{"id":1371,"date":"2010-03-10T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T08:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2021-03-07T17:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:27:54","slug":"returning-to-the-consumer-economy-things-im-leaving-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"Returning to the Consumer Economy &#8211; Things I&#8217;m Leaving Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The past year has been an interesting experience for me as I transitioned from being fully employed, through unemployment and underemployment and now into self employement via my business,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameronknowles.com\/\">Cameron Knowles Creative Services<\/a>. As you might imagine, I economized as best as possible including cutting out expenses when I could. Below are a list of casual expenses I abandoned and will try not to return to as my personal economic recovery continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Fast Food:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did two tours of duty at the BK lounge (Burger King), as a teenager, and enjoyed their food an nearly all of their competitors on a daily basis. Running from place to place in my career, I always seemed to find time to grab a bag of something and shove it in my mouth. I have countless ruined shirts to show for the experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past year, I rediscovered how much I like to cook, and now plan meals for the week, with basic building blocks that I can assemble and create quickly for lunch and dinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gas Station Goodies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wasn&#8217;t filling up the tank as much, and when I did so, I just grabbed my gas and went. Now, when I wander through the aisles at the Gas Station, I shake my head at the goodies I gobbled and have left behind. BBQ Fritos&#8230; Adios! Twix with Peanut Butter &#8211; Ta Ta. Later, Lay&#8217;s. Bet I can&#8217;t eat just zero! Taquitos, Hot Dogs, fountain drinks, see ya!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Lottery Tickets:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was the weekly, one dollar easy pick guy. Occasionally, I&#8217;d try another game. The education departments of the various states where I&#8217;ve worked will have to get along without my volunteer tax payment.<\/p>\n<p>I am spending a bit more now, but also better off for realizing how much I could do without with some involuntary belt tightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past year has been an interesting experience for me as I transitioned from being fully employed, through unemployment and underemployment and now into self employement via my business,\u00a0Cameron Knowles Creative Services. As you might imagine, I economized as best as possible including cutting out expenses when I could. Below are a list of casual expenses I abandoned and will try not to return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}