Getting Your Dollar’s Worth.

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Designed as a secondary level consumer education text dealing with how to use your money wisely, this booklet makes use of stories, skits, and cartoon drawings to dramatize the everyday life of a consumer. It tells how to buy cars, how to use credit (charge accounts, credit cards, lifE insurance, credit unions, passbook savings, commercial banks, and finance companies) and deals with such topics as consumer protection services, law and the buyer, warranties and guarantees, fraud, advertising, how to save, and how to determine bargains and receive guarantees. Each of the 15 chapters is followed by questions designed to stimulate lively classroom discussion, and a list of projects for separate groups or the class as a whole is appended. Chapter titles are Buying a Car, Charge It!, Th.’ Smiths and the Johnsons, “But the Ad Said ‘fl “T Know It’s the Best Brand Because It’s Advertised Most!”, Law and the Buyer, Fraud and You, Help!, So You Want to Use a Small Claims Court, How to Save, What “Truth in Lending” Means to You, When is a “Bargain” a Bargain?, “You’re Fired!”, “So I Got My Money Back, But What’s Going to Happen to Them?”, and Things to Remember. An index is included. (WL) Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Servi’,:e (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original.