{"id":499298,"date":"2010-04-01T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003972"},"modified":"2010-03-31T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:31:35","slug":"7-ways-to-tell-your-neighbors-are-running-on-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499298","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways To Tell Your Neighbors Are Running On Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/lawn-thumb-158x105-38804.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Writing on LiveCheap, Karl Wolf put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livecheap.com\/credit\/credit-cards\/301-7-telltale-signs-that-your-neighbors-are-broke\">a sad-but-funny list of signs<\/a> that reveal the poverty of those who live near you.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of the telltale indicators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>5 Pounds of Mail, Every Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take a minute and watch your neighbor grab his or her mail one day. If they come away with stacks of paper and it&#8217;s not the holidays, you&#8217;ll know something is up. Miss a few mortgage postalpayments or property taxes and everyone and their cousin starts to flood your mailbox and they&#8217;re not sending you love letters. And if your neighbors are late making payments on their credit card bills, they&#8217;ll get notices piled high. If you see the Joneses with wheel barrow or duffel bag each day to grab their mail, it&#8217;s a sure sign that there&#8217;s no love lost between them and their creditors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landscape Me Not:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spring time usually ushers in the new round of flowers, plants, and typical landscaping improvements. But if your neighbor&#8217;s yard doesn&#8217;t change a bit after years of top of the line grooming, it might be because the credit cards are maxed out and the checking account is more than a little light this year. Lots of people are skipping landscaping in this the third real year of the Great Recession.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice any of these giveaways and you know some neighborly financial kindness might be in order. Do you have any other signs to add? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livecheap.com\/credit\/credit-cards\/301-7-telltale-signs-that-your-neighbors-are-broke\">7 Telltale Signs That Your Neighbors Are Broke<\/a> [LiveCheap]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing on LiveCheap, Karl Wolf put together a sad-but-funny list of signs that reveal the poverty of those who live near you. Here are a couple of the telltale indicators: 5 Pounds of Mail, Every Day Take a minute and watch your neighbor grab his or her mail one day. If they come away with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499298","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\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}