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The Helper: A Help for Those Who Wish to Save and Make Money and to Avoid Sickness (Classic Reprint)
Robert McMeans
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-08-04.
ISBN 9781332136100
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Excerpt from The Helper: A Help for Those Who Wish to Save and Make Money and to Avoid Sickness
Excellent Advice. - P. T. Barnum, in "The Art of Money Getting, " says: Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress; live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income. A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending. Here is a recipe which I recommend; I have found it to work an excellent cure for extravagance, and especially for mistaken economy: When you find that you have no surplus at the end of the year, and yet have a good income, I advise you to take a few sheets of paper and form them into a book and mark down every item of expenditure. Post it every day or week in two columns, one headed "necessities, " or even "comforts, " and the other headed "luxuries, " and you will find that the latter column will be double, treble, and frequently ten times greater than the former. The real comforts of life cost but a small portion of what most of us can earn. Dr. Franklin says, 'it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture.' The old suit of clothes, and the old bonnet and dress, will answer for another season; the Croton or spring water will taste better than champagne; a cold bath and a brisk walk will prove more exhilarating than a ride in the finest coach; a social chat, an evening's reading in the family circle, or an hour's play of 'hunt the slipper' and 'blind man's buff, ' will be far more pleasant than a fifty or five hundred dollar party, when the reflection on the difference in cost is indulged in by those who begin to know the pleasures of saving."
A Money-Making Scheme. - The advertiser's "plan and full particulars" as given below may not be what the purchasers expected, yet the information, if put to a practical test, is worth many times the price asked.
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