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Show B- CarefulBudgeting Is Maic-Workcr; Makes Money Talk By BETTT WELLS N'CE upon a time it wasn't con-sidercd con-sidercd quite nice to talk about money. Genteel ladies hid their poverty behind much-darned lace curtains and "paying guests." and people went around with those crack-the-face smiles because of the bills on their desks at home. More and more in the last few years, this old tradition has receded nr.d now we all seem to have a pretty healthy regard for budgets, which is mathematical mathe-matical magic that makes dollars sit up and talk. Here arc a few rules for spending the family fortune for-tune so as to make both ends meet: Always let your right hand know what your left hand is doing. And let the whole family in on the budget and give them a voice in working it out. Then agree that oversteps will be met with tolerance toler-ance and the "Kitty." (An item all human budgets should include it's mm A budget Is mathematical magic I that makes dollars talk. while. a sinking fund, an anchor to windward wind-ward for the times you'll miscalculate miscalcu-late on the cost of that dinner bridge, or spend the milk money, oh. foolish lady, on a new bonnet.) If you arc a moncy-through-a-hole-ln-my purse sort of person and get your Income weekly, while your bills come monthly, try the envelope system. Put so much for each oncoming on-coming bill in the envelope every week and consider thnt once you've deposited your money there, it's the same as paid out. Keep on office ns conscientiously as you keep house in a pleasant spot to settle down for your home work. File bills nnd receipts carefully; care-fully; balance your bank book and have a spike for day-by-day grocery gro-cery slips, or better still a day book for grocery lists. Here nlso you ought to keep lots of sharp pencils nnd crisp clean paper to figure on For buying-on-time items, remember re-member to make a place for them In apportioning your weekly money. That will keep you from getting into trouble when payments that seemed so easy nt first begin to look like major catastrophies every time their due date rolls nround. Buying on time Is n fine method for many of us to acquire big things, but unless un-less the budget says "yes," those seemingly small payments may look like the war debt after a while. C Hv Hetty Wdl.-VNU Service. |