{"id":10135,"date":"2018-09-29T21:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T05:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=10135"},"modified":"2018-09-30T22:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T06:00:26","slug":"resisting-urge-purchase-items-minor-intended-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/resisting-urge-purchase-items-minor-intended-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting The Urge To Purchase Items For Minor Intended Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was one of those days where I felt if I had something like a powerful laptop I could have gotten so much extra things done which kind of made me think maybe it\u2019s time to get one.  However, I have actually held off for years in doing so and putting things in perspective I still didn\u2019t really need it in the overall picture.  But those one instances like today sure make it tempting.<\/p>\n<p>I just personally hate investing thousands in something if all I would use it for is maybe once every two weeks.  This would hold true for even larger things large car.  Like in that case I would rather just use the public transportation or take a taxi if I really needed it.  That has helped me to not spend too much money on stuff that I don\u2019t really need kind of like how people have a closet full of clothes they never wear.<\/p>\n<p>I do use that criteria often where if something is going to cost in the range of the thousands then it has to pass the test on whether or not I am going to be using it say at least 5 days a week.  Otherwise more than likely I don\u2019t really need it and can wait for a better deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was one of those days where I felt if I had something like a powerful laptop I could have gotten so much extra things done which kind of made me think maybe it\u2019s time to get one. However, I have actually held off for years in doing so and putting things in perspective I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[7192,3700,7193],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-minor-use","tag-purchase","tag-urge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/above-vancouver-eye-of-wind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2Dt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}