{"id":1285,"date":"2016-07-09T21:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2016-07-09T21:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T02:47:20","slug":"buy-only-what-youll-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Buy Only What You&#8217;ll Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"7\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/7.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Give yourself time\u00a0to think about every purchase. \u00a0That&#8217;s what Carl Richards, for the New York Times suggests in his article,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/06\/your-money\/new-rule-all-purchases-subject-to-a-7-day-mental-quarantine.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share&amp;_r=0\">New Rule: All Purchases Subject to a 7-Day Mental Quarantine<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong>We have a similar process in our house for purchases made at Goodwill. \u00a0If you bring it home, you must clean it and incorporate it into your life within seven days or it goes back to Goodwill. \u00a0In many ways, this\u00a0compares to the seven-day item quarantine Carl&#8217;s family is currently using.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the quarantine, the person desiring the object must answer the following questions:\u00a0How much did it cost? Are you replacing something you already own? Why do you think it\u2019s amazing? And if it\u2019s food, are you sure you\u2019ll eat it? \u00a0Once the time limit has passed, it is much easier to make an &#8216;informed&#8217; decision and not end up with something you&#8217;ll never wear, use or eat. \u00a0Give it a try and let us know if it works for you in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give yourself time\u00a0to think about every purchase. \u00a0That&#8217;s what Carl Richards, for the New York Times suggests in his article,\u00a0New Rule: All Purchases Subject to a 7-Day Mental Quarantine. \u00a0We have a similar process in our house for purchases made at Goodwill. \u00a0If you bring it home, you must clean it and incorporate it into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buy Only What You&#8217;ll Use<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[676,677,675,165,678,469,674,673],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-finances","tag-buying","tag-carl-richards","tag-clothes","tag-food","tag-goodwill","tag-new-york-times","tag-purchases","tag-seven-day-quarantine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}