Boomer skills that 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 where technology was already an integral part of daily life — are beginning to outnumber the older generations who were only introduced to tech in their later years.

And as automation continues to change more aspects of our homes and jobs, formerly essential manual skills like switchboard operation or being a human calculator have died out.

Sure, it’s in the name of progress, but even with positive change comes loss, and more than a few life skills society used to take for granted are falling by the wayside even now. (That’s so sad. Alexa, play "Despacito.")

From ironing your clothes to the ways we communicate, here are a couple skills that should be kept on reserve in case of emergency, and some that can just go extinct.