#mine is from Ghersi but I'm pretty sure you can find others

[sandinthepipes]

Friendly reminder that this thing where you're supposed to know how to do stuff simply by virtue of livin is wrong and is fairly recent.

There were manuals before.

I was going through some old books left by my grandma and I found a, literally translated, "home cookbook" from 1911, which isn't a cookbook at all, it's a manual that explains to you in details how to do literally anything, from how to make the bed, to how to do the laundry and dry and store them, how to make the laundry soap, to how to tell what the weather is going to be, to how to make glue and ink for a tag on a jar.

I haven't read it all, I just skimmed really quickly, so I don't know if it contains even social skills, but in other booklet I found the instructions of how to be a host, how you should invite people over, how to prepare, what to do when they're there.

And sure you could argue they're all outdated good housewife skills, but I have a newsflash for you, you are now your own housewife. You need to do all those things and bring the money home all on your own. Sure, maybe your house won't be neat when you have people coming over and the table won't be set for kings, but you still need to to the dishes

#idk i think we should bring back life manuals back #that one is really cool it's structured like an encyclopedia so you can easily find stuff #for those wandering it's #ricettario domestico #mine is from Ghersi but I'm pretty sure you can find others