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HOW TO FILL UP THIS BOOKLti
1.This booklet should contain a complete record of everything which you youm.lf payfo~ other members of your
household have separate booklets.
2. Please include worything that you pay for during the fourteen days, whether it is paid for out of your own money,
housekeeping, luncheon vouchers, money from a loan or any other source, and whether payment is by cash, cheque,
postal order, giro cheque, credit card, chargecard or other means of payment.
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3. Write down the actual payments you make’during the fourteen days, even if the goods were obtained previously, or are
going to be delivered later. If you buy anything by part exchange, piease give the amount paid after deducting
the amount allowed in part exchange.
4. Show each item, however-small,
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on a Separate iirm and the amount spent on it. Please do not, for example, write
‘vegetables’ but show separately how much you-spent on potatoes, cabbages, frbzen beans, tinned peas and so on. It iS
not necessary to write Q and p. signs in columns.
5. If you ask someone else to buy things for you, anckyou pay.ior them, details of the purchases should be included in
your own booklet.
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6.Credit card acquisitions. If you acquire any goods or services by credit card “e.g. Access, American Express, Visa,
Diners Club”. Please record a description of the item and its price and write “CREDIT CARD” beside entry. PlOSSe
exclude bankers cheque cards.
7. Credit card ●ccount payments. if you have a credit card i.e. Visa, Access, American Express etc. and you pay ali or part
of the account during these fourteen days of record keeping, please record any interest shown on the account on
page 36.
8. Chargocard ●cquisitions. If you acquire any goods or services on a charge card e.g. Marks and Spencer, Debenhams.
piesse record a description of the item and its price and write “CHARGECARD’ beside entry.
9. Food, soft drinks ●nd aicohotic drinks brought horn.. Please record any food, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks brought
home on the left hand pages. Meais, snacks, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks bought and consumed away from home
should be recorded on right hand pages.
10. Where food, soft drink were purchased. Please record the name of the shop or store where you bought food and soft
drink. If you are unsure of the name, please write a brief description e.g. “Corner shop”.
See exampie on page 4.
11. Daiiy shopping items (other than food). Please enter cigarettes, tobacco, matches, cleaning materials, toiletries,
cosmetics, stationery, newspapers, magazines, books, postage and other daily shopping items (other than food).
Please record the shop or store where you bought these items. If you are unsure of the name, pleaae write a brief
description e.g. “Matches - Corner shop”.
See example on page 5.
12. Hlro Purcheso. If you start buying anything by installments on any of the fourteen days, write down the amount and
state that it is the first installment, down payment, etc.
If during the fourteen days you pay installments on any goods which you are already buying by instaiments, write down
what the article is and how much you pay.
13. Budget Accounts, Clothing Clubs, Mail Order Clubs, ●tc. If you pay anything into a budget acc~unt, clothing club, etc.
during the fourteen days, please write each payment down with a description of the account or ciub into which it is
paid. There is no need to record any goods you obtain from these clubs.
14. Meais, snacks, soft drinks ●nd othor non-alcohoiic drinks bought ●nd consumed ●way from horns. Include any food or
non alcoholic drinks bought and consumed outside the home. Non-alcoholic drinks include tea, coffee, milk, Horlicks
etc. as well as fruit juices and other soft drinks. Even if these are taken on their own please record them here. AlSO
please include breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, cups of tea or coffee if these are bought and consumed away frOm
home. Meals, snacks or drinks bought at a workplace should be recorded separately from other meals. If you bought a
snack please state what it comprised.
See example on page 5
15. Whoro meais ●nd snacks wero consumed. For meals and snacks purchased at places other than at workplace, p19@90
ring code as to whether you eat the food on premises (code 1) or off the premises (code 2). .
See example on page 5.
16. B~r, wino ●nd spirits ●nd other ●lcoholic drinks bought ●nd consumed ●way from home. Please include alcoholic
drinks taken on their own, at pubs, wine bars, ciubs, se well as alcoholic drinks taken with meals. Alcoholic drinks
“taken home should be entered on the left hand page, see ‘beer’ example, page 4.
If you have alcoholic drinks with a meal, please list these separately and indicate that they are taken with a meal, SOS
example, page 5.
Please specifiy the type of alcoholic drink eg beer, wine, sherry, vermouth, port, spirits, cider, perw, etC.
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