{"id":1566,"date":"2009-08-15T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2009-08-15T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:51:13","slug":"changing-friends-for-a-few-months-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/changing-friends-for-a-few-months-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Friends For A Few Months Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard of this before and to a certain I agree where for a lot of people most of their spending habits are directly influenced by the type of people one regularly associates with.  Example, rowdy people are more likely to spend a lot of money on parties and high fashionable items.<\/p>\n<p>So just recently a person told me that he was going to try and alienate a large portion of his friendship circle for a few months and only hang around people who are debt free.  Therefore, he wants to see if this will actually make a significant improvement to his financial situation as maybe their habits will rub on to him too.<\/p>\n<p>I never had to do anything like this.  One thing is for sure though, whenever I hang around people who just seem to spend spend spend I will naturally tend to spend a little more too as many times you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to come across as being say rude.  Example, if someone orders like a huge meal and you are not hungry you will be inclined to order something just to not make them feel awkward.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested in seeing how this turns out for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard of this before and to a certain I agree where for a lot of people most of their spending habits are directly influenced by the type of people one regularly associates with. Example, rowdy people are more likely to spend a lot of money on parties and high fashionable items. So just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6885,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[2095,502,210,2094],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-financial-habits","tag-friends","tag-habits","tag-social-circle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/timemoney.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-pg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","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=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}