{"id":11480,"date":"2020-05-01T22:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T06:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2020-05-01T22:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T06:26:15","slug":"seeing-spikes-in-traffic-for-cheap-one-dollar-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/seeing-spikes-in-traffic-for-cheap-one-dollar-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Spikes In Traffic For Cheap One Dollar Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back a few years ago I participated in this <a href=\"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/bc-welfare-food-challenge-21-week-part-one\/\">Welfare food challenge<\/a> where the premise was for the challengers to live on a food budget of $21 a week.  I actually though that was perfectly straight forward and simple if you are used to living the frugal life.  Sure enough, I destroyed that challenge and even ha money left over.  But I then had critics saying things such as how I was just lucky as an example where various sales just happened to have appeared on the same week of this challenge.<\/p>\n<p>That then gave me an idea for fun to find an item for one dollar every day for a year to prove it wasn\u2019t a fluke.  Sure enough I created <a href=\"http:\/\/onedollarbudget.com\/\">http:\/\/onedollarbudget.com\/<\/a> and found crazy deals each day.  For the most part I just left it dormant as an archive documentary of sort.  But I realized recently with this pandemic for some reason that site started to get a lot of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine during these times people are tight on a budget and want to find the cheapest priced items as possible.  It\u2019s just kind of neat to see this happening and reminds you how there is always a specific time in history where your work can be invaluable even if that doesn\u2019t\u2019 seem to be the case today.  Keep creating as you never know who you can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back a few years ago I participated in this Welfare food challenge where the premise was for the challengers to live on a food budget of $21 a week. I actually though that was perfectly straight forward and simple if you are used to living the frugal life. Sure enough, I destroyed that challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11481,"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":[21,6165,1807],"class_list":["post-11480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-money","tag-one-dollar-budget","tag-traffic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/watermelon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2Za","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480","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=11480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}