The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-02-03
DIME COLLECTING.
a Praisworfhy Mania For Saving Ten
Gent Pieces.


| scheme has been diseovered-no one
! knows by whom--which enables every
young man and every young woman who
| spends freely and has not been able to lay
aside a stated amount in the regular way
TO save good portion Of his or her money.
The scheme is never to spend dime.
For plan of saving it is one Of the best
ever invented
Is the plan popular? Yes, indeed; hun
dreds of young men, and young women,
too. have caught it, and nearly all who hear
or read of the scheme are captivated and
try it for a longer or shorter time,
A gentleman dine-save in ar interest
ing talk to the st. Louis Republican gives
some Of his experiences, and says: ''The
requirements are that You must never part
with a dime under any circumstances.
Whenever yon receive one in change put it
away for safe keeping. The more dimes
yos get in change the greater your savings
will be. You are to make any sacrifice
rather than part with one dime. If you
when you want a cigar, go without the
cigar. If you want lunch and have moth
ing but dimes, go without lunch. If you
have only dime in your pocket and want
to ride home in street car brace up and
walk. Save your dimes.
Now, when you come to think of it,
dime is no small sum. If you save all the
dimes you get in change you save nearly
one-half of your small expenditures. If
you are not free with your money, your
savings Of course will not amount to a
great deal; still they will come to an inter
esting sum 10 time. The plan seems to be,
as I sand, devised for the purpose of max
ing people who spend money freely save
part of their pocket money. 1t good
thing, too, in the way OF teaching man
frugality and thrift. | believe that any
one who learns to save in the small things
will not be long in learning to save in large
things. Try the thing while and see
what comes OF. it,
A young married man had been figuring
up expenses with his wife. and they decid-
ed to economize. He heard of the dime
scheme, and became an advocate and de-
voice of it at once. He said: You
wouldn't believe how profited by it. 1t
became matter of the greatest interest to
me, in the first place, to secure change that
had no dimes in it. In the second place it
became interesting and amusing to deny
myself certain things | otherwise
would buy ithout any thought of saving.
Everything | denied myself became
really a source of pleasure 10 me, and |
would not only enjoy the saving OF the
money that would otherw Use have been
spent, but | enjoyed telling my wife about
it. Furthermore, | felt the keenest inter-
est in the pile of dimes that was constant
ly growing l felt free to spend in some
things because | knew that | would get
my return in dimes. The desire to add to
my pile, however, kept me from buying
many and many a thing | should have
been as eager before to secure.
This gentleman saved in six months
nearly 500 in dimes. He adjures every
young man to save his dimes.
Now" said the gentleman's wife, ''you
need not think that he is the only member
of tie firm that does any dime-saving. II
you know what a walker I had become
through my unwillingness to part with
dime you would open your eyes in Won
der. Often and often have walked home
from Fourth street because of having no
other money than dimes. | have saved
nearly all my church money. / never buy
a fashion paper, aud as for candy, | get ii
by the box or not at ALL have saved at
the market, in the shops and at the stores.
never spend dime, and baye gone with
ont many many things and taken a posi-
tive pleasure in the sacrifice.
Several of the boys started in " it'll me,
said young gentleman who fell to talking
with the reporter OF St. Louis Republican
about the dime habit, land don't sup
pose any of US intended to keep the thing
up, or to do anything more than try it on
for day or two, just for the fun OF the
thing The practice of self-denial is a
mighty enjoyable thing, though, il yon
can see yourself prospering at so much
denial | never cared much for rnony. but
this dime business has made regular
miser out of me. But l was going to tell
you about how | profited by it,
"When adopted the practice | had four
silver dollars in my pocket, half-dollar, a
quarter, dime and nickel The dime
took out of my trousers pocket and put
into vest pocket. The nickel paid for
a street car fare, the quarter handed to
newsboy on the car for paper. The boy
returned me two dimes. These went into
the vest pocket. The half dollar I handed
at noon 10 the cashier at the restaurant
where | took a thirty cent lunch, and | re-
ceived two dimes in change. Fifty cents
put away. should have bought cigar
ordinarily, but | was fifty cents behind,
and felt had TO save to make my money
hold out for necessaries. In the evening
handed one Of the dollars TO the conductor
in the ear going home, and may be hung
if he didn't return to me eight dimes and
three nickeis in change
Il would not have believed tho thing