On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:02:18PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> She'd never been permitted to manage her own money - it wasn't
> expected that she should. My parents (and her other children, of course)
> had to teach her how to manage it - she'd dealt with money on the
> level of 'take what your husband gives you and somehow feed and clothe
> a family of six on it'. But she had no idea what was in the bank account,
> or how to handle having one. She couldn't pay bills, not even rent.
Interestingly, my grandmother, who died last year, managed her husband's
money - paying all the bills, keeping all the books, talking to the
accountant. My grandfather claims she was as competant as a trained accountant.
But she never earnt any salary all of her own. (It was a family business -
she didn't actually pay her husband a salary and not herself, the money was
just 'family money'.)
She kept the books for her father before she married.
When she died, the sons of the family gathered together and taught my
grandfather two things: basic cooking skills, and how to pay bills.
Mary.
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