{"id":5112,"date":"2011-03-31T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2011-03-31T03:30:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:30:20","slug":"cheap-vs-frugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/31\/cheap-vs-frugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap vs frugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be busy the next couple of days and might not have much for you. So I thought I&#8217;d throw out a question &#8212; or rather, repeat a <a href=\"http:\/\/beautyandbedlam.com\/cheap-vs-frugal-whats-the-difference\/\" target=\"_blank\">question thrown out some time ago<\/a> at the Balancing Beauty and Bedlam blog (love that name): Cheap vs frugal? Which is which?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an old question, but ever-relevant &#8212; and not just because so many freedomistas are also frugalistas, bent on getting value for their FRNs and avoiding messy money entanglements.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s relevant to me in part because I grew up around somebody who believed himself to be frugal but who was in fact not just cheap but the classic &#8220;penny wise and pound foolish&#8221; &#8212; a person obsessed with price who never developed the slightest concept of value. The financial and emotional repercussions of that mindset can still make my head spin. <\/p>\n<p>I would almost make a general rule: Being frugal helps you be free; being cheap makes you a slave to your own small mind.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, Beauty and Bedlam takes a look at some actions: frugal or cheap &#8212; and how do you tell the difference?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be busy the next couple of days and might not have much for you. So I thought I&#8217;d throw out a question &#8212; or rather, repeat a question thrown out some time ago at the Balancing Beauty and Bedlam blog (love that name): Cheap vs frugal? Which is which? It&#8217;s an old question, but ever-relevant &#8212; and not just because so many freedomistas are also frugalistas, bent on getting value for their FRNs and avoiding messy money entanglements. It&#8217;s relevant to me in part because I grew up around somebody who believed himself to be frugal but&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/31\/cheap-vs-frugal\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheap vs frugal<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-practical-freedom","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}