{"id":7993,"date":"2016-02-19T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=7993"},"modified":"2016-02-19T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T06:34:09","slug":"small-monthly-payments-to-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/small-monthly-payments-to-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Monthly Payments To Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my brother was telling me that he decided to buy one of those high end Dyson vacuums as he felt it would make life a lot easier.   The thing is these things are darn expensive where you could easily spend over five hundred dollars for it.  He\u2019s not exactly pouring in the money either as he has things like mortgages to pay for like most people.<\/p>\n<p>The other reason why he bought it was the key thing that stood out to me.  Essentially he was watching one of those shopping channel programs on TV where the product was being shown and they offered people one of those \u201ceasy payments\u201d where you could say pay forty dollars a month.  He was expressing how that is so cheap and so he decided to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>I always viewed things like these as financial disasters waiting to happen.  The next thing you know, you purchased like a new TV or bed under these kinds of payment plans where you can\u2019t actually afford it in full.  If any kind of unexpected financial expense comes up you are pretty much left in a sticky situation.  Just like with buying things with a credit card, if you can\u2019t pay for the item in full by the end of the cycle then you should be buying it period I feel.<\/p>\n<p>There is just too much uncertainty in my view when it comes to making purchases like these.  The fact that it feels so little initially is even more reason to stay away I think as it is too enticing like here to rack up a multitude of stuff to the point where you will be paying like five hundred a month in things you probably did not need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my brother was telling me that he decided to buy one of those high end Dyson vacuums as he felt it would make life a lot easier. The thing is these things are darn expensive where you could easily spend over five hundred dollars for it. He\u2019s not exactly pouring in the money either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8889,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[6243,6242,35,21],"class_list":["post-7993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-affordability","tag-easy-payments","tag-finance","tag-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lakeballoon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-24V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993","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=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7994,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions\/7994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}