tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post8373617562943861722..comments2024-01-03T01:40:26.911-08:00Comments on Life Drawings: 8 August 1956 “Budget: Your Paycheck and Your Marriage Article Continued and a Homemaker’s Poem”50sgalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-20524167871850426382012-04-29T11:01:28.807-07:002012-04-29T11:01:28.807-07:00Just discovered your blog ... this is all great st...Just discovered your blog ... this is all great stuff! I so remember my mother telling about her job in the credit office of a furniture store. "Just because people have things doesn't mean they can afford things," she would say. "You never know how far overdue they're running, and when their things are going to be repossessed." Or, in the more direct words of a friend: "God has supplied all your needs ... so if God hasn't supplied, you don't need it!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-5391216131577905302010-08-10T17:33:02.200-07:002010-08-10T17:33:02.200-07:00Been on vacation. That was a very good article, l...Been on vacation. That was a very good article, like you said, in depth. Very practical. I remember my father refusing to have credit cards. People used lay-away a lot more, and my husband and I both remember "Christmas Clubs" that banks offered -- you put in $1 a week (or more -- my husband was just a kid and put in $1) and at the end of the year, by Christmas time, you had money for presents.<br /><br />My father did charge groceries at the local grocery store when I was a young teen, because he was out of work, but then paid it back.<br /><br />There just did not seem to be as MUCH stuff to buy back then, or stores to buy it in, as there is now. There is seemingly no end to stores and goods, and now we can buy anything we can possibly imagine online, too.<br /><br />And, as you know, lots of stuff we "need" today didn't even exist back then, like microwaves, DVD players, or computers. Not as much stuff TO spend your money on.<br /><br />If you missed seeing a movie, you waited 2 years until it came on tv, and if you missed it then, too bad. Now, we can buy them.<br /><br />Parents back then did not want their children to scrounge like they had to. My father was born in 1915 and went through the depression, and did not want us to be cold or hungry. We were allowed to raid the refrigerator any time we wanted to, even if it spoiled our dinner. I used to like to eat the stale Italian bread and dunk it in my tea (still do -- tastes great), and that made him furious, "Eat the fresh loaf, don't eat the stale stuff!" Those people went through misery that we can't even imagine. He remembered when he HAD to eat stale bread.<br /><br />Middle class people were swayed by Dr. Spock, who proclaimed permissive parenting. They lost confidence in their own common sense because of this. The children of these people went to college and were influenced by people who taught them to use drugs and riot. Us working class kids got married young and went to work or in the military.Roxannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196747496651546918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-71225657203188239032010-08-10T02:20:41.155-07:002010-08-10T02:20:41.155-07:00Just finished reading the article, very interestin...Just finished reading the article, very interesting indeed.<br />As the articles tells earning and spending money is a partnership, where women and husband are involved. In fact it’s a question of common sense. We have to consider the family above the individual (I do not know if what I’m trying to tell is understandable) and that’s where in my mind a lot of people go wrong.<br />If you think as an individual, you try to meet your own needs at first and only after that you think at your family, according to this article (which I agree with) this leads to spending money a wrong way, and no money left for family purposes or even saving for later.<br />I also think that a lot of the divorces are the result of putting the individual above the family.<br />Pay attention, I’m not telling that one should repress his own desires to make the family happy. No, not at all, in my mind a happy homemaker makes (as she is the base of the family) a happy family, but a happy homemaker is also happy when her family is happy and therefore she has to make compromises.<br />I do need some deeper reflexion about all this, but I think, a smart managed budget leads to a vintage life style : <br />-Buying cleverly (local an season bounded)<br />-Looking after the house and the home – and all the little things making a home (avoids useless expenses caused by a lack of taking care)<br />-Having a vegetable garden and a fruit orchard (canning and freezing products)<br />-Avoid useless buying’s<br />-... the list is too long to name them all<br /><br /> In any case, 50’s gall, if you have other articles about budgeting, or spending money the right way, I would be very interested in them. I now you’ve already written about those subjects, I think I should perhaps go through the archives of the blog.<br /><br />Wow, happy to be on track again, I missed those reflexions!<br /><br />EefEefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08195376958434783160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-33075188614732605742010-08-10T01:20:25.164-07:002010-08-10T01:20:25.164-07:00Hello 50'gal,
