{"id":4953,"date":"2019-12-06T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bracketyackrc.wpengine.com\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T08:00:55","slug":"ti-the-eaon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4953","title":{"rendered":"TI$ THE $EA$ON"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Caisi Calandra<\/em><\/p>\n

Hear me out — I love shopping. At any given moment of writing this article, just know I\u2019m probably tempted to turn this into a <\/span>Confessions of a Shopaholic<\/span><\/i> thing. In the spirit of keeping things Holiday-oriented, I wanted to do a piece on the crazy shopping \u201cholidays\u201d we have going on this time of year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only do we as Americans spend a lot of money during the holidays, but the average American is said to spend over $700 on holiday gifts and goodies — the final spending amount coming in at around $465 <\/span>billion<\/span><\/i> dollars, according to <\/span>ABC News<\/span><\/i>. Now, I don\u2019t know about you, but, while I\u2019m in love with shopping, I do so sparingly because I don\u2019t have a lot of money; I don\u2019t regularly, if ever, ask my parents for money.<\/span><\/p>\n

My sisters and I got our first iPhones on a Black Friday event because they were cheaper, and my mother, who was still on the edge of getting them for us, decided it was a good deal. I think I was in my sophomore year of high school when I finally got that iPhone, and it was thankfully because of the deals on such a crazy holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n

I personally still go out on Black Fridays because I like finding affordable gifts for friends. I feel like there\u2019s a lot of criticism around people who go \u201chard\u201d on Black Friday, but I think those kinds of people just want to finally fulfill a want without breaking the bank. Sure, you can say we\u2019re all sheep and giving into the ever-present obsession with material goods, but we live in a capitalistic society, and I don\u2019t see that changing anytime soon, so I say, \u201cgo with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Caisi Calandra Hear me out — I love shopping. At any given moment of writing this article, just know I\u2019m probably tempted to turn this into a Confessions of a Shopaholic thing. In the spirit of keeping things Holiday-oriented, I wanted to do a piece on the crazy shopping \u201cholidays\u201d we have going…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}