>>Of course I do all the maintenance and repairs myself though.
Which is yet another skill you applied yourself to and learned, beyond your job skills and frugal-living financial skills, all of which you show evidence of in a short post. None of which, I'm afraid, this woman will ever have.
I don't know if was learned as much as it was inherited...I am %100 Polish LOL. No lace curtains though...my wife wouldn't stand for them. ;)