When I was first married a child-bride, I did not know how to turn on a stove or keep a house. My grandmother was concerned about me living in the rough of northern New England without any cooking or housekeeping skills. She planned on sending her housekeeper up for a couple of weeks to teach me the basic points of home management and cooking. You know, she sort of came along as a gift, like the 12 place settings of sterling that I also recieved when I married. Well, my husband and I were so church-mouse poor we could not have fed Gramma's housekeeper, never mind have the equipment and furnishings for a really well-appointed home.LOL
Did I tell you about the time I was subsistance farming and received a gold purse and a shimmery evening gown?
LOL!! Grandma sounds like a character.