Some tips that are truly ageless:
- "An ounce of originality is worth a pound of swank."
- "...it is so easy to be extravagant and buy recklessly when one can say, 'Charge it.'" (September 1890)
- Children "should learn to appreciate the fact that the greatest happiness does not always come with the greatest wealth. Give them a suitable allowance when they have reached what may be called years of discretion." (September 1899)
- "It is oftener the trifling outlays frequently repeated that prove ruinous than any conspicuous extravagance." (January 1900)
- Having a small garden can be profitable: vegetables and fruit can be produced from 1/2 to 2/3 the cost of buying them. (May 1903)
- "Shoes soon lose their shape and appearance of newness. If two or three pairs are worn interchangeably, all look fresher, as well as wear longer." (March 1908)
- Buy furniture "just as it comes from the factory — unsanded, unpainted, and unstained" — to save money. (The chairs featured in the article cost 65 cents each!) (February 1909)
- "Stocks, even good stocks, are speculative; they always have been and the always will be." (November 1929)