The household manager should learn to think in percentages. One cent less on a ten cent article seems a trivial saving, yet it is ten per cent-ten dollars in every hundred. It is fair to state that there will be a difference in money paid of from ten to twenty per cent between careless and careful purchases.

It should be remembered that the customer who knows and is particular receives the best of goods and services.

The successful business man is an expert in judging the materials in which he deals; he is perfectly familiar with the range of prices and quick to take advantage of all favorable conditions. The household manager needs to be just as familiar with all the goods which relate to the home and with their prices.

One becomes an expert only through experience, but experience is not gained simply by ordering goods; appearance must be noted carefully and results compared intelligently to acquire the trained eye and the trained judgment necessary to the successful household manager.