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Spilyay T y moo April 13, 1984 Page 9 Find the best buy It often takes time and sure to check prices before you many other items may be energy to find the best buy. The decide to make it. Sometimes a available to you. Are you using best buy for you is the item that factory can turn out an item for the free things available to you? Trade—Do you have things will serve your needs best at the less money than we would need lowest possible price. Finding to pay for the supplies to make in your home that you no lo n g e r n e e d o r w a n t? the best buy may mean looking it. Rent or hire—When you Sometimes these things have in several places—a catalogue, newspapers and two or three need somthing for only a short v a lu e to o th e r p e o p le . different stores. Sometimes time, it could be cheaper to rent Sometimes you can trade them secondhand stores offer the it. What kinds of things can you for things you need. Sometimes best buy. If you know exactly rent in your community? Count these things have value to other what you need or want, it will su ch th in g s as c o in -o p people. Sometimes you can sell be easier to find the best buy for laundries. Sometimes we rent them to others who can make things when the cost of use of them. What items could you. Make it—sometimes you can equipment is too high for our you trade to others? What skills do you have that you could trad get something for less money budget. Find it free—The goods and do you have that you could by making it. This means, you supply some your know-how, services we can get for free trade others? What skills do labor and time. The cost of the really help to stretch our you have that you could trade materials should be cheaper money. Parks, playgrounds, with a neighbor or friend for than the finished product. Be community health services and something they may have that you do not? OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION Clay Penhollow Mollie Driscoll Spend less, enjoy it more Learning how to spend less can almost be a full-time job. It takes skill and practice to find the best ways to stretch your family dollar. Here are ten not possible, an automatic ideas to help you think of ways transfer from your checking to to cut your spending. Don’t buy it—Apply this your savings account will help idea first. Ask yourself if you you save regularly. 9. If you are lucky enough to really need this item. If it’s a receive a pay raise, consider “want” item, ask yourself if putting a portion of this raise there is anything else you want more. Give yourself time to into a savings account. 10. After establishing a plan think about it. There are very for spending and savings, you few items to buy that won’t wait need to work to carry out thè a day or two. A “last chance” plan. If you are not, or if you isn’t often the last chance, if have unplanned expenditures, you have a very hard time not buying, stay out of stores. make adjustments. 11. You will need to keep When you do go, take only the track of expenditures to see money you must have for your that you are within the plan. If real needs. B orrow —Som etim es you you are not, or if you have unplanned expenditures, make can borrow an item you need* especially if it’s something you adjustments. 12. If you are spending more d o n ’t need v ery o fte n . than you have, you have to Borrowed things need to be either increase or decrease your returned in good condition. What things do you have that expenditures. you are willing to loan? Remember the library, the Extension Service and other public services when it comes to Making money count 1. Developing a spending saving plan requires knowledge o f y o u r in c o m e a f t e r deductions as well as your expenses. 2. If your income is irregular, you should estimate the highest and the lowest your income might be. Develop spending plans for the high income and for the low. Look at your record o f ex p enses and determine how much you need to allocate each week or month for each expense. 3. Some expenses do not happen every month. Those are the ones you are most likely not to plan for and the ones most likely to interfere with your plan. 4. Think about expenses that only occur once or twice a year. They may be automobile insurance or property taxes. They may be holidays or sp e c ia l e v e n ts su ch as birthdays. Or they may be seasonal things such as skiing or hunting. 5. Write down all these expenses. How much does each cost? As you plan your monthly expenditures, set aside some money to meet these special expenses. 6. Plan for saving just as you plan for spending. The family who regularly saves small amounts is more apt to save than the family who waits for “extra money.” 7. If a payroll deduction for savings is possible, this will help you save regularly. 