Her mother couldn't get used to living in the western style house Mei-chen built, so Mom insisted on living in the traditional family compound house, and periodically brings back bamboo sheaves that had fallen from the mountain trail for cleaning. In her daily life she observes the maxim, "save where you can save, use what you can use."
母親住不慣她蓋的木屋洋房，堅持要住三合院，並不時從山徑上揀回掉落的竹殼回來清理，日常器物也是「能省則省，能用則用」。