to be fair...I have never churned butter...
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True for me too...I never milked a cow and never sheared a sheep's wool and never cut wood with an axe. My nan and grandpa did that. I learned to iron, cook and bake and do household chores. With a big family everyone had to help. It was my job to do all the ironing. I hated it and still do. The younger generation have fewer kids and they have more conveniences to help with everyday chores so they don't learn the things that we needed to learn. The younger ones also have skills I will never learn. They are technically savvy whereas I can barely use a computer for e-mail and visiting quilting websites. Every generation has changes and new things bring new challenges.