{"id":3481,"date":"2011-12-28T23:22:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2011-12-30T00:59:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T08:59:43","slug":"overall-less-shopping-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/overall-less-shopping-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Overall Less Shopping This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This season it seems like I haven&#8217;t made any purchases where I regretted it afterwards such as seeing the price of an item drop dramatically shortly after a purchase.  So that means I won&#8217;t have to line up at stores to do any returns or exchanges either.  I think this year I spent the less for some reason too as I guess retailers just didn&#8217;t have that many must buy deals for myself.<\/p>\n<p>I guess another big reason for this too is that this year for the holiday season I chose to keep busy by doing something new as a seasonal gig which was a fun experience that is only offered during these times of the years.  So instead of treating it like a vacation this month and simply shopping I got to do some new stuff.  I suppose in general that&#8217;s one way to make you shop less.<\/p>\n<p>I do still have one big purchase though and that will probably be done tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season it seems like I haven&#8217;t made any purchases where I regretted it afterwards such as seeing the price of an item drop dramatically shortly after a purchase. So that means I won&#8217;t have to line up at stores to do any returns or exchanges either. I think this year I spent the less [&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":[1],"tags":[21,2632,123],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-money","tag-planning","tag-shopping"],"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-U9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","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=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/3482"}],"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=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}