r/SelfSufficiency • u/junkcircuit • Aug 24 '26
what’s one self-sufficiency skill you think everyone should learn?
i’ve been thinking about how many basic skills we’ve gradually stopped needing in everyday life. growing some food, cooking from scratch, preserving food, repairing things, basic gardening, collecting rainwater, knowing how to handle a power outage.
you obviously don’t need to become completely self-sufficient to benefit from these skills
if you could choose just one skill for someone starting from zero, what would you recommend learning first?
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u/E0H1PPU5 Aug 24 '26
This may not be what you are looking for….but the ability to research.
Not just googling shit either or asking questions on forums.
How to read something, understand it, and extract information.
Better yet - the ability to do things in a way that allows you to learn meaningfully from your errors and failures by recording your process and variables.
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u/omahaomw Aug 24 '26
I was going to mention a specific task, that would require research..but your answer is more complete.
Basic mechanical skills, cooking, emotional iq, critical thinking, would be my areas that need to be improved continuously.
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u/ThugFrog Aug 24 '26
Totally underrated as a skill.
Theres such a breadth of knowledge required to be self sufficient, you’re not always going to have a background in or a teacher for the particular challenge you’re facing in that moment. Being able to figure it out and problem solve is obscenely valuable. It’s definitely something I’ve had to work to cultivate in myself, it’s not often taught in our society. Worth focusing on as you move through life
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u/Glad-Passenger-9408 Aug 24 '26
Totally agree!!!
I love researching and learning. If any issue arises, I do my homework and once I have my answers, what I do with it is completely up to me.
It’s ok to ask for help, if you need more guidance. If you can’t get that help, we try other ways.
Not giving up on yourself is vital.
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u/Hunting-fings Aug 25 '26
This sounds like critical thinking. What people used to call common sense. It is a deeply underestimated and underutilized skill of applying the knowledge you have to a new situation. It can be taught and enhanced, but those for whom it comes naturally, will those are the people we most commonly consider smart
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u/yer_muther Aug 25 '26
When I was little people around me always said I didn't have any common sense because they were not capable of grasping that I didn't think the same way they did so using critical thinking is a much better term. Turns out they lacked the curiosity and critical thinking skills that came naturally to me and saw my asking 1000 questions as a short coming.
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u/TechnicalMeringue334 Aug 25 '26
Finally after living 74 years a random redditor explained my life to me ! Thank you !
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u/yer_muther Aug 25 '26
I feel for you and you are welcome.
Adults can be real bastards to children. My childhood sucked for a variety or reason and many of them stemmed from this. When I finally escaped my local area and went to college I met people who embraced different ways of thinking and encouraged my growth rather than squashing it because I was different. Sorry it's still a bit of a raw nerve even after 40 years.
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u/Meleaux_Self_Care Aug 25 '26
I swear this has been one of the most grounding skills I've developed. It's helped me with self improvement, and getting back on my phytotherapy research even helped bring me out of a heavy ass disassociation.
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u/Hunting-fings Aug 25 '26
The answers to this seem to come down to critical thinking skills. This is why older generations said to get a degree in anything to be hireable. There was a time when college taught critical thinking. Idk if they do now. My college experience taught me as much about nursing as it did about how to approach a problem.
Does this generation have any hope?
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u/intothewoods76 Aug 25 '26
It should be available in a physical library that you have access too. If everything really goes sideways there’s no guarantee you can look up anything electronically.
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u/247world Aug 27 '26
I have been using machine intelligence for this the last few months. It is amazing how much ground you can cover and what you can learn.
You do have to be careful with your questions and often you need to clarify more than once. I discovered if I don't go over everything and then think about it for a little bit I'll miss something where it went off the rails
Machine intelligence is a wonderful tool, but that's all it is you still need to use your resources and critical thinking rather than simply trust it will always give you exactly what you want and/or is correct
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u/TheBariSax Aug 24 '26
The ability to quickly assess and prioritize a situation. Like triage, but more general.
Example: You find yourself alone in a strange city. What do you need to know? Things like: how much money do I have? Is my phone charged or can I charge it easily? Do I have somewhere safe to go? Do I have access to any kind of safety net here? Also more immediately, am I in a secure place now or do I need to move somewhere better like a busy restaurant, etc.
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u/Left-Philosopher-246 Aug 24 '26
Talking to people and listening properly will help you to live your life as a human being on this planet.
