1940

I found a notebook in my stuff. it was 1940 and my list of money keeping. I started out with .15 cents I borrowed some money from my mother=$7.09. I paid 19 cents for buttons. I went to a movie for 16 cents. I bought some peanuts for 37 cents. I was working for my Dasd in the office and was paid $6.00 a week. I went to the Topeka Free fair and spent $1.26. I bought a notebook for sewing for ten cents. I gave the church 40 cents. I paid aregistration fee of $2.00, I spilled a coker and had to pay 49 cents to have it cleaned, I had joined a sority so had to pay $5.00. I bought some notebook paper for ten cents. The list of things goes on. I even put in what movies I went to. I went to a lot of Deanna Durbin shows.
and seem to eat a lot of peanuts.I was also buying war bonds. I shall -probably come back to thias as I discover more things in the book but I will let it rest now. Budgets were a necessity when you are a Freshman in college