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My Husband’s Poor Grandmother Left Her House to Him – When We Opened Her Wardrobes, We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes
My husband had a grandmother. He would spend every summer at her place. She never minded it. Back in those days, she ran her own business. She single-handedly managed everything, selling medicinal herbs to local pharmacies. My husband doesnt recall exactly how it all worked, but he remembers that for those times, she earned quite a lot. She was a woman with a rather particular temperament. She loved my husband dearly, never scrimping when it came to food, but she would never give him any pocket money for little treats or outings. Everyone always assumed she was saving up for something.
His grandmother had big wardrobes at home, filled with drawers and compartmentseach one always locked up tightly. As a child, my husband was endlessly curious about what might be inside, but his grandmother always insisted it was all for her work. Then, the world changed. More and more people started their own businesses, and the competition left her behind. Thats when she began to work as a healer. She never accepted payment for her services, but plenty of very wealthy people would visit her.
We used to visit her while she was still with us. She lived in great poverty, dressed in tatty old clothes, and ate extremely frugally. We always brought food along, but shed refuse to take any. Shed say we shouldnt spoil herthat she was used to living that way.
When she passed away, she left her house to my husband. When we came to sort out the inheritance, we discovered an enormous supply of food in her larder, but it was all long past its best. It turned out that grateful clients would bring her all this food, yet shed never eaten any of it. But the real surprise came when we opened those wardrobes. Inside, there were countless expensive items from the 1990sa whole museum full of rarities. All piled up in incredible quantities. Why did she keep her money tied up in things that would lose their value? I cant make sense of this woman…
