Hello everyone,

My family diaries are extensive, some family members wrote down their experiences and impressions of life, but they are rather personal, with no strong historical context.
But I would like to show everyone a financial curiosity, in memory of posterity and for self-education – this is how our ancestor kept a book of home expenses in the early 20th century – a selected card – January 1910:

– I tried to read a rather difficult handwriting –

-Determination of the money bill from January 1 – Ruble / Kopiejki: 1910

– For shooting a carter’s whips -1
– Payment of the lease from December 5 to January 2 -21/53
– Cecylia’s salary … -11
– ?… -1
– Spirit … -3/20
– Butter … -3/30
– Taxes … -217/91
– Dery 2 on Horses -5
– ?… /90
– Shoemaker for lining his shoes … -8/30
– Iron … -1/80
– Digestible (?) 20 .. for a trip of 2 skins … – 1/10
– For a box of wheat flour … -3
– For twine 30 … with bread … – / 69
– for the chimney sweep … -2/50
– For butter … -2/37 ..
– For postal envelopes … -5/75
– Subscription of the magazines of Tygodnik i Bluszcz … -4/20
– Percent 80 … -122
– Cylinders and Wicks … – / 66
– Michałce … -18
– For coal … -4
– For cold cuts… -2/16
– Lids 24-spoons and 14 scoops 25 – / 63
Total 1p. -442/80 -442/80

The second page for January also includes other items – Sukno, Czapka, Strawa, Pogorzelcom, Wojciechowa, For ham, Bread and rolls, Son, Zośka, Piotr, Procentu, For subscription Sława, For fustian, 12ft veal, Miczałka took the bag, Muzyce , Stewards, Pachciarzaz for errands, For butter, Piotr did errands in Łódź, For flowers from Wujeń, Piotr’s salary, Stewards, Bread and rolls, Coal, Cotton wool, Liver, Pork, For 1 and 1/2 butter, Stewards, For 7 Goats coal For 3 pots of Kashka, Andrzej Piotrowski took his salary, wire for repairing chains, Lemons, Payment of the lease from 2 January to 30 January.
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And so through all the months of 1910 and 1911, and earlier since 1905.

If the National GA.PA allows it, it can put all the pages in the gallery, but there are several dozen pages of this, and this can only be for connoisseurs and lovers of history.
But let even this 1 page give us a taste of the life of Polish families at the beginning of the 20th century.

I cordially greet all visitors of the GA.PA National Gallery,

Jerzy Mioduszewski