{"id":3204,"date":"2011-09-02T23:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2011-09-03T03:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T11:13:06","slug":"no-financing-for-basic-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/no-financing-for-basic-items\/","title":{"rendered":"No Financing For Basic Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching this show today that revolved around a couple that was in debt and it was amazing as so many of their possessions were acquired through some kind of credit financing plan.  Even items like a vacuum cleaner and couch were acquired through financing.  Not surprisingly they were in a lot of debt.<\/p>\n<p>My mind when it comes to financing items is to only do so if it is an extreme necessity while costing a lot of money.  That would be something like a house.  There is no way I would finance like say a couch though as I would like to think if you can&#8217;t just outright buy an item like that then you shouldn&#8217;t be buying it in the first place as it is out of your lifestyle budget.<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of when I was talking to this car salesmen before where I was just looking around for the heck of it.  He asked me if I was looking to finance a car and I said no as if I was buying one that I would just outright buy it.  He then told me that it doesn&#8217;t make sense to just outright buy it as if I had that much money I would be hiring a guy to just go down there to buy it for me.  Course, I recognize that he said that to try and weigh in if I actually did have the ability to outright buy it.  <\/p>\n<p>But the funny thing in that case I thought was that if the guy so desperately wanted me to get a car through financing that in the end it must be way more expensive where he would more money that way.  So it just makes sense where if you can&#8217;t buy it outright in my mind that you should try and save up more funds first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching this show today that revolved around a couple that was in debt and it was amazing as so many of their possessions were acquired through some kind of credit financing plan. Even items like a vacuum cleaner and couch were acquired through financing. Not surprisingly they were in a lot of debt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11567,"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":[5954,3264,1123,1089,3266,21,3265],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-financial-management","tag-financing","tag-house","tag-interest","tag-large-items","tag-money","tag-small-items"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turnout.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\/3204","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=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}