{"id":29233,"date":"2021-11-20T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29233"},"modified":"2021-11-20T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T14:47:26","slug":"the-savings-is-more-than-im-willing-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/20\/the-savings-is-more-than-im-willing-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Savings Is More Than I&#8217;m Willing To Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My beautiful wife has taken to gardening and has an indoor garden with a grow light that uses little pods and can grow small herbs, maybe tomatoes, and flowers.<\/p>\n<p>So I was a good target, maybe, for this ad ahead of Christmas:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/save200now.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>But, wait a minute, mister.  Save $200 now?  How expensive is this that everyone can save $200 now?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mygardyn.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gott im Himmel!<\/em><\/a>  $1000 plus a monthly membership of $30-40.<\/p>\n<p>I see a lot of ads like that.  Save $X now, where X is a lot already.  Which generally indicates it&#8217;s not something for me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wait a minute, Brian J.!  Don&#8217;t you buy $10 CDs by the bucketful?  Don&#8217;t you like to write checks greater than that amount for organizations you support?<\/em>  Well, you have me there.  And if I need a $1000 home repair, I get the $1000 home repair without thinking.  Or <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/15\/a-weekends-work\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">a thousand bucks of firewood<\/a> which is just money going up in smoke, ainna?<\/p>\n<p>But something about $200 gifts which might or might not be liked, or $200 things for myself, tend to make me blanch.  Blanch, I said&#8211;not make me into a Golden Girl.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Dave Ramsey would still go all Patton on me for my spending habits, but there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My beautiful wife has taken to gardening and has an indoor garden with a grow light that uses little pods and can grow small herbs, maybe tomatoes, and flowers. So I was a good target, maybe, for this ad ahead of Christmas: But, wait a minute, mister. Save $200 now? How expensive is this that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29236,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29233\/revisions\/29236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}