{"id":51,"date":"2005-12-06T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgeandshannon.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2005-12-06T00:33:47","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T06:33:47","slug":"shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/shopping","title":{"rendered":"Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the kids and I headed out to do some shopping. Within walking distance from the first store was a Goodwill. Inside Goodwill, in the toy aisle, was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00007GCYP\/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Fflat-hi%5Fush05toys%5F11600000%5F2\/002-5689137-5501612\">EleFun<\/a> game. Emily played this game at a friend&#8217;s house <em>MONTHS<\/em> ago and has been asking for one ever since. They usually cost somewhere between $13 and $17. The EleFun game on the Goodwill shelf looked like it had only been played a few times. It included all the original pieces, plus 4 working C batteries (usually not included), for $1.99. How can you turn that down?  The 4 batteries alone would have cost more than that! We bought it and had a good discussion about the price difference and what a good deal we got because it was used, blah, blah, blah. <\/p>\n<p>And then what did I do next? It was lunch time so we stopped to eat. I spent almost $12 and got up from the lunch table with 2 kid&#8217;s meal toys and temporarily satisfied tummies. Why did I make such a big deal to Emily about how we just &#8220;saved&#8221; $11 and thenI go and spend $12, without even thinking twice, on something that&#8217;s so temporary? Arghh.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, the EleFun game WAS a big hit at our house tonight. We have been trying to play more games with Emily in the evenings and this is one of the first times we have played a game that Nathan can actually participate in as well. We have definitely gotten $1.99 out of it so far.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the kids and I headed out to do some shopping. Within walking distance from the first store was a Goodwill. Inside Goodwill, in the toy aisle, was an EleFun game. Emily played this game at a friend&#8217;s house MONTHS ago and has been asking for one ever since. They usually cost somewhere between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}