Sewing and embroidery, sewing practically non-existent, embroidery not at all.
Communication skills, never very good until I know someone very well.

Car engines / tyres leave me cold. I used to be able to use an oil dipstick, but my current car is too complicated for me.

It would be really useful to be able to use the oil dipstick, measure the tyre pressure and put air in.