{"id":19,"date":"2025-10-29T00:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/?p=19"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:51:49","slug":"what-i-stopped-buying-to-save-more-each-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/2025\/10\/29\/what-i-stopped-buying-to-save-more-each-month\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Stopped Buying to Save More Each Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I first started tracking my spending, I was shocked by how many \u201clittle\u201d things added up. A $7 treat here, a forgotten subscription there \u2014 it didn\u2019t feel like much\u2026 until it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over time, I started shifting my habits \u2014 not by cutting everything, but by getting honest about what I didn\u2019t actually miss. I stopped buying trendy skincare I never finished, random Amazon \u201corganizers\u201d that didn\u2019t actually help, and food I let go bad before I got around to eating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post isn\u2019t about deprivation \u2014 it\u2019s about awareness. I still buy lattes. I still splurge on things I love. But I\u2019ve learned how to filter the mindless spending that was quietly draining my budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s the full list of what I stopped buying \u2014 and how much I\u2019m saving each month because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started tracking my spending, I was shocked by how many \u201clittle\u201d things added up. A $7 treat here, a forgotten subscription there \u2014 it didn\u2019t feel like much\u2026 until it did. Over time, I started shifting my habits \u2014 not by cutting everything, but by getting honest about what I didn\u2019t actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saving-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethemenook.com\/hermoneyblogpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}