Some of these skills mentioned - sewing, cooking decent meals, driving a stick are life skills.
But please don't try to cut your own hair unless you're in dire straits!
Operating a manual car is as much as a life skill as operating a manual loom. It'll be relegated to specialist hobby eventually. Some things are destined to be replaced by fully automatic systems, for the gain of productivity and convenience. An auto-loom can do the work of many, many people, so using a manual loom is now a craft show and museum pastime.
