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Show SAVING WITH AN OBJECTIVE BEST Excellent Plan to Pick Out Some Definite Goal. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The family needs to be kept "toeing "toe-ing the mark" in connection with recent re-cent resolutions about saving. It Is an excellent idea to pick out some definite goal not too far off and concentrate con-centrate on saving for that. Is some member of the family graduating from school or college next June? There will undoubtedly be extra expenses ex-penses to meet for that occasion new clothes, a gift to mark the red letter day, perhaps a trip out of town if the boy or girl is being educated aw-ay from home. There's one object for saving, in which some or all the persons in the house may participate. Or a wedding may be scheduled for the near future a momentous event, and expensive. An automobile may be greatly desired by all the family, if possible before the summer time, so that pleasurable and healthful week-end trips may bo taken. Perhaps Per-haps some of the cost of the usual vacation may be diverted to this end, and other opportunities found for saving towards it. Not everyone knows that by paying cash at the time of purchasing a car a cost is saved that is concealed in Installment buying, for a charge Is made over and above the regular interest on the deferred payments. Perhaps you already have a car, a radio set, a piano, or a talking machine, ma-chine, some of the objectives many people save for. You want to take a trip somewhere, or give the whole family a good vacation at the sea-shora sea-shora or In the mountains. Every-, Every-, body should want to co-operate In saving for a general holiday. Estimate Esti-mate the cost of the kind of vacation that Is wanted, and If the amount Is more than you can reasonably hope to have ready by next July or August, see if some less expensive plan would do equally well. If you can't afford a hotel, there are country boarding houses, or summer cottages, or camping, camp-ing, each with its possibilities. Count up tlie number of weeks from now until the month you have selected for your holiday and plan to save a given giv-en amount each week until you have enough. The bureau of home economics of the United States Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture recommends that savings of this kind be included in every budget and that the weekly or monthly amounts fixed upon be set aside with absolute regularity. At the end of the period of saving you can tell whether the amount estimated is sufficient suffi-cient for the purpose In mind, and you will be even more eager to save again for the following season. |