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[ERayR]

I am looking for a Brigham Young quote about selecting a woman that would take care of what you earned.  The quote, as I remember, was that some women could haul more out the back door with a teaspoon than their husband could haul in the front door with a wagon.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Ray

[Leelee]

ERayR, on 19 January 2011 - 09:27 PM, said:

I am looking for a Brigham Young quote about selecting a woman that would take care of what you earned.  The quote, as I remember, was that some women could haul more out the back door with a teaspoon than their husband could haul in the front door with a wagon.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Ray

I found this:

A woe is pronounced against wasting. (Doc. and Cov., 49:21.) Poverty, through wastefulness, as asserted in the previous lesson, is sinful. Wastefulness is not only unwise, it reaches over into the borderland of wickedness. We have less use in these days than formerly for the saying that a woman can throw out of the back door with a spoon faster than a man can bring in at the front door with a shovel.

A Study for the Advanced Senior Classes of the M. I. A. 1920-21. Published in the Improvement Era, 1920

Hope this helps.

[ERayR]

Leelee, on 25 January 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

I found this:

A woe is pronounced against wasting. (Doc. and Cov., 49:21.) Poverty, through wastefulness, as asserted in the previous lesson, is sinful. Wastefulness is not only unwise, it reaches over into the borderland of wickedness. We have less use in these days than formerly for the saying that a woman can throw out of the back door with a spoon faster than a man can bring in at the front door with a shovel.

A Study for the Advanced Senior Classes of the M. I. A. 1920-21. Published in the Improvement Era, 1920

Hope this helps.

Thanks.  I have a talk to give this next Sunday.  It is on money management.

[Leelee]

Good luck on your talk.