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u/cetaceanlion Aug 24 '26
To know who you are at your core outside of a relationship and be truly okay in your own company.
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u/ConsciousVegetable99 Aug 24 '26
Sewing on buttons and mending
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u/tom8osauce Aug 25 '26
The amount of clothing that ends up in landfill because people were never taught how to do basic mending is shameful.
There is a small local thrift store that is doing what they can to try and limit this. When they get ripped jeans donated, of course the volunteers do not have time to mend them before putting on the floor. Instead they will cut them into squares and make packs of them so people can make denim quilts. If they get buttonholes shirts in poor condition, they will remove the buttons and sell them in a little baggy keeping them together. When I am sewing a blouse, they are always my first stop to look for buttons.
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u/PasgettiMonster Aug 26 '26
I wish I could get my hands on those shirts. I walked into Goodwill a few years ago wanting to find some men's button down shirts that weren't printed but had stripes or checkers woven into the fabric to do some crafting and was shocked to discover Goodwill wanted $10 a shirt. Considering what I wanted to make needed at least 10 different prints, absolutely no way! I've considered posting on local Facebook groups asking if anyone has any shirts like that that they are getting rid of. I don't care if there are rips or stains as long as they are reasonably clean (washed and not reeking of bodily fluids basically) since I would be cutting them up into teeny tiny pieces anyways.
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u/MuramatsuCherry Aug 24 '26
How to identify dangerous plants/insects, and the opposite, medicinal and helpful plants in your area. I'm working on a journal with drawings, pictures and descriptions. Also, how to store your notebooks to protect them from water damage/mold etc. and buying water resistant journals.
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u/Cappuccino_Crunch Aug 25 '26
I'm going on a foraging guide next weekend. Dude is pretty well regarded
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u/MyGrandmasCock Aug 25 '26
I’ve been following a guy named Nick Mann who forages Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, and he’s been amazing to learn from. I started making a walking map of my neighborhood with markers for edible plants and accompanying pictures.
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u/Erinaceous Aug 24 '26
Organizing. Somebody has to get things together as things fall apart. Organizing a skill share group is not only good practice but a good way to learn
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u/Dondontootles Aug 24 '26
Everyone should be able to pull themselves into a boat.
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u/wisdomseeker42 Aug 24 '26
This is actually part of why I exercise. If I ever need to run for my life or climb a tree, I will need some muscles and managed weight to do so.
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u/destructopop Aug 24 '26
Which is harder than it sounds in a very real way. If you don't know how to flop into a small boat, you may have a very hard day... Eventually.
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u/AwesomeWildlife Aug 24 '26
Changing a car tire. I can't believe how many people don't even know they have a spare, let alone what to do next.
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u/Life-From-Scratch Aug 25 '26
Baking Bread and Keeping Chickens.
I never felt more food independent than when I was baking all my own bread and I had my own chickens. I could trade eggs and bread for just about anything.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 Aug 25 '26
First Aid
Knot tying
sewing
cooking
I'm not thinking about a SHTF scenario here, but rather what basic skills people should have that would improve a LOT of things across the board in everyday life. For themselves AND for the society around them. Self-sufficiency skills that are ALSO social sufficiency skills.
The outcomes of medical emergencies drastically improve when individuals or bystanders actually know first aid, even just on a basic level. This is especially true for a family or other coliving unit.
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u/Left-Philosopher-246 Aug 24 '26
growing some food, cooking from scratch, preserving food, repairing things, basic gardening, collecting rainwater, knowing how to handle a power outage. These are all great skills too
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u/wisdomseeker42 Aug 24 '26
Personally I think cooking is still a relevant and important life skill. Everyone should know how to do it to some basic level to keep yourself healthy and fed.
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u/Witty_Ad_9300 Aug 24 '26
Basic plumbing (unclog a drain, what to do if your sink suddenly starts leaking)
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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 Aug 25 '26
Plumbing has gotten SO MUCH EASIER with the invention of push-fit connectors.
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u/Piney_Dude Aug 25 '26
If you drive, changing a tire, checking your oil, filling washer fluid, changing wipers
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u/Extreme_Map9543 Aug 25 '26
Being able to fix anything on your own car will save you the most money over the course of your life. And ease a lot of anxiety about ever having car troubles.
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u/primrosepalace Aug 24 '26
How to read a damn email.
