{"id":264,"date":"2021-05-02T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/?p=264"},"modified":"2021-05-02T01:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T01:25:40","slug":"trappings-of-a-random-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/trading-philosophy\/trappings-of-a-random-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Trappings of a Random Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>People often ask me how I can afford to travel so much, so this Saturday I stayed home. This is how it turned out:<br \/>0800 Slept in, decided today I was going to &#8220;make&#8221; some money by turning in my empty aluminum cans (I had three big trashcans full of them).<br \/>0830 Got to the recycling center in Riverside, CA but the sign said it didn&#8217;t open until 0900 so I went to the car wash.<br \/>0835 Car Wash was $9. (Total -9)<br \/>0845 Still wasn&#8217;t 0900 so I decided to get a &#8220;15 minute&#8221; oil change at Jiffy Lube. Cost was $52. (Total -61)<br \/>0855 Jiffy Lube informs me that somehow I have lost my valve stem covers so I go on Amazon to buy new ones. Cost was $7.88. (Total -68.88)<br \/>0930 I get out of the &#8220;15 minute&#8221; oil change and go back to the Riverside recycling center. Long line, but the center is not open. <br \/>0945 I decide to go to the recycling center in Moreno Valley. I am amazed at how many aluminum cans people can stuff in their car. I am given $8.71 for my recycling. (Total -60.17)<br \/>1000 Invite Denise out to check out the new empanada shop that opened downtown. Cost $16 (-76.17)<br \/>1130 Notice my gas tank is under 1\/4 , refill to full. Cost $40 (-116.17)<\/p>\r\n<p>1200 I get home and AJ tells me that he twisted his power chord adapter for his laptop that he uses for school. Cost $20.65 (-136.82)<\/p>\r\n<p>1400 I realize that it is Fast Sunday weekend and I know the two empanadas I ate earlier is not going to tide me over for 24 hrs. and I don&#8217;t want to cook so I ask Denise to order fast food Chinese. Cost $16.73 (-153.55)<\/p>\r\n<p>1800 Denise asks me what I did today and I realize it isn&#8217;t much so I decide to make this blog post. $153.55 to do nothing. That is more than my plane tickets to Morelia, Mexico plane tickets cost. I think there is better ways to spend my time. I don&#8217;t care too much about the $153.55 , I can get that back. I can&#8217;t however get my time back, that is gone for good. The way I see it is I was going to probably have to spend the $153.55 regardless, I would just rather spend it seeing something new.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often ask me how I can afford to travel so much, so this Saturday I stayed home. This is how it turned out:0800 Slept in, decided today I was going to &#8220;make&#8221; some money by turning in my empty &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/trading-philosophy\/trappings-of-a-random-saturday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[155,156,152,154,153],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trading-philosophy","tag-moving-forward","tag-spending-for-a-day","tag-spending-money","tag-trying-to-stay-ahead","tag-wasting-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}