but I would love to pass down everything I had learned to others, hopefully making someone's life easier, otherwise what a waste! 👀

I suspect it has something to do with the decline of the aristocracy. Also, a general modern sentiment that we come from nowhere, have no history, our lives are a blank canvas. In other words, people don't really care where they came from or about passing anything on. 

andyflattery

this is really cool, I've also seen the family cookbooks being passing down:) it's so nice that I wonder when and why these traditions getting lost.