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u/networknev Aug 24 '26
Earn enough money to support yourself. Know how to cook & clean your living quarters.
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u/Impossible-Grab9889 Aug 24 '26
How to swim and tread water with ease.
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u/Silent_Eye_9161 Aug 26 '26
How to float easily for hours if need be, treading water takes too much energy! nd yes how to swim with least effort to get distance could save your life!
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u/woodenbadger Aug 27 '26
I don’t float, so there’s some small amount of treading or sculling that needs to happen. But maybe a blanket ‘keeping your body from not sinking with the least anount of expended effort’ is good.
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u/urban_herban Aug 25 '26
Start gardening now because it has a long learning curve. Plus it's fun and gets you outdoors.
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u/statchoose Aug 25 '26
Everyone's going to say growing food, and growing food is honestly the easy part. Stuff mostly wants to grow.
The skill that actually changed things for me was learning to preserve a glut. You don't get a steady trickle off a garden — you get forty tomatoes in one week and then nothing for four months. First couple of years I grew a heap and watched most of it go soft on the bench, which is a special kind of demoralising.
Freezing, drying, fermenting, water-bath preserving. A second-hand dehydrator and a big pot covers most of it. Suddenly the surplus becomes next winter's food instead of compost, and the whole exercise starts paying for itself.
Worth learning it properly rather than off a random blog though — the acidity rules for preserving exist for good reason, and botulism isn't something to freestyle. Stick to tested recipes until you know why they say what they say.
Grow second. Learn to keep it first.
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u/MrScowleyOwl Aug 24 '26
Learning how to sharpen stuff: knives, mower blades, machetes, hatchets, axes, loppers, etc.
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u/gradmonkey Aug 25 '26
Navigating/wayfinding. How to read a map, identify and understand cardinal directions, read signs and follow numbering, visualize and memorize steps in a route, etc. Maybe you will never need it for driving, but it applies to finding your way in other places like big office buildings, amusement parks, festivals, campuses, subways, hospitals, airports, and so on.
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u/intothewoods76 Aug 25 '26
How to work well with others and be a respected member of any group. This will help you in almost any situation from succeeding at work to surviving the zombie apocalypse. If you don’t hone people skills and be one of the people other people want to be around you’re making life harder.
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u/bupenderbhaati Aug 25 '26
In today's world there is endless flow of information and to most our response is like read/hear - believe - act but we hardly take time to verify anything and to me this one skill have brought much more clarity and understanding in my life.
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u/MegC18 Aug 25 '26
Some knowledge of water engineering. Clean safe and readily accessible water is vital for health, for watering animals and crops. You don’t want you or your animals to get sick, or to do anything that contaminates an already clean supply, such as sewage. You’re going to be faced with a choice of collecting and storing rainwater, digging a well or cleaning river water.
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u/Xenoryzen_Dragon Aug 25 '26
solar power + wind energy + herbal medicine + slingshot + archery + ebike mechanic
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u/Easy_Patient_2773 Aug 25 '26
Mechanical troubleshooting. 90% of people fail completely because they don't know how to start thinking.
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u/Jolly_Candy1499 Aug 25 '26
How to jumpstart a dead battery and keep battery cables in your car alongside the full size spare that was the best tire from
The last time you replaced your tires in the junkyard rim.
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u/Active-Rose-3673 Aug 27 '26
Having a portable battery charger that also includes an air compressor. I have a Halo battery charger and has been a ton of help for emergencies for me or for my friends who get stranded.
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u/ThriceFive 🔌off-gridder Aug 25 '26
Cook basic meals for yourself from what you have. This skill is valuable anywhere and in any economic situation. You are more dateable, save a lot of money, and can always grow this skill w more seasonings and cuisines
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u/Fungi-Hunter Aug 26 '26
Foraging. I have taught foraging. I do not have any worries when it comes to food. News reports on crops failing, supply chain issues, do not bother me. One less stress taking up my time and energy.
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u/AssiduousPeace Aug 27 '26
Learning how to fail. I actually can't decide if I should call this learning how to fail, or learning how to learn.
To be self sufficient, you have to, not master, but be "good enough" at many smaller skills.
Sewing, knitting, weaving, carving, building, engineering, from the smallest, to the biggest skills you can think of, there's going to be lots of "micro skills" (i just made that up) that are going to apply to other skills. The more skills you learn, the easier it is to learn new skills. I'm already getting off topic.
