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Gwendolyn Piper Steeves:
Things to Know


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An excellent reference for this topic is The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do

Thing to Know
Date Learned
Notes
Apologize and accept apologies  
Apply makeup  
Bake cookies  
Balance a checkbook  
Balance pride and humility  
Be a great travel companion  
Be wrong and move on  
Bowl (how to play and how to score)  
Build a Web site  
Catch a football (the right way)  
Change a tire  
Choose a bottle of wine  
Choose appropriate birth control  
Clean a bathroom  
Clean your teeth  
Communicate effectively (writing and speaking)  
Cook at least one really fantastic meal  
Dance  
Dribble  
Drive a stick shift and an automatic  
Explain the three branches, electoral college, Bill of Rights, and the makeup of Congress  
Find information in a library (whether Dewey or LC)  
Find a place to eat dinner in Chicago  
Find a suitable hairstyle  
Forgive  
French braid hair  
Give and take criticism  
Hold a baby  
Juggle  
Laundry  
Leave an uncomfortable situation  
Maintain a relationship with your family no matter how unlike you they may seem  
Mix a drink  
Name the nine planets in order (or however many they think there are)  
Open a wine bottle  
Parallel park  
Pitch a tent  
Play a musical instrument  
Play at least three different card games  
Pour a Guinness  
Read a physical map and an online version  
Ride a bike  
Say "no" firmly and fairly  
Score a baseball game  
Sew a button  
Shoot a free throw  
Shoot nonslop pool, or at least know the rules  
Shop online  
Show appreciation  
Smile in pictures  
Spell  
Stand up for yourself  
Start a fire  
Swim  
Talk sports  
Teach others  
Tie a Windsor knot  
Use an axe  
Use gaydar  
Use a thesaurus  
Use punctuation  
When to say when