From balancing your checkbook to ironing your clothes, many vintage skills are becoming obsolete

You used to be able to tell a lot about a person by the cut of their gib, the pleat of their pants or the tidiness of their handwriting.

These days, with technology streamlining so much of our modern lives, there are fewer individual skills that one needs to get by. For example, when was the last time you balanced your checkbook?

Digital natives — people who were born into a world…