The Secret Of Wealth

Study the game of living--it is a financial game like conducting a great department store.

Don't accept fourteen ounces when you are paying for a full pound.

Buy the common necessities when they are low in price, and buy enough to carry you through the times of high prices.

This applies of course to non-perishable articles, but good housekeepers know how to provide even some of the perishables, such as eggs and butter, against the high cost of these foods in early spring.

Family waste is the largest waste in this Country.

Enough food is thrown away every day in the United States to feed the hungry of half of Europe.

Business concerns understand and practice rigid saving.

They study how to save a fraction of a cent even in the smallest details, such as the issuing of lead pencils to their employees, or the placing of an electric light.

"If everybody in the United States saved a dime a day the total would be $10,000,000 a day or $3,650,000,000 in one year, which is more than all the amount of money in circulation in this Country.''

Try this for a month: Every day do without something which will save a dime. Perhaps you can save it by buying a less expensive cut of meat, or by doing for yourself one of the tasks you are accustomed to hire somebody to do for you.

A dime a day will keep a man in all the overcoats he needs for all the seasons of the year.

A dime a day will provide a woman with a warm and stylish winter suit every year.

A dime a day will provide an education for the baby boy or girl, and the fund will be ready when the child is old enough to require it.

Resolved: To so order my affairs that my labor will be a pleasure, my expenses will be lessened, my earning power increased-- to the end that I shall have more time, more enjoyment, more money. 

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