8. If a payroll deduction is borrowing. Share—Often we can stretch our money by learning to share items with our family and f r ie n d s . N e ig h b o rs can sometimes share the price of a bushel of apples and save money. We share recipes, ideas and sometimes our skills with others. Sharing usually means that everyone benefits as a result of getting together on an idea or project. Substitute—When you go to buy something, ask yourself if something at a lower price could do the job almost as well. Many products have very good s u b s titu te s , and som etim es you find the substitute was better than the original. Use Wisely—One way of stretching money is to find ways to make the things we buy last longer. Almost every product we buy needs some kind of care. See if you can find ways to make the items you buy wear longer, last longer or keep from spoiling before you use them up. Treat the things you buy as you treat your money. Lay your hands on your feet H | y / \ I Rub them, twist them, pat, pamper them. We’ve desired dozens of stretching and strengthening exercises for everything from the Achilles tendon to the neck, but no one has said very much about treating your feet with loving kindness. They’ll help keep you free of injuries, and they will definitely help you feel more relaxed and rejuvenated after your workouts. A c c o r d in g to s p o r ts podiatrist John Pagliano, the worst thing you can do after training run is heave a sigh of relief and fold yourself into an easy chair. You may think that’s what our body wants you to do, but look at it the way Pagliano sees it: “You’ve just finished your run, which means your heart has been pumping a tremendous amount of blood to your feet and legs. Then you sit down and bend your body at right angles at the waist and knees. That’s going to cut off the flow of blood back from your feet.” Instead of sitting, Pagliano recommends lying on your back w ith legs elevated to promote blood flow back to your heart. He also advises a number of foot exercises: curling your toes, rotating your ankles five times in each direction and attempting to form a fist with your foot. Use your hands to knead and massage your feet, loosening them up after a long day. Pagliano also recommends soaking the feet or the entire body in a warm tub after a w o rk o u t. A n y th in g th a t encourages muscle relaxation th r o u g h w a rm th , g e n tle m a n ip u la tio n a n d lig h t stretching will promote better foot and leg health. Listen to your body SpUyay ty m o o p hoto by Shigwcxyk Rolling out dough during Extension Service sponsored fancy Easter bread workshop Ron Palmer makes crescent rolls. Medicine you take may be a high source of sodium The medicine you take may Aspirin contains about 935 also be a surprisingly high milligrams of sodium per dose; source of sodium-especially Vicks Form ula 44 Cough some over-the-counter drugs Syrup contains 105 milligrams that are taken frequently over and Rolaids, 70 milligrams. ex ten d ed p erio d s. T hose Some OTC drugs list sodium include certain pain killers, content on their labels. For antacids, cold medicines, other drugs, your pharmacist laxatives, or sedatives. For .or physician should be able to exam ple, A lkaseltzer with give you the sodium content.. As a learned scholar once proclaimed, “This stuff can’t go on indefinitely.” Y our body will likely agree with that assessment if you ask how long it will be able to maintain a heavy schedule of racing and training. Your body has to rest from time to time to regenerate itself. Most of us can maintain a “peak” for about six to eight weeks and once that peak is over, you can bet our bodies will let us know. Some of the warning signs of overwork include a susceptibility to colds, irritability and a lack of desire to run. You should be chomping at the bit when your workout time nears, but if you dread , the thought of lacing on your running shoes, chances are you need a break. Your body will let you know when it’s injured, too. The slightest little pain is probably a warning of some kind, so be sure to heed that warning. If you have a hard workout planned for today, but your hamstring is troubling you or y o u ’re s till tig h t fro m Saturday’s race, run easily until you feel 100 percent again. The same rule holds true for racing, too. If you notice a pain you haven’t felt before and it doesn’t feel like you’ll be able to “run through it,” back off and save yourself for another race. Unless it’s the Olympic trials, one race isn’t worth the suffering an injury is likely to produce. Two classes scheduled The Warm Springs Exten sion Service has scheduled two classes for April and May. Offered will be Microwave, April 28 at the 4-H center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A fee of $5 will be charged. Also offered will be two session layette sewing workshop on May 15 and 22 at the 4-H center from 7-9:30 p.m. For more information on the c' •’«es offered call 553-1161, ext. .38 or 239 and ask for Mollie Driscoll or Joni David.
