{"id":8369,"date":"2016-07-06T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T06:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2016-07-06T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T06:22:58","slug":"can-cheap-stuff-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/can-cheap-stuff-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can The Cheap Stuff Be So Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching one of these \u201clife hack\u201d type of videos today where it revolved around household items and the many things you can use a plain old lemon for.  I almost feel kind of dumb watching this stuff if all the solutions that are shown are just as effective to spending a lot of money on commercialized solutions.  For example, are bugs really that afraid of citrus smell where placing a lemon in your window can scare away mosquitos?  To think people pay like hundreds of dollars for traps as an example.  You can see the video here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FJvNWYkHNg4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While of course the idea of saving money is an enticing reason to create a habit of using solutions like these, I just love how it opens up your mind as to all the things you initially thought are so complex where it requires an expensive solution.  In reality a dirt simple and cheap solution like this can work just as well.<\/p>\n<p>I am almost inclined like here to say that the \u201ccheap\u201d solutions are the \u201csmart\u201d solutions in almost every way.  It\u2019s too bad that \u201ccheap\u201d is usually associated with \u201cbad\u201d though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching one of these \u201clife hack\u201d type of videos today where it revolved around household items and the many things you can use a plain old lemon for. I almost feel kind of dumb watching this stuff if all the solutions that are shown are just as effective to spending a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6888,"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":[6394,1370,6395,5396,44],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-cheap-stuff","tag-ideas","tag-lemon","tag-life-hacks","tag-saving-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1042.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","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=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8370,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions\/8370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}