Let Your Budget Be Your 
Guide 
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25ce. to 30c. the quart. So then, the 
first item in their budget was 
275 gallons gas at 27c., $74.25 
BY quarts oll iat 25c., 9.75 
Eighty-four dollars for gas and oil 
for a 5,500-mile trip. 
They next allowed $25 for tire and 
tube repair—the amount to cover the 
upkeep of five tires. Tires being the 
one unpredictable factor in any motor 
undertaking, they counted quite re- 
signedly on picking up a_ general 
assortment of tacks, horseshoe nails, 
bits of broken bottle and safety pins. 
They actually did make the trip on one 
set of tires, though when they reached 
San Francisco they were literally run- 
ning on the fabric that underlies the 
rubber tread. And they spent exactly 
$23.70 for patching and vulcanizing 
jobs en route. 
For “car repairs” they allowed $10, 
which seemed sufficient since the car 
they drove was new and in excellent 
condition, and they were both good 
mechanics. Actually they spent $11.05 
under this heading, which included 
Engine repairs (carburetor ad- 
RUS ETDOR UIE CLES Po Lockie Webs wg. $1.75 
Soldering hole in gas tank...... 1.50 
Installation new brake connect- 
REMI MET ete ca. snkel swiss a0 5 1.50 
New headlight bulb....... ati 5. > se 
The remainder of the money was spent 
on numerous small jobs, such as tight- 
ening up rattling connections and re- 
placing nuts, bolts and washers which 
on rough roads drop from the best of 
cars like feathers from a moulting 
bird. 
Under the heading ‘‘Miscellaneous— 
Car,” they allowed $16. This was for 
such items as light oil for flushing out 
the crank-case, distilled water, greases, 
polish, cheesecloth and an extra jack 
they had to buy. So much, then, for 
car expenses. They next had their 
personal expenses to compute. 
They planned to take fifty days— 
roughly six weeks—for the trip, which 
included all premeditated stopovers in 
cities and National Parks. Allowing 
$2.50 a day for food for two people 
brought their meal budget for 50 days 
to $125. In figuring the cost of food, 
they counted on camping out in the 
parks and cooking all lunches along 
the wayside. Even with these econo- 
mies they actually spent $119.14 for 
food for the 45 days they were on the 
road. Their food average was $2.44 
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daily for two people, just 6 cents a day 
less than they had planned to spend. 
They had allowed for spending 
thirty nights in hotels, at $4 a night 
for two—$120 for hotel bills. When 
their final totals were made they found 
they had spent 26 nights in hotels at 
a total of $79.80. After leaving Chi- 
cago, double rooms could be had for 
$1.25 to $2, and rarely the price went 
up to $4. So, according to their 
records, the average cost of putting 
up at a hotel was $3.06 a night for two 
(not including meals). They carried 
camping equipment, but the West does 
not really begin until Minneapolis is 
far behind and they did not count on 
camping out before then. Their first 
night of camping was in the public 
auto camp of Pierre, S.D. Twice they 
slept on the open prairie, once in the 
woods of British Columbia, and they 
camped for five days in both Yellow- 
stone and Glacier. The number of 
nights they had allowed for hotels was 
just enough to take them through the 
cities. 
Counting 80 nights in hotels, they 
figured that the car would have to be 
put in garages about 20 nights at a 
dollar a night. Actually, they had to 
put up the car 18 nights at a total 
cost of $12 (average 66c. a night). 
The remainder of the time they were 
able to park in front of the hotel over- 
night. 
To cover National Park fees, toll 
bridges and ferries, they allowed $25, 
which was exactly twice the amount 
really spent. At the end of the trip, 
their account book showed record of 
a half-dozen fees—Yellowstone, $7.50; 
Glacier, $2.50; interstate bridge, 20c., 
and river ferries, $2. 
The girls believed that no budget 
could be applied to humans unless it 
had an amusement fund, so under this 
heading they allowed $25. Practically 
the entire amount was spent up in 
Glacier Park, where they took saddle- 
trips into the heart of the Rockies and 
hired rowboats for fishing on Two 
Medicine and St. Mary’s Lakes. In 
Yellowstone they found that there was 
no need to spend money to see the 
Park—that the wonder spots were all 
within automobile reach of the tourist. 
But up in Glacier, it is necessary to 
climb amongst the snowy peaks on 
horseback to get the full feeling for 
the magnificence of that Park, for the 
auto road takes one along the base of 
only the first row of jagged mountains, 
beyond which lie unguessed chains of 
tumbling peaks and frosty glaciers. 
Finally, they allowed $35 for a “mis- 
cellaneous—personal” fund. They ex- 
plained to questioning friends, before 
they started, that they had no idea to 
what use this money would be put, but 
that the best budgets always had a 

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