i 14—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 10,1977
Delaware girl
DOVER, Del. - She’s not
vhat you’d call an average
consumer, being only 1$
rears old and a high school
wphomore, and living in
Seaford with her parents and
sisters, Karen Taylor is not
responsible for any major
family purchasing decisions.
But ask her anything about
making major, or, for that
matter, minor, purchases
and she’ll tell more than
most adult consumers will
ever know about getting the
most for their money.
This underage, above
average consumer has been
ousy comparing prices on
groceries, fabrics, canning
As part of her 4-H consumer education project,
Karen Taylor checked quality as well as prices on
grocery items from different stores in her town.
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supplies and crafts, to name
a few items, for the past two
years in the interest of her
Seaford Blue Jays 4-H Club.
Her diligence won her the
State 4-H award in consumer
education this year.
A 4-H member for more
than six years, Karen
recently was further
recognized for her project
work in the area of consumer
education at the 56th
National 4-H Congress held
the week of November 28 in
Chicago. She was named one
of the six national winners in
the 4-H Consumer Education
Program and awarded a
$lOOO college scholarship
In consumer education
wins national 4-H scholarship
from the program sponsor
Montgomery Ward & Co.
“I started out last year by
comparing prices on the
same items in different
grocery stores in town once a
month,” says Karen. “Then
the next year, I compared
national brands with store
brands on common food
items such as coffee, sugar,
' flour and meat I found that
a family of five can save up
to $3O a month by buying
store brands.”
By combining several of
her 4-H projects with con
sumerism, Karen was able
to compile quite an im
pressive list of consumer
related information.
Last year, she conducted a
food preservation project by
canning her own vegetables.
While she was at it, however,
she comparison shopped for
the items necessary for her
project-jars, lids, vinegar,
spices and fresh vegetables
(which she didn’t buy
because she used her
family’s garden produce).
As a further price com
parison, Karen, determined
the amount of money she
saved by preserving her own
produce instead of buying
canned vegetables.
This year Karen made a
four-piece suit as a 4-H
clothing project. But rather
than turning in just the one
project, she itemized the
fabrics and sewing notions
such as zippers, thread and
buttons-comparison shopp
ed for them and recorded her
findings. When she was
finished she located a
similarly made outfit in a
local clothing store and
determined that she had
saved at least $25 by making
it herself.
“My mother is really the
one who got me interested in
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saving money,” says Karen,
“A few years ago, my father
was sick and couldn’t work
for a whole year.My mother
taught me how to stretch our
money then.”
In addition to learning how
to “shop the sales,” for
groceries and clothing,
Karen learned from her
mother that prices on baking
items such as sugar go up
during the holiday season
and that it’s best to buy them
ahead of time. Her mother
also showed her how to alter
sewing patterns, so that the
same one could be used for
several different styles, and
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that even the smallest bit of
leftover material could
serve a useful purpose.
For another of her com
bination projects, Karen
made soft pretzels at a state
food . demonstration and
compared costs between
malting and " buying this
popular snack. She showed
consumers that they could
make 18 pretzels for 73 cents,
a savings of $4.67 compared
to prices at a food booth.
Karen had heard so much
about the Great Depression
that she decided it would
make a good consumer
project to compare the 1930’s
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with the 1970’5. The Sussex
county 4-lfer interviewed
two persons who were young
married women then-one
from an urban and one from
a rural area-and two women
in the same living situations
today. She wrote a speech
about her findings and gave
it to several county and
community organizations.
“I found that in the 1930’5,'
the country people bad most
of their own resources and
were not hit as hard by the
Depression as the city
people,” she says. “But in
the 1970’5, the country people
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