How to live well on five shillings a week per head / by L. Rutherfoord Skey.

  • Skey, L. Rutherfoord.
Date:
1910
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Credit: How to live well on five shillings a week per head / by L. Rutherfoord Skey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VIII How to Spend the Five Shillings— Tables of Daily Expenditure Before we close this little endeavour to prove life livable on five shillings a week, it may be well to give our readers some further hints as to how the five shillings should be spent. Experience, we have often been told, is a good school; but the fees are heavy, and having discovered this to our cost, we can do no less than strive to assist others to avoid the mistakes we have made ourselves. As we observed in the introduction, the cost of meals given in the text of our book, and in the tables of daily expenditure at the end of this chapter, have been very carefully worked out, and our estimates are in all cases a little high rather than a little low. We have not, of course, based our calculations on prices ruling in what are called “ high-class ”—or in other, and less enigmatic, words, expensive—shops ; but we have given shop prices. Vegetables as fresh as, or fresher than, those usually bought in shops can, it need hardly be said, be pur- chased at lower prices in ordinary markets; and