{"id":175988,"date":"2019-10-01T14:52:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=175988"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T22:42:14","slug":"bang-for-the-buck-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/01\/bang-for-the-buck-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bang for the Buck Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More impressive saving money&#8230; or more impressive getting more bang for the buck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>RICOH GR III: The performance for the price is phenomenal ($899)<\/li><li>iPad: Essentially a computer for only $330!!<\/li><li>Google Pixel 3 A: A brand new smartphone for only $399!<\/li><li>Buying cars, electronics, or anything digital used or refurbished. Massive savings on anything 1-3+ older (consider buying a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/refurbished\/iphone\">refurbished iPhone<\/a> or MacBook Pro for maximal savings, or even a used Tesla). <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or with lifestyle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Starbucks cold brew coffee (no water, no ice). Essentially feels like 10 shots of espresso in a small cup. I often only drink 1\/8-1-4th the cup, and save it for the next morning or day. Cold brew as a superior \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bang for the buck\u00e2\u20ac\u009d even when compared to drip coffee or espresso.<\/li><li>Shark shoes (water shoes): For $15, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the ultimate walking shoes and powerlifting shoes. The ultimate minimalist shoe, but FAR cheaper than the Vibram 5 fingers.<\/li><li>Black merino wool leggings, shirt: Hyper lightweight, warm, and you can wear them everyday.<\/li><li>Intermittent fasting during the day (no need to waste money or time on cooking breakfast or paying for lunch). Eating a massive dinner at home with crock potting pork (often less than $1.50 a pound), or cooking up eggs (a dozen for less than $1.50).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bang for the buck as more fun, challenging, hunting, interesting.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My definition of economics is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>How to achieve more with less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for life, trying to figure out how to get more value from something with less money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore our simple goal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Trying to discover new hacks to maximize living life, with minimizing cost and hassle!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More impressive saving money&#8230; or more impressive getting more bang for the buck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/34F1E319-3593-4ADD-9723-F4D5734FAAF5.jpeg?fit=6000%2C4000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175996,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175988\/revisions\/175996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}