My mother never taught me any housekeeping tricks either, and she certainly never taught me how to cook, because she couldn't stand to have people in the kitchen with her. Even if offered help, she would shoo the person away and want to do it herself. She paid for it, though. Once when I was a junior or senior in high school (so late teens and should have known better) she asked me to make bouillon. I had never seen a bouillon cube in my life and had no clue what to do with it. But it seemed like it required boiling water, so I put the teakettle on, got it boiling, and dropped the cube in the teakettle!

Ooooooh, did I get yelled at, but she did admit finally it was her fault for not teaching me how to cook! LOL which I still can't do, as you know.

Congrats on getting through the dishes!

Candy