{ "item_title" : "Things Nobody Taught You", "item_author" : [" Mercer Dowd "], "item_description" : "Nobody sat you down and explained where the water shut-off is. This is the book that does - 120 basic skills every adult is assumed to have already.There is a particular silence that falls when something breaks and nobody in the room knows what to do. It is not the silence of stupidity. The people in that room can run a department, raise a child, read a contract. They were simply never shown this one thing, and there was never an obvious moment to ask.THINGS NOBODY TAUGHT YOU is the written-down version of the knowledge that used to be passed on and now mostly isn't. One hundred and twenty entries, two or three minutes each, in plain words with no assumed tools, no workshop and no lectures about self-sufficiency. Every entry tells you what to do, in what order, and - just as importantly - where to stop and call somebody.WHAT IS INSIDE- Water, power and the things behind the walls - finding the stopcock, resetting a breaker that keeps tripping, bleeding a radiator, stopping an overflowing toilet in ten seconds, what to do if you smell gas- Fixing what breaks without a workshop - the eight tools that cover most of it, hanging something heavy so it stays up, rescuing a stripped screw, stopping a dripping tap, patching a wall so it disappears- Food, heat and keeping things - rice that works every time, stock from what you were throwing away, telling spoiled food from food past a date, four meals from one chicken, a loaf you would actually buy- Cloth, thread and more years out of your things - a button that stays on, a seam repair, a hem, getting stains out, what a cobbler can and cannot save- Paper, money and the admin nobody explains - reading a payslip line by line, a filing system that takes ten minutes a month, cancelling something that does not want to be cancelled, disputing a charge, making a will exist- When something goes wrong - a first aid kit that matches real accidents, recognising a stroke, the kitchen fire you must never put water on, a frozen pipe, changing a tyre, jump-starting a car in the right orderPERFECT FOR- A first flat, a first house, or the first winter alone in one- Anyone who has nodded along to a conversation about stopcocks and quietly resolved to look it up later- A graduation, housewarming or eighteenth birthday gift that gets used rather than shelved- Readers who want the steps and the reasons, not encouragementThis is general information for a general reader, not professional advice. Rules and standards differ by country, several entries end by telling you to call a qualified person, and the first aid chapters are written to send you to a practical course rather than to replace one.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/886/909/9798869098504_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "59.99", "online_price" : "59.99", "our_price" : "59.99", "club_price" : "59.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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