Housewife's Time Has Varying Money Value on Different Tasks

1927

National Agricultural Library

Yearbook of Agriculture, p. 386-387

To many a housewife of a generation ago the idea that her time had a money value would have seemed absurd. But the modern home maker takes it quite for granted. In this day of ready-made clothing, baker's bread, and commercial canning and laundering, she is accustomed to deciding whether to spend her time on a household task or to spend the family income on its commercial substitute. Frequently she also weighs the question of paying for hired help in the home. There is plenty of opportunity for her to see that by doing her work herself she is saving money for the family.