My clothing never rips at the knee or becomes “distressed” near the pockets. The fabric just slowly rubs away due to chub rub. My concern with the super distressed ones is I imagine trying to put them on and your foot keeps going through the enormous hole that runs from like your upper thigh to shin.

Yes. This trash can is ironic and cute. Vintage. See how they used rope instead of a metal handle. Oh the WHIMSY. This trash can is for effortlessly beautiful ladies with lofts in Brooklyn.

You’re wrong to assume that there is a significant overlap between “Anthropologie shoppers” and “hardware store shoppers”.

I actually just bought myself one of those. It was on sale for like $80, and is an off brand (not simple human) but goddammit I love feeling like I'm cooking on a space ship. I stand by my choices.

I feel like you could get something to a similar effect at a hardware store. Am I wrong in thinking this?

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I’m about to start teaching home ec out of my house to earn some money while I am in the middle of my divorce. My mom homeschooled me for several years and didn’t teach me science or math, but taught me to cook, clean, sew, etc. I am an excellent housewife with shitty basic math skills.

Sewing a button is easy. It'll take you 60 secs to learn. If you need a zipper replaced or a hem fixed, take it your dry cleaner. It is usually very cheap to hire someone with a sewing machine to repair.

I took a class in high school called “domestic literacy” (yay, Montana). It was basically all the things they thought you would need to be able to live by yourself. It was done in 3 blocks, which were Financial Literacy, Domestic Literacy and Relationship Literacy. Basically, it ran from how to balance a checkbook,…

I’ve been harping about a revival of HomeEc for years. There are some skills that everyone needs to know, and even though parents do try to teach them, middle- and high school kids aren’t always excited about having Mom or Dad lecture them on anything. Sewing - not couture creation, but simple things like sewing on a…

I wish our school systems were invested in teaching kids how to manage a household and live life. A big part of that is obviously financial literacy, which should be a course unto itself. A course on like nutrition, cooking, and sewing (ooh and maybe gardening) focused around self-care. A course on light plumbing,…

I’m gonna type this as loudly as Kinja possibly can:

My curriculum would be a simulation of adult life. Each teen would be given a set amount of money each week (the same amount, totally unrealistic) in a virtual checking account. They would have set monthly expenses such as rent, utilites, cable, etc. They could choose not to have cable, but they would have to have…

I think it’s super important that kids learn how to make themselves simple meals. I was maybe 9 or 10 when I would come home from school before my parents and make myself a small meal before dinner. My niece and nephew are 12 and 14 and one day when my SO and I took them to school, the 14 year old ate a pop tart for…

My school did the same thing. The mid 1990s were sooo progressive! :/ I did learn how to cook milk without burning it, though, which is a skill I’ve appreciated having since. And I can do basic sewing and can sand the shit out of a piece of wood, so basically I’m prepared for the zombie apocalypse.

I’m in my 20s and it kills me that so few people my age ever learned how to sew. What do they do when they lose a button? Throw it out? I was lucky enough to come from a long line of seamstresses, so not only can I repair my own clothes, but I’ve managed to start a nice side business making and altering costumes for…

I took home ec in grades 7/8, back in the mid-1990's. By then it was already in a state of major decay in terms of quality... we made an awful lot of cookies in “foods” class.

Seriously though, we’ve got to bring back and improve home economics. What would you teach? That should be the discussion here.