Narrow Bracketing

You may not know the name Narrow Bracketing, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.

Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.

The housewife with her kitchen budget runs a tighter ship than most finance departments. She knows the difference between price and cost — one is on the tag, the other is on the month.

Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.