Competence. Now in convenient book format
30 must-have life skills every capable adult should perfect before turning 30.
You're old enough to own property and have a family, but can you safely open a bottle of champagne? Or change a flat tire? 30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning 30 provides idiot-proof instructions for mastering these and other essential, face-saving, and possibly life-saving skills.
You'll learn how to...
- wrap a present
- start a successful fire in a fireplace, at a campsite, and in a barbecue
- finish a piece of furniture
- get a raise
- order wine at a restaurant without getting stiffed
- parallel park in three breathtakingly beautiful movements
- dance a "slow dance" without looking like an idiot
- use a full place setting properly, including chopsticks and Asian soup spoons
- clean your place in under 45 minutes, when friends, relatives, or prospective lovers are coming by unexpectedly, and soon
- hold your liquor
- cure a hangover
- do the Heimlich Maneuver
- use a compass
- change a flat
- jump start a car
- open a champagne bottle
- send a drink to someone's table
- cook one "signature meal"
- whistle with your fingers
- take good pictures
- fold a fitted sheet
- remove common stains
- sew a button
- carve turkey, lasagna, and birthday cake
- hold a baby
- change a diaper
- keep a plant alive for more than a year
- make dogs and cats love you
- help someone (an older or ill person, a woman you're trying to impress, your mother) out of a car
- write superior thank you notes
