I’m lucky in a way because my whole life my greatest hobby has simply been taking things apart and putting them back together.
When I was about 11, I took a Timex clock apart. Labelled all the parts, and put it back together.
It Worked!
Didn’t work good, but it worked!
So I always considered myself pretty self sufficient. And you’re right. Many, if not most, don’t have a clue.
I’m stocked up enough to make it for quite a while. But I’m way, way too close to the Seattle-Tacoma-Portland metro district to be able to last long term here.
If I was forty miles east, I’d be in much better shape.
ROFL! You sound like my daughter and husband. He found her one day dismantling the police scanner. "I wanted to see how it works daddy." She was 3.
If I was forty miles east, I’d be in much better shape.
The biggest "city" in the county I live is Chincoteague Island, pop ~4,500. The closest "real" cities are Salisbury and Ocean City,MD and they are 50 miles away. Unfortunately so many of those "without a clue" are migrating to these areas and causing those of us with a clue undue grief and angst.