Name something you used to do that today's whippersnappers have never heard of.

[chervilant]

293. Great OP!

Here's my short list:

Clean all coal oil lamps, and trim the wicks.

Empty the chamber pot every morning.

Light the tinder box and pull the coffee pot over.

Milk the cow, slop the hogs, and open up the chicken house.

Gather eggs from the hen house.

Churn butter.

Wield a post-hole digger and use a come-along to string barbed wire.

De-horn cows.

Castrate piglets and clip their tusks.

Heft hundred-pound sacks of feed and carry them out to the barn.

Field dress squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs, and deer.

Dust sulfur in socks and around waistbands before berry picking.

Carry water up from the 'crick.'

Skinny dip in the river for a bath (only in summer--in winter, we had to use the wash tub in front of the wood stove).

I could go on, but I have to go split wood.