Amazing ladies poll - how many of these 12 things can you do?

[Dargawn]

How many of these things can you do without assistance:

Add air to a tyre
Change oil
Change a wheel on your car
Fix a bike pucture
Put up shelving
Change a plug adhering to all safety advice and best practice
Put together a cabinet-size piece of flat pack furniture
Set up a home network
Diganose problem and mend toaster
Change element in an oven
Sort out a fuse box if lights go off
Turn off water at mains in case of leak

I can do none very confidently at the moment, but at a stretch might be able to do three.

I want to be able to do them all.

I can do half of those.

Things like flat pack furniture and setting up a home network are easy/ just follow the instructions. I have myself a no for fixing the toaster though- depends what’s wrong surely?

I can all of them - I was single & lived on my own for years so made sure I didn't have to rely on anyone else.

I can and have done allow those things. My dh on the other hand would struggle!

Probably 6 or 7. I’ve never owned a car personally so haven’t needed to learn car maintenance but I reckon adding air to tyres is pretty straightforward. Never in my life has changing a plug been needed so I’m not sure that’s a hugely useful skill?

Fuse box and water - 100% yes. Could manage furniture/shelves but would rather not. I don’t drive/cycle so the car/bike stuff isn’t relevant. I wouldn't ever tamper with an oven and would buy a new toaster.

My DP works abroad a lot and I lived alone before moving in with him.

Who came up with this list?

I can do a couple of these things but not most of them.

I'm still an amazing woman.

Can you change a baby's nappy and breastfeed her at the same time to calm her down? Can you cook a meal for 4 from scratch in less than ten minutes? Can you do your weekly online shop on your phone in less than 5 minutes while walking to the station on the way to work?

Why is a woman only amazing if she can do stereotypically masculine tasks?

I've done all apart from changing the heating element in an oven. That's a step beyond either me or DH.

I can do all apart from changing the element in the oven. If I had the instructions or a YouTube thing I could do it.

Also lived alone for a few years when I was young.
One of my DD’s, away for Uni, proudly told me that she bought herself a small tool kit 👍.

I can do some of them, but I have no shame in asking for help or outsourcing tasks that aren't my skillset. I can do loads of other useful things not on your list and I am definitely amazing.

Can you remember everyone's current shoe size, clothes size, requirements for a special school event, deadline for signing up to xyz, and to wash the football kit in time, all while working your ordinary job?

Why are these things not amazing?

This isn't a 'woman' thing, it's an 'adult' thing.

You can learn to do these things to be a well functioning, self sufficient and practical adult. Anyone can do these things if they learn. They are all very easy once you know.

I have done all of them except the oil, toaster and oven element but pretty confident I could do those too with decent instructions.

Add air to a tyre - yes
Change oil - probably could, but you need to be able to lift the car
Change a wheel on your car - if strong enough yes
Fix a bike pucture- no
Put up shelving - not tried, but probably
Change a plug adhering to all safety advice and best practice - yes
Put together a cabinet-size piece of flat pack furniture - yes
Set up a home network - yes
Diganose problem and mend toaster - would buy a new one
Change element in an oven - if given instructions
Sort out a fuse box if lights go off - yes
Turn off water at mains in case of leak - yes

Definitely 7, possibly others too. But some are weird things I can't imagine doing

The toaster example is rather random and surely depends on what is wrong. I’ve never owned a car with a spare wheel, I thought most didn’t have them these days? Not sure on the oven element as it’s an expensive thing to go tinkering about with but I either have done or reckon I could do the rest since they mostly rely on following basic instructions and also you can always google stuff! I imagine it was all much harder pre internet.
Edit: not the oil change though, I thought that was a garage job and also we street park so lifting the car up and getting under (which I think it needs?) isn’t going to happen at home!

I've never done an oil change but o can do the rest I think. Toaster possibly not.

7 confidently. Echo previous posters I am also unique in my household at forward planning, the food, laundry, life requirements of the family.

I've done 10 on that list.

I can check the oil and add extra, but never drained the oil and changed it.
Never mended the oven myself... never needed to.

The only ones on that list that are actually necessary are turning off the water and dealing with the fuse box, neither of which need doing very often and can both be googled at the time. The others are optional and/or easily outsourced, so by no means necessary for being a well functioning adult.

Change a plug adhering to all safety advice and best practice

Does learning how to change a plug in the Brownies in 1986 count as best practice these days?

I've been shown/ taught how to do all of these things at some point in my life other than the toaster and the oven - whether I could remember how without the aid of youtube I'm not entirely sure.

I know I can do all of them apart from change an element in an oven but I imagine I can do. I'd certainly try.

However my written English is a bit shite so I'm considered a right thicko by many on MN

Also my 12 and 11 yos have helped me with 7 of that list.

I had to admit I did curse DH who thought it would be "fun" for me and DDs to put our newly repaired back on the car ourselves on Saturday rather than having the garage who repaired the tyre do it.

"Amazing ladies"...

Patronising nonsense.

This.

There are many ways to be an amazing woman without having to do the things on that list. When I look back over my life I've been fucking gobsmackingly amazing at times, and at others I've been a snivelling mess. Both are fine by me.

I've been single and a single parent almost my entire adult life . So somewhat reluctantly if I'm honest I can do most of these .
YouTube videos are the answer here there are videos on how to do everything!

All of them.

Though life is really too short to fix a toaster!

Skint single parent brought up by single parent. #girlpower

I can also keep 2 kids alive, remember all their personal info including food preferences and friends and teachers' names, meal plan and food shop, organize my finances, plan Christmas including buying and wrapping all gifts and cooking lunch for 12, work full time and help out at Brownies, plan holidays qnd run my own home. Do I win?