Sleep Story 207 - Letters to a Young Housekeeper
Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults
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Keeping a Memorandum of Accounts
You would have to keep a careful record of everything that you spend. Each family has to decide for itself what proportion should be allowed for these different expenses? With your income of 22 hundred dollars a year, it is safe to allow 50 cents a day per person for all food, the house rent. I hope you won't think me cruel when i advise you to keep away from shops unless you have something to buy. For if one doesn't see the fascinating things, one doesn't feel the need of them. Bargains are a snare and a delusion, and depend upon it. One spends less money by getting something at its regular price when one actually needs it, than in getting something
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