Excerpt from Family Expense Account: Including Problems of Investment and Expenditure This book contains the family expense accounts of Mr. And Mrs. Frank Woodward, who were married in Berkeley, California, in November, 1900, and started housekeeping on December first. Mr. Woodward was earning $75 a month as a bookkeeper in a hardware store in San Francisco. At the time of their marriage, the family bought the furniture for a four-room flat, but had no cash in reserve. They decided to devote their savings to the purchase of their own home, but at the same time to spend a reasonable amount upon books, vacations, concerts, etc., and to give steady support to church and charity. The financial story of fourteen years of their married life is told in the following pages. The problems concerning the investment and expenditure of their salary are those commonly met at the present time. Pupils should study the book, not only to gain Skill in handling money, but also to gain self-control while solving similar problems which may occur in their own home life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.