Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-09-10
THIS FAMILY OF ISEF.
SAVES ON $40 PER :
MONTH
Father. Mother and Six Year
Old Son Live Well and
Manage to Bank
Surplus.
IT'S EASY TO Do WHEN
YOU UNDERSTAND It
Four Families in Same Apartment
4 House Do Washing Together
and Otherwise Divide Work
and Expenses--All Are
Happy.

That there is one question in which
every person in this city with tne
exception of children who need not
worry about it ALL Is intensely
interested. is evident from the
interest manifested in the articles
appearing in The Citizen on the cost
of living All must live and II costs
money to live, all wish to i've as
well as circumstances will permit
naturally, and anything which illus
trates the ability - live well on
modest means Is of 1elp to many
who may now be wasteful in the con-
duct of their households. The let
ters which The Citizen has received
from people on this vial question:
have come from housewives who en-
ploy a system in tho management OF
the home and have a definite pur-
pose for laying by part OF thelr
husbands earnings every week OF
month The people who do not em-
ploy any rigid system have not tax
en- the trouble to write at all. The
following note was received from
lady i'm the Highlands yesterday:
editor of The Citizen:
"If YOU will send a reporter to our
house | will tell him how family
of three can live on less than $50 a
month We keep an expense book
and know exactly what 1t costs TO
live"
In Furnished House.
ITnon calling at the address given,
a Citizen reporter was met at the
door by a neatly dressed woman OF
perhaps thirty years or age me
house where this family lives Is
double house which is rented furnlsh-
ed for light housekeeping. The apart
ments of the family in question con-
sist of two rooms. kitchen and
living room, pretty cramped quarters
for a family of three, but yet clean
and cosy. The furniture is the SIM
plest, but the rooms are mace az
tractve by tasteful decorations IN
the way of pictures, white curtains
and a few light draperies. a com
Portable porch extends across the
front of the house and there Is
small porch in the rear which IS
much used in the summer time.
back yard gives ample room Tor
hanging out the washing of tour
families and at the side of the house
is a flower bed set with collectloh
of thriving plants. This same place
if neglected. would make a dreary
sort of home and one TO Whlch
workman would not care to come
every night after work, but as II Is
IL Is homelike and inviting and the
family occupying it is apparently
happy.
The lady of the house said her hus-
band
by profession, but had TO leave
well-paying position in the east and
come to Albuquerque for his health.
Under the advice of physician ne
did not attempt to work at his pro-
fession here-it is doubtful If sur
ficient amount of that kind of work
can be had here-but is driving
grocery delivery wagon to be out in
the open air as much as possible.
While he has been offered more
wages to do other kinds of work he
prefers. his present position because
the work keeps him out or doors
1t may be mentioned that by reason
of careful living and the avoidance OF
over exertion, the husband has much
improved i'm health since coming here
about year and a half ago.
The following Is table represent
ing an average weeks expense OF this
family:
Monday
Steak, Is cents; onions, 5 cents;
bread 3 cents; oil 80 cents; three
cans of evaoprated cream, 80 cents;
one pound of butter, 35 cents; to-
tai for the day of $l.2O.
Tuesday.
Bacon, 35 cents ham, 40 cents;
cake. 10 cents; soap, Is cents; po-
tatoes, % cents; bread, cents; to-
tai of $l.SO.
Wednesday.
Bread, ; cents one dozen eggs, %
cents; four, 60 cents pair of boys
shoes, IS cents; pair Of boys stock
ings, 20 cents; two pairs of mems
socks. . cents; two cantelOupes
cents; mutton, 20 cents, breakfast
food, IS cents; a total Of $3.50.
Thursday.
Bread. cents; boiling beef, 10
cents: cake, IS cents; onions 10
cents, beets. 10 cents; parsley, .
cents: one pound of coffee, 30 cents;
sugar, % cents; a total of Sl.lO.
Friday.
Bread, cents; steak, Is cents;
wood. 81; canteloupes, cents; salt
10 cents; rice, 25 cents; nutmegs 10
cents: a total of $40.
Saturday.
Shoe polish, 10 cents; bread,
cents; mans laundry, 25 cents; eight
pounds of potatoes, 25 cents; three
pounds Of sweet potatoes, 25 cents;
three cans of evaporated cream, 80
cents: beef roast, 35 cents; mutton,
10 cents; syrup, 25 cents; a total
of $1.65.
sunday.
one fourth share i'm ice cream 30
cents: car fare, 20 cents; church coll
lection. 10 cents; total of go cents.
The total for this week Is $10.10.
Rent is $2.75 a week, making $l2.S5
I'm all.
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