Finance on Fridays

{picture via the Sartorialist}

*Taken from Sex and the single girl by Helen Gurley Brown, 1962 (vintage financial advice ^^)
The guiding principles are:

1. Scrimp on what isn't sexy or beautiful or really any fun, so you can afford what is.


2. Don't spend a sou on anything you don't need. (You need iridescent gold eye shadow, but what about that essence-of-pine air purifier somebody was selling you)


3. Never pay more when you can pay less. Shelf paper is shelf paper whether you buy it in a department store or a supermarket, and in the supermarket it costs less. (puzzled expression, what is shelf-paper?)


4. Economise on things that would bring you no extra happiness even if you spent twice as much. Are your guests really going to love you more and enjoy themselves double when you spend prawns with cocktails instead of raw carrots and cauliflower with a good cheese dip?

These are the general Save Rules. Now for specifics.

Living

• Don't subscribe to newspapers or magazines. Read your friend's, steal one from your colleague.
• Turn off the light when you leave a room.
• Don't phone your folks too often - write letters (ok..this is now the 21st century so Email!)
• Give up smoking.
• Musicals sounds good all over the theatre. Move out of the gallery only when a date takes you.
• Brush your teeth with baking soda; there is no finer dentrifice.
• Men are to buy you cocktails. That's no way for you to spend your money.
• Don't undertip. This little economy is unworthy of you.
• Work for a rich man.
• Negotiate with everybody.

Next week on Personal finance Borrowing and Lending :)