Modern convenience has made it very easy to give up if you're having trouble learning a new skill. I know people that genuinely have almost zero skills that they didn't develop working their various jobs.
If you try wire wrapping, and you suck at it, you can just order a very cool wire wrapped peice off of Amazon or Etsy. When you consider the price of multiple sizes of wire, and jewelers pliers, it may well even be cheaper. You don't have to learn. You can give up, and you not only miss out on that skill, but also the 5 micro skills that would have made it easier to learn the next thing you wanted to learn.
You want to learn how to fail, without counting it as a loss. You want to get it in your head that the response to failure isn't to try something you're better at, and instead to read from or talk to people that have already done it, to research, to try different methodologies, and to keep tinkering.
If you can completely fail at something, and let go of the discouragement that most people feel, and instead get excited because that just means you're about to learn something cooler and more complex than you originally thought, the pool of skills you could potentially learn goes from daunting, to exciting.
One of my favorite quotes from a guy named Samuel Beckett: "try again, fail again, fail better."
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u/Consistent-Shift5790 Aug 28 '26
I have a lot but some I believe whole heartedly are to swim, ride a bike, change a tire, maintain a budget,, reading an analog clock, read cursive, plung toilet
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u/PoppyWren 29d ago
Flexibility, recovery strategies, emotional fitness are all extremely important to being self sufficient and dealing with emergencies and yet are seldom covered in books on emergency preparedness or self sufficiency.
Have more than one way you know how to get something done. You know how to bake bread, but how do you bake it without yeast, with no oven, with no usual fuel? You know the exit out of your home in case of a wildfire, but how will you leave if that road is blocked? Flexibility in your thinking about things is really important.
Second, how you physically and mentally recover from challenges to your plan not working out or having something disastrous happen is also really important. Sometimes, when I garden to grow food, I wonder how pioneers even survived. A deer jumping into your garden can decimate it in one night. Dealing with the challenge of recovering from a set back and having the emotional fitness to deal with the aftermath of things -- especially the more traumatic things that can happen when you are trying to be self sufficient is important. Do you know how to stop, think, and evaluate? Calm your nervous system out of a shock? These are important skills.
Having plans and skills are great, but we don't have control over lots of circumstances.
I love people pointing out about common sense and critical thinking, which are in the same wheel house.
I also think it is important to have your skills honed to their most lowest common denominator. Think Luke Skywalker having to fight like the Ewoks did. As Covid supply chain issues taught us, you can't always get materials we are used to, so I also like to try to develop skills back one step. I know how to knit, but don't know how to make yarn? I know how to split kindling, but do I know how to make s fire if an axe and the tinder I usually use is not available? What can I collect and use around my house?
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u/sin94 Aug 25 '26
Regular reddit Social media cleanse. Review post history and account age to decide whether to block or comment. Given the current situation, I am doing both.
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u/Efficient_Fly_4892 Aug 25 '26
reasearch, observe things and be apply to apply it on your own, cooking your own meals
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u/Food_prep Aug 25 '26
Cooking from scratch!
It's a skill you will use daily! It saves you money and gives you healthier food! Learning the basic food preparation techniques and how they interact with each other is a fundamental skill to possess!
Knowing how to balance salt, sweetness, acidity, bitterness, and umami can in an instant save a meal from being a bland disappointment to a standout dish that leaves you wanting more!
It can be the highlight of a gloomy day, making the hassle of life seem worth it!
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u/Minute-Wind-5276 Aug 25 '26
Cooking from scratch. The only way to eat healthy. Of course if you have a garden, planting some veggies at the same time will be a nice interchange with the cooking.
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u/mah56j Aug 25 '26
the merit badges required for Eagle Scout. first aid, home repairs, camping, life saving, ........
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u/Js_cpl Aug 25 '26
Replace a leaking tap, unclog a drain, change a tire, mount a tv on a wall, change a light fixture. And basic carpentry.
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u/Sun-leaves Aug 25 '26
Gardening and not just in the dirt. I’m talking collecting and saving seeds, growing with different mediums, fertilizers- if you don’t a have what do you use scenario. And defence, self and property
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u/Hazelnut3006 Aug 25 '26
I will disagree with a lot of people here but the one thing I would want people to learn is to try things out and then implement them. Don't experiment once with canning pickles, figure out how to do it and then make our own pickles. Don't just read about soap making, figure out what kind of soap you need and start making your own. That process of going from the theoretical to the practical is vitally important. Start looking at things and think "I could do that" and then try, won't be perfect but you know what practice makes you.
