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The same ideas, of course, apply to style numbers and
prices. If you happen to work in the clothing line, and wish
to remember the style numbers of, say, dresses—associate
the number to an outstanding feature of the dress. If style
#351 is a dress with a back panel, you might "see" that
panel melting; melt—351. The dress with puffed sleeves
is style #3140; associate "mattress" to the puffed sleeves,
etc.
The prices of the dresses can be included in the same
association. I'm giving you only one or two examples for
each idea, because it is always best for you to use your own
imagination. It is entirely up to you as to which method
you will use for remembering dates and how you will asso-
ciate style numbers and prices, etc. The ideas, however,
can be applied in any business.
Prices can be memorized just as anything else that has
to do with numbers. Just associate the price to the item. To
avoid confusion, you might decide to always use the basic
peg words for dollars, and any other word that fits phonet-
ically, for cents. The same methods have to be used here,
as for telephone numbers and dates. You can use one word
to represent three or four digits because you'll usually know
if an item is priced in the hundreds of dollars, or not.
If you had associated "maple" with book, you'd know
that the price of the book is probably $3.95, and not