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Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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luded in the Rent column in our accounting system is $7.30 amonth for G. I. insurance, and $1.50 a month for group insurance, alsoour bill for coal and wood. The six months total was $339.93, or $13.08a week. Our tip: Do not plunge over your head on housing. Make somethingelse do until you can get a better deal on that ever-present home ofyour dreams. Our housing arrangement and our care with the food bill we con-sider our two master strokes. Any other policy would have shriveledour bank account to less than zero. The Melt sons Seven-ColumnBudget for Six 3Months Food (approximately $20 a week) $ 518.00 Rent, insurance and fuel 339.93 Extras (everything from a dentists L „l to beer) 175.00 Clothes 78.00 Furniture \ . . . 314.00 Routine (bus fare, cigarettes, phone cals) . . 78.00 Savings , • • 428.00 Total $1930.93 Yes, we know our total income was only $18 5. Where didthat other $85 come from? Well . . . who cares We told youthat we are not accountants. 162 HOW AM Kit 11 A LIVES
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J • We want a new house, a new car, all the fine stuff of which dreams are made. This would be nice—if you had $14,000. Aftc rent, our records show that we still had $245 to spend. Column 3 in our ledger. \\ e call it Extras. It is a catchallranging from dentists bills to a rare bottle oi beer. It includescleanin .. postage stamps, haircuts, magazines, and all we have ofenterta pment costing monej a verj infrequent movie. Ourtotal f .• tin- i- $175, we mind it? Do we miss the carefree fun of those far-offdays when we couldnt bring ourselves to spend an evening at home? We not only dont mind it, we like it better this way. Andheres another tip: Only the proper frame of mind can keep youhappy on a zero entertainment budget. When you have that,youll find your entertainment at home, and youll save money—if you want to save money. Oh yes! Clothes. In

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