IS YOUR HOME BEAUTIFUL?

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 19 November 1927, Page 11

IS YOUR HOME BEAUTIFUL?

Thrift Means “Wise Spending”

Not Just Saving Money

Make your life now as comfortable as possible.—Look at your home with opened eyes.—Even if your purse is slender, take it> to town and expend a little on making your home a more pleasant place of abode.— Do not endure ugly surroundings.—The newest and most sensible definition of tnrift is wise spending.

yiVERYONE has a different method of spending his or her money; some spend it all upon clothes, others in pleasure, some in betting, and some on their homes. Of course some people are too “house-proud,” and their houses are rather like museums, interesting, but not homes. Yet other people start their married life with everything new—the years pass, the kiddies grow up, and articles once smart and pretty have become oldfashioned and shabby. You have grown used to them and do not notice the dullness, perhaps, but the young folk bring their friends in, and they want to be proud of their home. It doesn’t necessarily mean the outlay of a big sum of money—a drab room, if the furniture is good, can soon be brightened with a few gay cushions, big soft happy ones that like being punched, and are no relation to the ornate, “best,” over-done affairs that are propped up stiffly in some drawing-rooms. Be firm, and banish some of the wedding-present ornaments which you have endured in the name of friendship or blood-relationship for many years. They are out-of-date and ugly, and are therefore neither use nor ornament.

Gay curtains will help to brighten your home, and if your carpet is still quite “good,” but not in the first bloom of youth and beauty, humour it by a consideration of the most suitable wall paper. Thriftiness has a new definition. Once it meant saving money, but the newest and most sensible meaning is wise spending. The habit of wise spending admits there is a present as well as a future, and that it is just as foolish to stint that present for the sake of a shadowy future, as it is to spend lavishly with no thought of the morrow. Remember, you might as well make your life now as comfortable as possible, as a hoard of money will not smooth the way Over the the Divide.

One of the favourite methods of economising is to spend no money on home comforts. There are people who will tolerate uncomfortable chairs, a bad light, and ugly surroundings for a life-time, because they have got used to it; they have settled in to the view that, because their purse is small, an unattractive home is to be endured.

The same people buy many yards of material because it is going cheaply at a bargain sale in the hope that “it may come in useful for something some time”; they will buy groceries in small quantities, forgetting that they are thus more expensive, and they will keep their money in a bank at 4 per cent, when secure investments are asking to be taken up which would yield them six. Quite a lot of pinching and scraping is permissable if it has for its object the purchase of a comfortable Chesterfield and easy chairs to take the place of the ugly, nub by hard old-fashioned seats that are still to be found in some houses where guests are few. Look at your home with opened eyes—think a little more of the present, of the gaiety of new coverings, the cheeriness of new colour, the attractiveness of new lampshades and the charm of gleeful cretonne flowering where plush once golwered. Having thought well, take your slender purse to town and spend just a little of its contents on making the home a spot where the present may be enjoyed.

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