6. In what ways should the “higher life” of the family or individual be considered in the division of the income?
7. Plan to keep account of every penny of spending money for one year. Look over and criticize at the end of the year.
8. Plan a budget for a family of five in your community having $1000. Suppose they have $2000, how would you change your budget?
9. Work out with your parents a budget or schedule of probable household expenditures for your home for the next month; the next year.
CHAPTER XX
SYSTEM IN MANAGEMENT
The housekeeper should learn to use the labor-saving devices for her records that are now employed so largely in the world of business. This equipment should include a desk with fittings for systematized and rapid work. A roll-top desk, with pigeonholes and drawers is convenient, but a flat-topped desk with drawers below gives a larger space for writing, although it has to be supplemented by boxes to take the place of pigeonholes. Such desks may be purchased for twenty dollars and upward, in woods to match other furniture. It is a pleasure to have artistic desk furnishings, but a large amount may be spent on these, and the desk still be unequipped for practical purposes.
Files and loose-leaf books.—A card file is as advantageous to the housekeeper as to the business man. Some desks contain a place for the card file in the upper right-hand drawer.