{"id":152632,"date":"2010-01-08T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28943539.post-1843401467767824585"},"modified":"2010-01-08T00:50:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:50:18","slug":"no-spend-month-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/152632","title":{"rendered":"No Spend Month: Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week 1 of No Spend Month<\/a> has been successful, if I do say-so-myself. <\/p>\n

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Working really cuts into my urges to spend and shop! haha.<\/p>\n

To remind everyone, I only want to purchase essentials for the month of January. My goal in this whole process is to save and appreciate life without having to buy and consume mindlessly.<\/p>\n

 Luckily, I have three movie gift certificates from work, so that is helping in the entertainment department.<\/p>\n

We’ve been eating in, of course.  I had left over tomato sauce in the freezer, so we had that, among other things. I am realizing more and more how much food I do have at times when I think I have nothing! Creativity helps!<\/p>\n

The challenge is to find fun activities that do not involve spending for the both of us. When I’m alone, no problem. I can read, surf the net, CLEAN, organize, etc. But when we’re together, it’s like…what do you want to do? I dunno, what do you want to do?
\nAnyone have this issue? Please offer suggestions on things to do. The problem is that I tend to sleep most of the day since I’m on the night shift schedule, so then we need activities to do at night…<\/p>\n

I do have to confess though. I have spent on something that may not have been an essential.
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\nI bought new pillows today.
\nBut in my rationalized defense, my pillows were over a year old, flattened, and making it difficult to fall asleep. Also, I bought cheap-o ones from Walmart, and only two (I have four total on my bed!), sooooo we’ll call it an essential.<\/p>\n

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In other news, I got the night off, giving me 6 nights off in a row! I don’t go back until Wednesday, so Mirza and I can enjoy the rest of his vacation until school starts!<\/p>\n

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Week 1 of No Spend Month has been successful, if I do say-so-myself. Working really cuts into my urges to spend and shop! haha. To remind everyone, I only want to purchase essentials for the month of January. My goal in this whole process is to save and appreciate life without having to buy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}