{"id":2729,"date":"2011-01-27T23:47:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T07:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2011-01-28T04:48:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:48:17","slug":"trying-to-buy-your-way-out-of-financial-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/trying-to-buy-your-way-out-of-financial-dilemmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Buy Your Way Out of Financial Dilemmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just catching up on some news as usual from various sites and one thing that kept coming in-front of me were all these articles about managing debt and how you should buy these kits that cost about $200 to teach you basic information on how people get into debt so that you avoid it yourself.  This was targeting people that were in debt too.  I was thinking how ironic that kit is in many ways as I would think spending that much money would just place you in a deeper hole financially as my assumption is that most people get into debt cause they keep buying stuff that they can&#8217;t really afford in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the real question is how do you get out of that habit where you think that you can always just buy your way out of a financial dilemma?  For myself I usually have the mentality where if I got myself into a mess then I should rightfully try my best to find a way to solve it with my own energy and effort with the current resources that I have available.<\/p>\n<p>This has to be a lifestyle habit in general, in my opinion.  For example, if you are running a business and you need more revenue for whatever reason I&#8217;m sure it would sound pretty odd where instead of focusing on capturing more market share and working on the company&#8217;s spending habits you instead  spend thousands on a seminar that promises to teach you how companies get into debt in the first place.  That just seems like an odd direction to go with.<\/p>\n<p>No real difference in your personal life I say if you are trying to get out of a financial pickle.  If you don&#8217;t have a lot of money shouldn&#8217;t the first reaction be to just look at yourself and to find out where it is all going to?  You don&#8217;t need to spend money to find that out.  And hey, it&#8217;s free to do if you get into the habit of assessing yourself and your situations.  From there you can usually come up with a lot of solutions to your issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just catching up on some news as usual from various sites and one thing that kept coming in-front of me were all these articles about managing debt and how you should buy these kits that cost about $200 to teach you basic information on how people get into debt so that you avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6888,"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":[297,1193,35,2907,2049,2034],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-debt","tag-experience","tag-finance","tag-financial-assessment","tag-products","tag-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1042.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-I1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}