As a tailor, Lavender could not afford to spend much money on calling. She would reach out to her relatives and friends
occasionally when she received extra income from repairing clothes in addition to finances that her husband would provide for family upkeep. Thus, her calls greatly depended on the availability of funds after ensuring that basic housing needs such as food, children’s medicine, and school equipment such as books and pens for her children had been purchased. Her family and friends would also call her occasionally to know how she was faring on. She would call her friend to set up a meeting so that they could discuss the strains of marriage that resulted from adultery suspicion of their husbands, abuse and alcoholism, which was a pertinent issue in most young families in rural settings.