I'm back from beeing off li...Hello 50'gal,<br /><br />I'm back from beeing off line for a while.<br />I'm verry interested in that article to...<br />Budgetting is one of my weak points. I do not realy have to stick to a budget to "get around" a month, and I suppose that's why I always protract making a budget. Not that I pour monney down the drain, but I suppose - No I do not suppose, I know, that if I tracked exactely my expenses, I could spend monney on a better way and save more.<br /><br />In any case I'll read the article wth a lot of intrest and one of my september challenges will be tracking expenses.<br /><br />Have a very nice day!<br /><br />EefEefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08195376958434783160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-43598882747557994192010-08-09T22:00:13.070-07:002010-08-09T22:00:13.070-07:00Yes, please finish this article. This is one area...Yes, please finish this article. This is one area, budgeting, that my hubby and I have been lucky in that even though we don't discuss it as much as we should we agree on the big stuff- no credit card debt, no big home we can't afford on his salary alone. But now that times are leaner we could use some old fashioned real advice. <br /><br />Sarah HSarah H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-63841150937999994712010-08-09T19:07:50.353-07:002010-08-09T19:07:50.353-07:00Please share the rest of the article, 50's Gal...Please share the rest of the article, 50's Gal, it has commonsense about it that is elusive in today's articles found in magazines.<br /><br />When I was pregnant with my oldest back in 2001, my mother gave me a Baby book from Better Homes and Gardens, complete with pictures from the fifties and sixties, although the book copyright was I think 1969.<br /><br />It's practical advice helped me to become the mother I am today, I wish i could share it with you, as you would enjoy looking just at the black and white photos (yes I still have the book :) ).......<br /><br />I do try my upmost to live within my means, I even have what I call an allowance (pin money), I have always worked within my hubby's income, as my full time working days were limited (more gravy in the bank than anything else).........<br /><br />What is commonsense in the old days no longer seems viable today........<br /><br />I've always said to my boys when pointing out those huge McMansions on our drive along the river that a home is not a home if it's not filled with love.......when we married I talked to my hubby about staying home for my children and that I would rather live in the smallest house and see them grow up, as opposed to living in the biggest home and spending my entire life working to afford it.<br /><br />As you already know I work very part-time as a cashier now, but it helps out my family and does not interfere with my primary role as housewife and mother.<br /><br />My children come first and no amount of dollars and cents is worth anytime away from them.<br /><br />I am most interested in reading the rest of this article, please scan it ,,<br /><br />Much thanks,<br />Mom in CanadaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-89366710707066626112010-08-09T14:23:02.764-07:002010-08-09T14:23:02.764-07:00Yes 50sgal we're here, reading and enjoying al...Yes 50sgal we're here, reading and enjoying all you write. Thanks for your effort and I'm very interested in the topic - encourages me to do even better. LindaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-81076362995299035202010-08-09T10:54:48.566-07:002010-08-09T10:54:48.566-07:00I am finding this article very interesting and I t...I am finding this article very interesting and I think very much needed today as it was back then. It's funny (again I'm going to refer to my grandma who was a 30-ish wife and mother at this time)-she and my grandpa would NEVER have a credit card. She had a credit card in her 70's and 80's and she always told me that "Your Grandpa would roll over in his grave if he knew I had this and used it." LOL I don't think they ever bought anything on credit. She was a working mother and they saved everything they could. We wives have much more influence over our husbands than we could ever imagine. What we think of them matters so much. After many years of marriage I'm finally getting that!DarcyLeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14721821786563546087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-58453137350241021512010-08-09T07:41:16.818-07:002010-08-09T07:41:16.818-07:00I'm not sure if anyone is actually interested ...I'm not sure if anyone is actually interested in this article. If not, let me know, because I won't bother scanning the rest of it if there is no interest. Again, I know not all like to comment, but I am not sure who likes or dislikes it as I am getting no feedback. I guess I just miss our old conversations here. We used to have such good discussions on the various articles I would share with you. So, anyone out there, let me know. I just need to throw a stone in the pond now and again to make sure there is a bottom, if you know what I mean.<br />I have also been working a lot on redoing the website so it is easier to use and allow me to realistically and more easily update it every day. But, again, if no one is out there, I don't want to feel I am just wasting my time. Even a 'hey' would be fine. Thanks50sgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.com