> That's how I learned, too..  :)  And mostly how we taught our kid...
 > Laundry was a "today you will learn how", but there was a specific
 > reason why for that one (and he was pretty young, too)... ;)  And smart
 > grocery shopping didn't stick until we left him off on his own for
 > college...   That last shopping trip we did for him, he suddenly was
 > interested in the details...   And after buying his own for a month
 > or so, he understood a lot more about some of the nuances...  ;)  "Mom,
 > I just figured out something... I can get 2 weeks of regular food for
 > about the same price of 2 days worth of junk food and snacks... and
 > since all I have for the next 2 weeks is that amount, guess which one I
 > decided to buy!"    He finally understood why some of
the stuff /he'd/
 > put in the cart at home got put back on the shelf by his mom... ;)

I know that one real well!  Mom is a frugal sort but not 'chinchy'.  She
raised me with 'best bang for the buck' and that sometimes you pay more for a
good reason of quality.

Charlotte learned grocery shopping skills from age 7 on.  She could feed
herself a nutritionally sound diet on just a little over 100$ a month with
today's market.  Add 50 and she's got 'snackies'.  I probably should work on
the laundry angle though.  Grin, Don does that and I'm not sure what color
our washing machine and dryer are.  I think I used the dryer once, about 10
years ago....

Meantime, I just had fun!  Took Cash-pup for a walk and a few bucks since
it's yardsale season.  Yup, found a lady selling off clothes and got me 2
silky shirts, 2 sweaters, and a nice lined jacket.  The jacket and the 2
shirts still had the sales tags on them.  One of the sweaters still has the
dry cleaning tags.  Also found a cute hot pink neck muffler Charlotte wanted
and a jeans Jacket (short sleeve) that's cute on her.  Oh, and a perfume
bottle that's mostly full and smells alot like Este Lauder's.  She wanted 6$
but i gave her 10.

Sounded right!  Nice stuff for work.
            xxcarol
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