What dying skill do you wish would make a comeback?

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1. Communication, car repairs in driveway

2. Making one’s own clothes. Sewing and repairing.

3. Repair work / making stuff.

   My uncle repaired his table the other day using some saws and wood. My auntie makes and repairs clothes and shoes.

   Their professions had nothing to do with these skills I guess older people just have a skill with their hands that hasn’t made it through the generations

4. Sewing. I always try to learn and always stink at it, I wish it was more common. Repairing things is so much better than just tossing them, especially things like pants and jackets.

5. Lace making! It’s so cool!

6. Letter writing

7. Sewing, I’ve studied for it and it’s pretty awesome to be able to make the clothes you want.

   Edit: grammar

8. carpentry, and not like a factory made stuff, i mean like a local artisan who makes really intricate wooden chairs or dressers

9. Communication and conflict resolution.

10. Shoemaker! I never again want to shop amongst crappy plastic shoes made by slaves in Asia. . I want to buy one that is hand-crafted for my foot dammit, made by someone who knows what they are doing (not someone who bought a machine and then uses it to measure my foot and then has the shoe made by a slave in Asia)

    And yes, I realize it will be way more expensive than said plastic product of slave labor and I am very much ok with that.

11. sewing and knitting

12. Carpentry. I have a table and picture frame my grandfather made that really make me want to learn at a shop class or something.