{"id":14228,"date":"2021-02-01T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14228"},"modified":"2021-02-07T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T21:09:50","slug":"daily_2209_-_i_splurged_on_a_lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/daily_2209_-_i_splurged_on_a_lamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2209 &#8211; I splurged on a lamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2209_lamp.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nOne part of adulting that I still haven&#8217;t fully learned is allowing myself to spend money on nice things. Even when there is no doubt whatsoever that I can afford it, and I know it to be useful and believe it to be beautiful, there is still a twinge of guilt.<\/p>\n<p>It took an effort to spend 700 SEK on this useful and beautiful lamp.<\/p>\n<p>These days I usually manage to recognize this feeling and sometimes decide overcome it. But frugality is easier for me than splurging, and asceticism comes more naturally than indulgence.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, this means that I spend much less than I earn and there is always money left over at the end of the month, and unless I do something spectacularly stupid in the future, I won&#8217;t have to worry about running out of money when I&#8217;m old. Maybe I&#8217;ll learn to splurge when I&#8217;m ninety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One part of adulting that I still haven&#8217;t fully learned is allowing myself to spend money on nice things. Even when there is no doubt whatsoever that I can afford it, and I know it to be useful and believe it to be beautiful, there is still a twinge of guilt. It took an effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14233,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions\/14233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}