 | National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project), Charles J. Gadway - 1973 - 286 pages
...This does not mean that they actually keep formal budgets-quite the contrary. The beauty of budget ism is that one doesn't have to keep a budget at all....installments, the purchasers will smooth out the load themsr'ves by floating loans. It is, suburbanites cheerfully explain, a matter of psychology. They... | |
 | Malin Åkerström - 1985 - 244 pages
...finances—are firmly geared to a thirty-day cycle, and so, increasingly, are all the other items. It is, suburbanites cheerfully explain, a matter of...trust themselves ... In selfentrapment is security. (1956:137) Criminals, on the other hand, hold negative opinions about regularities and restrictions... | |
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Just as young couples are now paying winter oil bills in equal monthly fractions through the year, so they seek to spread out all the other heavy seasonal obligations they can anticipate: Christmas presents, real-estate taxes, birthdays, spring cleaning,... 