HOUSEKEEPING

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 28 January 1933, Page 7

HOUSEKEEPING

THAT AWFCL BUDGET Those horrid accounts that will never square! What a bugbear thfry are to the young housewife ! There are so many odd T unexpected small expenses in a house; things for which the most carefully planned budget is apt to make no allowance. And if one is not careful one drifts into a go-as-you please attitude of feeling that there is so much in one’s housekeeping purse, and of using that amount hap-hazard, until it has gone. A fatal attitude. Ono must make a. budget of some sort, however difficult it is. There are many helps for the household budget; one of the nearest is a type of diary ruled Tor daily and weekly expenditures. This gives one a ready made and definite chart of items, to which one can apportion a certain sum per w’cck, -and refuse to go beyond that sum. A small notebook, with a pencil attached, in one’s handbag, will serve the purpose of listing all those items for which one is not given a bill, and for the odd fares and so on, which eat up the spare cash so surprisingly. It is definitely a mistake for the young housewife to run bills of any kind which can be avoided. * There arc some things such as milk, and so on, for which a weekly account is almost inevitable, but the wise beginner will pay these things religiously, every week, and will avoid putting on the hill such items as eggs and butter, which swell the total unbelievably. A big account which has to be paid in one fell swoop, at an unexpected moment —creates a sort of paralysis over the rest of the household expenditure and it is very often months before one can get “ straight again.”