{"id":284464,"date":"2020-11-04T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=284464"},"modified":"2020-11-04T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T17:33:50","slug":"when-to-spend-more-money-when-to-spend-less-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/04\/when-to-spend-more-money-when-to-spend-less-money\/","title":{"rendered":"When to spend more money, when to spend less money?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To save money for the sake of saving money or refusing always to use money and resources is foolish and scrooge-like. What we gotta determine and figure out is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In which *contexts* is saving money good and in which contexts is *spending* more money better?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you&#8217;re an internet entrepreneur, spending <strong><em>more<\/em><\/strong> money on a faster home wifi connection is wise. For example I&#8217;m sooooo much happier and more productive having insanely fast wifi at home (Verizon gigabit fiber optic internet speeds at home) for far faster upload speeds, which means I can produce and share more with less delay, less lag and less frustration! Morale: <strong>don&#8217;t cheap out when it comes to your home wifi connection<\/strong>.<\/li><li>I have zero qualms on spending a bunch of money on (cheap) cuts of meat. For example I can buy pork for only 99 cents a pound. So I&#8217;ll buy a shitload of meat for home, and eat as much as I desire when I break my fast for dinner!<\/li><li>If you&#8217;re cold at home during the winter, fuck it &#8212; just crank up the heat! And if you&#8217;re cold outdoors, wise to spend a lot of money on very good warm winter clothes (especially if you plan on spending a lot of time outdoors). Get a good down jacket, good merino wool socks, a good goretex jacket or good goretex boots.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s a poor use of money? My thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Expensive smartphones are a horrible life decision. Same goes with expensive cars.<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t waste money on expensive designer clothes which aren&#8217;t functional or warm. Best to think of clothing more as battle armor.<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t waste money on expensive sneakers. Best to just buy some very good Goretex shoes (Asolo, Salomon) instead.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To save money for the sake of saving money or refusing always to use money and resources is foolish and scrooge-like. What we gotta determine and figure out is this: In which *contexts* is saving money good and in which contexts is *spending* more money better? Some thoughts: If you&#8217;re an internet entrepreneur, spending more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284375,"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-284464","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\/2020\/11\/new-gym-117-of-119-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284464","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=284464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284474,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284464\/revisions\/284474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}