I never learned how to tinker with engines, but my son has taken to DIY'ing -- Hokie CPA 06/07/2019 11:07AM
I was going to say that I'm completely NOT handy / DIY'er, but even I can -- Late 80s Hokie 06/07/2019 10:54AM
Do you have a news alrert set up for "millennials " -- VTSnake 06/07/2019 10:36AM
Sounds like baby boomers were bad parents and didn't teach their kids anyth ** -- DHokie 06/07/2019 10:23AM
Sounds like baby boomers were bad parents and didn't teach their kids anyth ** -- DHokie 06/07/2019 10:23AM
Sounds like baby boomers were bad parents and didn't teach their kids anyth ** -- DHokie 06/07/2019 10:23AM
Sounds like baby boomers were bad parents and didn't teach their kids anyth ** -- DHokie 06/07/2019 10:23AM
^^^ Mr Gasphoon ^^^ ** -- Brown Water 06/07/2019 10:30AM
As you pointed out ↓↓↓ YouTube is game-changer -- great2bahokie 06/07/2019 10:21AM
I'm a borderline millennial ('80) and it is shocking how many men in my -- HokieNoVA 06/07/2019 10:17AM
Thirty years ago I might have agreed. But I'm not sure changing a tire -- Tafkam Hokie 06/07/2019 12:18PM
Lol. I'm the mom and I'm the one that taught my kids to change a tire. -- GFallsFan 06/07/2019 11:16AM
I was about to reply that our daughters should also be taught these... -- EDGEMAN 06/07/2019 12:12PM
My pops can do complex plumbing, electrical and home building work. I can’t -- RoswellGAHokie 06/07/2019 10:15AM
Older people have more experience and accumulated more stuff, wow -- jmanatVT 06/07/2019 09:57AM
Pathetic. I was born '81, so I've been told I'm a millennial. -- King Jaffe Joffer 06/07/2019 09:53AM
So, you were like 8 when Coming to America was released??? -- Gobble Gobble 06/07/2019 10:11AM
It's ok...when you read my posts you can still use James Earl Jone's voice.** -- King Jaffe Joffer 06/07/2019 10:14AM
I've found having the right tool goes a long way towards opening jars... -- EDGEMAN 06/07/2019 09:56AM
I use the blunt end of a church key to gently pry open the seal. ** -- GFallsFan 06/07/2019 10:14AM
Nice tool, and all it costs is my man card? That's a steal.... ** -- King Jaffe Joffer 06/07/2019 09:59AM
I'd wager this is more and more true with each generation for a variety -- BG Hokie 06/07/2019 09:52AM
Teach him where he can find the information to do things, and... -- EDGEMAN 06/07/2019 09:54AM
Or, to look at it another way -- Beerman 06/07/2019 09:43AM
Discretion is the better part of valor ** -- typed by ben 06/07/2019 09:16AM
What's the worst part? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 06/07/2019 09:18AM
Death ** -- Nova Hokie 95 06/07/2019 09:24AM
Biting off more than you can chew. This has been the Aphorism Minute ** -- typed by ben 06/07/2019 09:20AM
Im Gen X (barely...born in '78), and while i have a decent amount of DIY -- HokieGator 06/07/2019 09:12AM
Got to remember there is an excellent tool that wasn't available... -- EDGEMAN 06/07/2019 09:29AM
Yes! You tube. I have an impressive story about Millennials using youtube. -- GFallsFan 06/07/2019 10:42AM
Yep. Youtube'd how to install a backsplash and did it myself. -- HokieGator 06/07/2019 09:34AM
Change the oil in all my cars now, a couple being euros. Youtube.... -- King Jaffe Joffer 06/07/2019 10:05AM
I think what it comes down to is, if I had to do it, I'd take some time -- hoosnowahokie 06/07/2019 09:21AM
Yeah. Scope of a project factors in. Something like changing a headlight -- HokieGator 06/07/2019 09:32AM
Yeah, I have a buddy that ran into a disaster -- hoosnowahokie 06/07/2019 09:35AM
This is absolutely critical: Can you do the job well enough the first time? -- typed by ben 06/07/2019 09:29AM
Why do something if you can pay for someone to do it for you? ** -- darnellm 06/07/2019 09:11AM
Because finding competent people to do things for you -- Tafkam Hokie 06/07/2019 09:28AM
Yeah, but the examples are ridiculous. Resetting a circuit breaker? Opening -- CochraneResident 06/07/2019 09:13AM
Remember they've stopped teaching kids how to read analog clocks... -- EDGEMAN 06/07/2019 09:23AM
Every day with the millennial bashing. REPORT: Baby boomers are terrible -- CochraneResident 06/07/2019 09:08AM
Total bushwah. Again, I'm not a dad, just a boomer but I've been steeped in -- PhotoHokieNC 06/07/2019 09:13AM
I'm not a dad (of human children, anyway) but what constitutes -- PhotoHokieNC 06/07/2019 09:05AM
Boomers --> Gen X --> Millennials ** -- hoosnowahokie 06/07/2019 09:08AM
Yeah, I get that, but that kind of doesn't answer the question exactly. -- PhotoHokieNC 06/07/2019 09:10AM
My guess, boomer who has become a dad -- VaTechie 06/07/2019 09:15AM
Boomer Dad was a dad to a Gen x'er. ** -- hoosnowahokie 06/07/2019 09:12AM
My Dad was in the Silent Generation, but I'm solidly Gen X. ** -- mica 06/07/2019 10:47AM
OK. I just didn't see the distinction, but that'll be the operative notion -- PhotoHokieNC 06/07/2019 09:14AM
It's MTV's fault ** -- bigbadbird 06/07/2019 09:01AM
And whose fault is that? Seems like Gen X parents should teach their kids -- hoosnowahokie 06/07/2019 09:01AM
The generation before worked all the time too -- bigbadbird 06/07/2019 09:03AM
The generation before probably had the same reservations about the... -- EDGEMAN 06/07/2019 09:09AM