Material Culture - Question of the week

Okay: after struggling with how to phrase it, this is a good take on the question:

Identify something you know how to "make" (i.e. a technique for creating, modifying, adapting an object) that you learned through observation or informal instruction.

"Cootie-catchers," "nit-pickers," "fortune-tellers" - whatever name they go by - are perhaps the golden example: it is unlikely (in North America) that you learned them from school, like from a teacher or in the classroom. More likely, you learned them from peers.

Edit: the loser metacafe.com plug-in with a neat video started acting up

Other examples could include how to fold a fitted sheet, how to change a bra under an item of clothing, how to stack logs in a fireplace, how to make a dumpling: anything that involves stuff.