Your Thrift Habits (1948)

Irresponsible "Jack" is envious of the camera that sensible "Ralph" has just purchased. How can Jack possibly save the money he needs to buy one for himself? "Are budgets just for parents?" the narrator asks, mockingly. "If he'd do without extravagances he could save every week!" Jack concedes that he should learn to budget his income, so he devises a "cameragraph" and attempts to follow it. This isn't always easy, but the narrator is always on hand to humiliate Jack whenever greed and gluttony surface. "Too many movies! Too much candy!" he chides. "You can't have EVERYTHING you want!" Needless to say, Jack does finally save enough money to buy his camera -- and probably had a good laugh at this film once the unthrifty fifties got rolling.

Producer: Coronet Instructional Films

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• MONEY
• THRIFT
• SAVING
• EXTRAVAGANCES
• BUDGETS
• BUYING
• PURCHASING
• CAMERAS
• GRAPHS
• TEMPTATION
• HIGH
• SCHOOL
• STUDENTS
• CHARTS

[manhoot]

Thrift is an ageless quality.

[kruserer]

Aside from the ridiculous dollar amounts and patronizing, this is actually good dvise.

[leonheart403]

$18.00 on food a week?! FOR A FAMILY?! I spend about $70 a week on groceries and I'm single..... and on a budget. Geez!

[NightElectric]

Wow, look at the size of that soda! O.o 1:17

[rosrychaplet]

@rosrychaplet yes

[rosrychaplet]

@aradiapaganus marshall's does 30 day lay-aways

[electrogeek77]

@nicoleskii Prices sure were lower, but people's incomes were lower, too.

[electrogeek77]

Jack looks strangely like my husband at that age.

....

OH GOD, I MARRIED A WEINER KID.

[aradiapaganus]

My goodness I wish it were this easy now. Today most expenses require us to use credit... many places don't even offer 'lay-away' for example. I am one of many college students living with a negative cash flow. Rent, insurance, and utilities take up all of my income from work. So saving for say, food, is impossible (without EBT program I would starve)-- let alone text books or tuition-- and forget crazy luxuries like medicine. Ahhhh... the 1940's and 50's.

[rosrychaplet]

Does mst3k have a version of this?