Lost Skills Handbook - 200 old-fashioned practical skills for the kitchen, garden, repair bench, sewing basket and household budget: the know-how our grandparents had and most of us were never taught #1012570

Your grandmother could mend a sock, stretch a chicken across three meals, read tomorrow's weather in the sky and fix a wobbly chair with a few cheap tools. Most of us were never taught any of it, and the first time a seam splits or a drawer sticks, we feel the gap. Lost Skills Handbook collects 200 old-fashioned practical skills in one friendly, easy-to-dip-into book, sorted by where you need them: the kitchen, the garden, the repair bench, the sewing basket, the household budget and the everyday know-how in between. Each skill is a short, numbered entry: what it is, what you need, the steps in order and the mistake to avoid. Unlike a single-subject manual on bread, plumbing, dressmaking or canning, this is a broad compendium. It gives you the working method for many small things so you can choose what to learn first, and it stays on safe, low-risk ground: no gas, no mains wiring, no foraging, no unsafe food preservation. Inside, you'll learn: Keep it on the kitchen shelf, work through it a skill at a time, and rediscover how much a pair of capable hands can do.