{"id":3261,"date":"2011-09-23T23:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2011-09-24T05:03:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:03:49","slug":"adjusting-budgets-for-a-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/adjusting-budgets-for-a-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting Budgets For A Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at this deal today for a product I was interested in as It could help me do things more productively.  There is currently a coupon sale where I can buy the product for about half price that expires in the end of the month.  This isn&#8217;t just small change too as it is close to about a $800 savings and it rarely goes on sale.<\/p>\n<p>This would definitely be classified an unexpected purchase if I bought it and so I was seeing if there was anything I could sacrifice out of my regular spending to justify buying this.  One funny thing though is at times like these I usually think back to any kind of extra income sources that I usually don&#8217;t pay attention too much to where it is more of a surprise if I generated a decent pool of funds.  Examples of these are like say interest from a savings account or even credit card cash back bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly enough, I found about $400 dollars floating around and so this makes it even more tempting to make the purchase.  As well, with bonuses such as reward point programs I view the numbers to see if I can redeem anything of value which I would in-turn sell that to generate the funds to place towards these types of purchase.  Essentially, budgeting for a sale for me in these cases isn&#8217;t just about cutting back but what I can do proactively to generate the funds as well with what I already have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at this deal today for a product I was interested in as It could help me do things more productively. There is currently a coupon sale where I can buy the product for about half price that expires in the end of the month. This isn&#8217;t just small change too as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12142,"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":[828,70,3304,2955,1689,3303],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-budget","tag-discounts","tag-expiry-date","tag-extra-income","tag-sale","tag-sudden-sale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/HNCK3323-1300x866.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-QB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","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=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}