{"id":3824,"date":"2012-05-24T23:26:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T07:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2012-05-24T23:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T07:26:32","slug":"sense-of-value-versus-real-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/sense-of-value-versus-real-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense of Value Versus Real Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an interesting mindset\/scenario this was.  Imagine that you are currently using a pre-paid phone plan that costs about $12\/month where you get sixty minutes of talk a month and it auto renews.  Every month that you have unused minutes it carries over until you use up the minutes or cease to pay for a month.    There is then this other plan that gives you the same minutes except it is about $7 a month and unused minutes simply get thrown out.  Now for the person&#8217;s usage they barely even use 30 minutes a month.  Which one do you think is better for them?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting thing was I thought the second option would make more sense.  However, the person was adamant in keeping the $12 plan because they insisted that since they get the minutes carried over that it is a better deal.  Points were then brought up that if it ever turned out that they did need more then 60 minutes a month then it would be worth it.  From what I saw though that has never been the case for years the person has been on that plan.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it is just hard for many people to give up having more even if they don&#8217;t use it.  Makes you think at how many other things like this we do which ultimately just ends up making people spend more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an interesting mindset\/scenario this was. Imagine that you are currently using a pre-paid phone plan that costs about $12\/month where you get sixty minutes of talk a month and it auto renews. Every month that you have unused minutes it carries over until you use up the minutes or cease to pay for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6886,"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":[35,5954,21,435,1806,821],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-finance","tag-financial-management","tag-money","tag-savings","tag-usage","tag-value"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tablet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-ZG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","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=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}