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Bahamian Women and Money - Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:13 am

When it comes to understanding women, I feel like the village idiot. I een got a lick of sense when it comes to women, and I don't understand them. I am including my Mum in this group.

When Mum moved from Freeport, she was getting a small remittance from the NIB. She sent them a letter saying that she was moving to Canada. Then Frances hit, and her house (albeit rented house) was destroyed. She hasn't heard back from NIB. I told her to never mind about the NIB.

I put some money into an account for Mum, signed her up for a bankcard, and told the bank that whenever the account dropped below a certain level, to replenish it from my chequing account. Mum has yet to even touch the account !!! I think part of the reason is that she is afraid of using a bank machine (it might eat her card or gin up somehow and cause embarassment). And going to a teller -- well somehow banks scare Mum.

On top of that, I heard Mum tell Miss Knowlton the neighbour, that she didn't have any of "HER OWN" money. This is when alarm bells went off in my head. Those are the exact words that I used to hear from my ex-wife. I used to say to my wife -- just go and raid the household account whenever you want to go shopping or something. I have always been blessed with a good job, and money was never tight, except in the early days. But the response was "it is not MY OWN money".

Will someone please take the time to explain to this female-challenged individual, as to what difference "YOUR OWN" money is to family money. I always believed that we were a team, and what's mine is yours, and that there was always money for the odd luxury, and yet the women feel guilty spending it on themselves.

The upshot of this Mum deal, is that she borrowed $20 bucks from each grand-daughter. Her and Miss Knowlton went to town and bought canning jars and ribbons and such.

I have old apple trees on my property that are just full of apples this time of year. The trees were never sprayed, and the apples are all blemished (although delicious). Mum and Miss Knowlton were feeding the deadfall apples to the goats. They picked a pile of apples from the trees (Mum on the ladder with her wellies on at that -- I was away on business and didn't actually see it). With the apples they cut away the blemishes and cooked up a batch of apple sauce and apple jellies along with 'secret' ingredients (I'll spill -- it's staghorn sumac and tastes real good in apple jelly. I had some this morning on a toasted bagel). Then the wimmen had my oldest daughter make up some labels on the computer. They called it "Lanark Highlands Organic Apple Jelly" -- (we live in the Lanark Highlands).

This morning, Mum and Miss Knowlton loaded up their jars of jellies, applesauce, the goats milk soap with ribbons tied around it, and are heading to the farmers market in town -- the county seat. They put up the $15 for a stall rental, and they are going to be purveyors of organic 'stuff'. Mum and Miss Knowlton need their 'own' money.

I'm sitting here thinking that I hope that it isn't wasted effort and that we might get stuck with 60 jars of "Lanark Highlands Organic Apple Jelly". They could have just asked me for some money.

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