![]() It makes it easier to take them from the drawer that way and put them in my purse when I go to check each Saturday on whether or not the numbers posted on the bakery wall correspond to any on my tickets for the weekly toaster, the waffle iron, the blender, the frying pan, or the teakettle that I can have absolutely free. I keep a rubber band around the small cardboard tickets that I get with every purchase at the bakery. These two books nestle next to the thick Family Discount Dividend folder, which has brown stamps worth one tenth of a mill each (that’s what it says on the cover) and will get us a lawn ornament or a Scrabble game from our fishman. After I paste thirty of these on each of forty pages, I can have the picnic basket we are saving for. And there are the green Coöperative Discount stamps from the dairy. ![]() There’s the book in which to put the yellow Gold Bond Dividend stamps: when full, it will entitle me to $2.50 worth of anything in the whole supermarket. Our divided drawers here are stuffed with different kinds of coupons redeemable for valuable premiums, several types of merchandise certificates that save you money, books of different-colored stamps for valuable gifts at different markets, and so on. I have wondered many times lately what I’d be doing if we were still in our other house, where the kitchen didn’t have divided drawers. If my husband hadn’t come along just then and announced that he had decided to have our old set sent down to the office, I don’t know how I’d have handled it. But they got into a wrangle over whose choice it would be to select the very first program they were going to watch on the old set, which they took it for granted would be given them to put upstairs when we had to make room for the solid mahogany hand-carved color TV set in the living room. Since the children allend the movies every Saturday anyway, and since you have to be present to win, I said each could take a ticket. The lucky number will be drawn on the stage of the theatre next Saturday, thanks to the combined generosity of the theatre, Sam’s Clothing Store, Eddie’s Flower Shop, and Salvatore’s Pizza Palace. Each ticket entitles the holder to a chance to win a 21-inch color television set in a solid mahogany, hand-carved cabinet. Yesterday, for instance, I came across the tickets my husband and I got a couple of weeks ago when we attended the movies. Hardly a day goes by here that the children do not need guidance. ![]() But I do say manufacturers are going to create ill will if they don’t hurry and devise some method of helping the consumer’s children adjust to the newer way. It’s all right for any girl who feels her brains need exercise. I have no quarrel with that kind of stuff either. Only the other day, I saw an ad for a box-top-andstatement contest offering a cabin cruiser and a small private ocean to sail it on as a first prize, and describing how easy it is to win. Not that that kind of thing isn’t going on still. In the old days, if you wanted a Dodge Coronet Lancer V-8 for nothing, you had to go to the bother of sending in box tops and writing twenty-five words or less that were judged for sincerity, aptness, originality, clearness, neatness, and heaven knows what all. Who is going to be piker enough to care about saving a measly $2.95 when she can get a Dodge Lancer V-8 for nothing? I think it’s ridiculous of the soap people not to realize this too. But this was an anticlimax compared with the news about the Dodge Lancer V-8, of course. that said I’d find enclosed in the envelope an order blank for nylon stockings on which I could save us much as $2.95 if I wished three pairs. This means your name may be picked as one of the winners of the new Dodge Lancer V-8’s.” They said, “Your name is now automatically entered without further action on your part in the HOORAY LIQUID drawing. And keeping HOORAY handy like that will be a terrific help in licking that daily dishwashing job of yours.” Also a handy wall can-holder for you that exactly fits a can of HOORAY LIQUID which you just can’t beat for washing dishes. The letter started out by saying, “Here is the 10¢ HOORAY LIQUID coupon which, in answer to our ad, you asked Noted Television Personality to send you. It was from a soap company, and the soap companies, I have found, usually break things to you pretty gently. ![]() Not that it got exciting right off the bat though. That’s what the letter I left around had in it: exciting news. But he is older and he can take exciting news in stride. The children’s father would come under the heading of “others,” of course. Especially if the others include her children and they have a tendency to be made sleepless by good news. I GUESS it’s a mistake for a woman to leave her mail around where others can see it. ![]()
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