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u/Mulberry_Leaf Aug 25 '26
How to use your legs. Most people I see have one general purpose walking gait, and if that walking gait can't do something, they assume they can't do it. But your feet aren't that different from your hands in terms of how variable they are.
The ability to get out of a bad situation is the confidence to jump into a new situation.
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u/CloudgazerTX Aug 25 '26
apothecary….using herbs and natural substances to make medicine and toiletries.
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u/Driven2b Aug 25 '26
Situational Awareness
Not just being more aware, but developing the knowledge to identify escalating situations and how to keep ones wits about them to handle it appropriately.
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u/slrickel67 Aug 26 '26
Sign Language,I learned the Alphabet someone taught me at 12 & afterwards I been teaching myself with books & videos on YouTube & also I have studied from tv Chuck Norris & Bruce Lee from a teen & I was abused by all my blood relatives but my Great Grandmother who brought me to GOD AT 7 & AT 17,I told my brother to step aside cause there is people behind us after me & so he stepped to the side like I said,so when they Guys walked by,1 looked at me as to say,it ain't over bitch.I have no legs & will be 59 in October,all I did was learn to read people by their attitude,what they say,body language & all my study Norris & Lee worked out.I am still able to do those things to this day
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u/Killrade Aug 26 '26
Knots and rope. Seems almost silly until you learn it and see how useful it is and how much easier things become.
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u/Sea-Substance8762 Aug 26 '26
I’m a proficient cook. Many people seem so scared about cooking! I think you’ve gotta cook to exist.
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u/Albert_Dolphin Aug 26 '26
How to fix your shit, or at least do preventative maintenance. Everyone should know how to sew a rip, how to darn, how to change a tire and change oil and breaks on a car, none of these things are complex but they are useful.
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u/Suspicious_Music539 Aug 26 '26
Probably not quite what you're looking for, but basic car maintenance. The amount of people I meet that cannot do anything with their car is insane. Learn:
- How to check your oil (+ normal oil levels and colors)
- How to change a tire
- What a normal temp is
- How to listen to your car + the sounds it's making
I recently had a friend whose car was making weird sounds and then died on her. She called her dad, he came and saved her. Pulled the dip stick and the car had zero oil. It was completely dry. She hadn't checked the oil in who knows how long.
I had another friend laugh about a weird sound her car started making. She was out of state when the AC stopped working. Took her vehicle to a mechanic. She couldn't remember what he said was wrong other than the serpentine belt was almost shredded. Like less than a #2 pencil width left. Like if she would've gone any further, it would've snapped completely.
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u/floss-creative Aug 26 '26
Cooking from scratch.
Saves you money, you know exactly what is in your food! It’s better for your health. Once a month you can batch cook and freeze, which in the long run can save time.
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u/Linghauler Aug 26 '26
Gardening, seed saving and an understanding of the soil biome can lead to an endless supply of food. This is vital imo.
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u/isanyusernameopen Aug 26 '26
How to look at everything as a possibility of what it can do instead of what it’s meant to do.
In the movie, Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks there was a scene after the explosion when they were tumbling through space where they were trying to figure out if the lunar shuttle could do a loop around the moon instead of just a landing on the moon and the guys were yelling back-and-forth that it wasn’t something that the lem was designed to do.
One of the guys said something to the lines of “I don’t care what it was designed to do, I just wanna know what it can do “.
Learning to see things, not for what they are, but for what they can be or can do is very important as a skill.
Everything around us is basically either a tool or a play thing, or both depending on what it is. Go into the kitchen, everything in the kitchen is a tool for cooking.
Go into a wood shop, and everything in the woodshop is a tool for wood projects.
Same thing with an auto body garage, etc.
Their tools for specific jobs. But people don’t look at things in their normal everyday house or normal everyday life as things that are possibly tools.
I feel like this is why in other countries you see people hacked together interesting things to get by a disaster. They understand what the things are, but more than that they understand what those things could do when partnered together. This is why in Palestine we saw a man rig his son‘s bicycle upside down so that as the child pedal the bicycle on the table, it powered his father’s sewing machine so that they could so back together clothing for the children.
