A Week in the Life of a 1963 American Family Budget — Monday to Sunday

Subscribe to the channel:    / @forgottenmoneyamerica   👉 Forgotten Money Secrets That Build Wealth Ebook: https://forgottenmoneyamerica.netlify... In 1963 the typical American family earned about $119 a week before taxes, and the government's own bare-bones food plan for a family of four came to roughly $20. A homemaker I'll call Dorothy ran a whole house on numbers like those, without a credit card in her purse — and the habit that did the most work wasn't the grocery list or the envelopes. It was fifteen quiet minutes every Sunday night at the kitchen table, with a pencil and the coins from her change purse. Here's her whole week, one money job at a time, and why it still works today. Sources: https://aspe.hhs.gov/history-poverty-... https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/... https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/20...