{"id":1068,"date":"2008-08-23T00:15:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T08:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2008-08-23T00:15:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T08:15:49","slug":"i-saved-1700-by-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/i-saved-1700-by-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"I Saved $1,700 by Shopping!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/green-marni-bag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1069\" title=\"green-marni-bag\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/green-marni-bag-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/green-marni-bag.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/green-marni-bag.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/my-green-bag-on-commode.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1070\" title=\"my-green-bag-on-commode\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/my-green-bag-on-commode-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/my-green-bag-on-commode.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/var\/www\/vhosts\/godammit.com\/httpdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/my-green-bag-on-commode.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/var\/www\/vhosts\/godammit.com\/httpdocs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/my-green-bag-on-commode.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine how thrilled I was to see the metallic green Marni bag on the left for $1,815 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-a-porter.com\/product\/33947\" target=\"_blank\">net-a-porter<\/a>! It reminded me of my metallic green <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notrational.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Not Rational<\/a> handbag that I got on sale for $75, because no one was stupid enough to pay the original price of $550. I bought it at a swanky store called Traffic. I think I squealed something like &#8220;Oh god, what an offensive color!&#8221;&nbsp;\u00a0 I meant it in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>After I paid for it, the sales assistant offered to keep an eye out for other offensive bags. I said &#8220;Sure,&#8221; because it was easier than explaining the difference between Good Offensive and regular offensive.<\/p>\n<p>I have never used this bag, which normally hangs from my tailor&#8217;s dummy when it isn&#8217;t posing gracefully on the commode. On its other side it has two pockets with snaps. It is incredibly soft. I don&#8217;t expect to put it into play.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever saved a lot of money by shopping for something you will never wear, let&#8217;s hear about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine how thrilled I was to see the metallic green Marni bag on the left for $1,815 at net-a-porter! It reminded me of my metallic green Not Rational handbag that I got on sale for $75, because no one was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/i-saved-1700-by-shopping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[62,257],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-he","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}