KEEPING HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue V, 29 January 1898, Page 142

KEEPING HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS.

Summing up the average cost of her table, the housekeeper is apt to add to the list such things as have been purchased from the ‘ market money,’ and consequently, at the end of the year she is at a loss to know the exact cost of the table. To avoid this there should be kept in the kitchen a small book containing menus for one week in advance, and another book, to contain a list of marketing for each day necessary to the fulfilment of these menus. This book should be taken to market and the price of each article registered when purchased. The housewife should also have a small ledger, into which these amounts may be transferred at least once a week. Another small book kept should have registered in it from time to time the dry goods necessities of the house—these under different heads: kitchen, pantry, dining-ro.m. parlour. library, and sleepingrooms. Then at the end of’eaeh month she can readilv balance her cash, and will know from dav to day the exact cost of the table. With regard to the fuel, have the coal for heating purposes in one bin, and the coal for kitchen use in another, so that the prices may be registered and the cost of the fuel calculated.

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