(long before there were $Ts in collective usury-grade CC-debt!! to notice, dumbfounded) when finally deciding to acquire (say) a Royal portable typewriter "on time" it was about
... "if you cut off an inch at a time of a puppy dog's tail he won't even notice it!"

May you, like Scheherazade, dazzle the vanity of the conspicuous bean-counters, one month at a time. Eh?