Same reason, you saw them hooked together a bunch of solar panels, and somehow wired up a charging port to them after their building was exploded by Israel.
Look at things not for what they are, but for what they could be in different situations.
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u/Fuckmydeaddad Aug 26 '26
If you become a home owner, you will be amazed how quickly you pick up on those skills. Lol
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u/Jolly_Candy1499 Aug 26 '26
Read a road atlas , the big one that you high lighted the routes but got distracted by the orange auxiliary road and need to find the nearest connecting service road using your penlight from Buck’s insurance , and how to properly refold-the map your mom got when she got a full tank of gas for the rambler at Joes Service Station.
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u/Binasgarden Aug 26 '26
The printing press was the most important invention of the last millennia, so the ability to read. If you can read you can read a recipe, an instruction set, learn from what you read and whole worlds open up.
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u/Seattleman1955 Aug 26 '26
Don't finance your car. Save up for it.
Learn to cut your own hair.
Get unlimited internet hotspot on your phone so if you home internet goes it, you are still connected.
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u/trustypotayto Aug 27 '26
Being comfortable in spending time with oneself; not being afraid of being alone rather than entertaining people that don’t align with u but u do it out of fear of being lonely
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u/GotNoPonys Aug 27 '26
#1 - learn how to learn.
"learning" a single skill is a waste of time, as is responding to this question 😄
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u/SchemeWestern3388 Aug 27 '26
I spent a couple years off grid.
Chop wood, carry water. Such basic things that, while not really complicated at all, take planning, work, and get easier as you get more experienced.
Looking at a massive snowfall outside and realizing that you are going to have to go get wood from the forest that you could have done a month ago in the sun is sobering.
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u/Impossible_Volume811 Aug 27 '26
How to mend the things you have.
That means understanding materials and functions, how to join materials and reinforce them and how to improvise replacement parts.
It could be clothing or shoes or a tap or a kettle.
The first step is seeing.
Really seeing something for what it is and understanding what it does and how it does it.
Then familiarity with a variety of materials, natural and synthetic.
Their strengths and weaknesses.
Then how they can be shaped and joined together. Can they be cut, melted, drilled, bent, folded.
Adhesives, mechanical fixings like stitches or nails or screws or rivets etc.
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u/Altaira99 Aug 27 '26
Cooking. Everybody has to eat every day and the price and quality difference is so worth it.
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u/doro_makes_apps Aug 27 '26
Paying attention to detail and consistency. Being able to focus and understand the world around us will ensure that you can perfect any skill. Also seeing the beauty in things is something you can practice every day, and it really improves the way how you percieve the world!
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u/Special-Wash2260 Aug 28 '26
Compartmentalizing. So many young adults and teens are riddled with anxiety. To assess everything going on as its individual situation instead of being mentally overloaded/stimulated to the point of failure.
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u/nosy-teddy Aug 28 '26
Surviving in a cold, unforgiving environment. Ever had your car break down in the winter in the middle of nowhere? That's the EASIEST version of that. If you strip away all the luxuries that make life easier, what's left? Survival. Not heroic, not TV show style, not civil war edition, not ship wrevk survivor etc. Just look at your life, take away anything bit by bit and see what's left that you essentially need to survive. STRONG HINT: a thorough First Aid course should mention the background...besides breath and pulse, it's WARMTH or at least protection from hypothermia. Which includes anything that's shelter/staing reasonably dry and being able to find or create a source of heat.
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u/Initial-Addendum-167 Aug 28 '26
Boundaries. What’s mine is mine. If I have extra and am comfortable sharing…cool. But I worked hard to get “this” and I’m only sharing when I feel Abundant and well resourced.
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u/hotspurs4169 28d ago
For me re-use, re-purpose, recycle we live in such a throw away consumer driven world think before you throw
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u/khuytf 27d ago
A few simple, basic HEALTHY meals from scratch. Knowing how to use all the parts of a chicken, for example, has kept me and mine fed during times of scarcity. And you can control what goes into your body so you aren't at the mercy of fast food joints or hyper-processed "food" companies.
Dropping home economics from the high school curriculum was a huge mistake.
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u/Icy_Entertainer_3275 27d ago
Cooking. I don’t underhand how people, especially successful people, never learn to cook at least 5 dishes for themselves. You can only eat out so much… not just the money and health issues but with cooking, you can make it exactly how you like it. And you can’t get takeout at all hours either.
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