{"id":214,"date":"2001-07-25T23:24:43","date_gmt":"2001-07-26T04:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=214"},"modified":"2001-07-25T23:24:43","modified_gmt":"2001-07-26T04:24:43","slug":"false-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/07\/25\/false-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"false economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pay now for good quality or pay later when it comes to maintaining your &#8220;cheaper&#8221; solution, I always say.  Buy one $150 pair of great wearing shoes that lasts 5 years, or limp through 5 pairs of $40 ill-fitting shoes that give you blisters, one pair per year, total $200 + grief factor.<\/p>\n<p>My parents have always been quite frugal, a trait unfamiliar to many people under &#8220;a certain age&#8221;.  Sometimes, though, they&#8217;ll spend all sorts of time and grief avoiding spending money, to which I say the extra money would have been well spent.  <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got a well and a septic bed where they are, so it&#8217;s pragmatic to limit the amount of flow.  To that end, they put a brick in the toilet cistern to limit its capacity.  However, every single frickin time I take a dump, no matter how big or small, it&#8217;s at least a three-flush payload because of the goddamn brick in the back of the toilet.  Some good that does, limiting the flow.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh, I feel better having let that out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pay now for good quality or pay later when it comes to maintaining your &#8220;cheaper&#8221; solution, I always say. Buy one $150 pair of great wearing shoes that lasts 5 years, or limp through 5 pairs of $40 ill-fitting shoes that give you blisters, one pair per year, total $200 + grief factor. My parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}