Maximize Your Grocery Budget With the Inverted Pyramid Method ... Frugal living site The Thriftiness Miss offers a simple method for organizing weekly meals—plan using an inverted pyramid pattern.

On the value of the inverted pyramid as a story form, for example, Don Fry is a doody head. Don delivers fiery orations condemning the pyramid to writer’s hell.

The inverted pyramid and trapezoid have a lot in common — just as those two stories do. The news comes first. Why readers should care is high up. How they did it is in the middle.

The inverted pyramid structure isn’t a new invention, but businesses that haven’t yet taken advantage of this way of thinking might not realize what they’re missing.