{"id":2685,"date":"2008-11-27T17:40:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2008-11-27T17:40:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T17:40:55","slug":"december_is_exp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/december_is_exp\/","title":{"rendered":"december is expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>beyond all the xmas presents, i&#8217;ve got a few significant birthdays in december\/early january. then there&#8217;s all the socializing. to date, i&#8217;ve got two potlucks i need to prepare dishes for, one work lunch and the vandigicam photo swap.  in addition, there will be at least three more work lunches, a possible third potluck and my dad&#8217;s 75th birthday dinner.<br \/>\ni just roughed out a quick list of approximate costs and we&#8217;re looking at well over $200!  not including the presents i&#8217;ve already purchased and craft supplies i have yet to buy  or expenses traveling to\/from the island.  when your budget runs as tight as mine, $200 is a lot of money.<br \/>\nno wonder i had an anxiety attack yesterday.<br \/>\ni&#8217;m not really complaining, either. i don&#8217;t begrudge the additional costs related to the season; but, i think having all these expenses lumped together during one month of the year is annoying.  i&#8217;m just lucky and grateful that i can afford to do an all-cash christmas and not have to borrow money to pay for any of it.  there&#8217;s a lot of people out there who don&#8217;t have the luxury of saying the same, especially with the way things are in the world today.<br \/>\ni can only hope that once i get stuff photographed and up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/hessiebell.etsy.com\">etsy store<\/a>, i&#8217;ll be selling like crazy and not worrying about where i can cut costs to pay for all the winter wonder.<br \/>\nsee?  i&#8217;m still an optimist at heart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beyond all the xmas presents, i&#8217;ve got a few significant birthdays in december\/early january. then there&#8217;s all the socializing. to date, i&#8217;ve got two potlucks i need to prepare dishes for, one work lunch and the vandigicam photo swap. in addition, there will be at least three more work lunches, a possible third potluck and <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/december_is_exp\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}