The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-22
Work or Allowance, Each
Has Its Points in Home
Training.

Mothers and dads! What are your
children?
Sure, they may be Johnnies or
Marys, imps or angels, but what
are they from the juvenile finance
standpoint?
Are they "Girnmes," Work For
It's 'BudgeteerS," or Coin
Counters?
A Gimme" is a boy or girl who
receives money from his parents
for pencils and candy upon utter
ing the one word, Gimme" The
"Gimmes" are given money willy
nilly without regard to allowance.
The "Work-For- ItS'' are children
who shove the carpet sweeper, carry
out the ashes, and NOW the lawn
for their spending money.
No More, No Less
The "Budgeteers" receive a week
ly allotment of coin of the realm
no more, no less.
While the Coin Counters, n.y.
brid "Budgeteers," are taught the
value of money with allowances of
odd nickles thrown in now and then
for odd jobs about the home.
Four city mothers, members of
the Parent Teachers Association of
Indianapolis, we're found who rep
resented the four systems of
boosting the sales of all-day suck
ers and school tablets
Mrs. r. H. Stone, 2614 Broadway,
defends the Gimme" scheme as
best for her Mary, 8, and Ray
mond, 6.
No Allowance Plan
When they want anything they
just say, Mon give me a nickle for
a pencil OF course, they have
banks and are given pennies to put
in, but the pennies are not based
on a regular allowance plan" Mrs.
Stone said.
The lance of the "Budgeteers" is
taken up by Mrs. G. E. Sunthimer,
2344 College avenue, for her Mary
Ethel, 10; Charlene, 8, and Max
inc, 7.
Each of my daughters is bud
geted for the week.
For instance" she continued,
Mary Ethel receives $205 a week;
Charlene, 81 cents; Maxine, 81
cents. Why the odd cents? Well!
take Charlene's weekly budget. She
receives so cents to pay her piano
lesson, 9 cents for her magazine, 2
cents to put in the Sunday school
plate"
Use Register Banks
Cash register banks are used for
savings by the Sunthimer children.
The Work For-Its'' have a
champion in Mrs. o. H. GRIPPE, 5402
East Washington street, and her
children, Richard, 10; Allen, II;
Norman, 10, and John, 8.
my boys are paid for tasks about
the home. Say John and Norman
carry out the ashes; well, then they
are each paid 10 cents for the Job.
Lawn moving, going to grocery,
helping about the house, are other
jobs for which they are paid.
Then Richard carries papers,
and the other boys magazines. AS
soon as one of my sons is old
enough, he is taught to work.
believe it's a splendid way to teach
them the value Of money" she
says.
Last, but Not Least
And last, but, as usual, not the
least Of these ways of teaching the
value of the depression dollar, are
the coin counters" as typifed by
Mrs. Matt Carpenter, 1853 North
Holmes street.
Mrs. Carpenter believes in teach
ing her two sons, Robert, 8, and
Thomas, 6, the. exact monetary
purchasing power of pennies,
nickels, dimes and quarters.
So she ailots Tommy" always
five pennies, a nickel and one dime,
while Robert learns the higher
money values as he receives one
half dollar and one quarter for his
music lesson in addition to an al
ioWance like 'Tommy's."
My boys have pocketbooks to
keep their money in. And as bad
as I need their change sometimes
for the grocer or the milkman,
never open the pocketbooks unless
I ask them for permission to get the
change. and then they get the
change for me-