{"id":937,"date":"2020-11-27T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2020-11-27T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:29:35","slug":"5-black-friday-mistakes-i-made-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/5-black-friday-mistakes-i-made-in-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Black Friday Mistakes I Made in the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-938\" src=\"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/11-27-20-shopping-center-1507250-640x480-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/11-27-20-shopping-center-1507250-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/11-27-20-shopping-center-1507250-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is Black Friday and there are sales on virtually everything. It can be both a fun and stressful experience, and there are some mistakes I made in the past:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Allowing myself to be convinced to wake up at 5:30 AM or was it 4:30 AM?. Waking up early does not bring out my \u201cbest\u201d self.<\/li>\n<li>Not having a plan of which items to purchase or at least having a budget. This relates to shopping the old-fashioned way and online.<\/li>\n<li>Almost getting into a physical confrontation with someone 3 times my size because he thought that I cut in line. I like challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Not enjoying the experience, especially if it wasn\u2019t your idea. Don\u2019t fight over parking spots, run or walk quickly, complain, cut in line, be rude, or put on a frown.<\/li>\n<li>Remember these mistakes for next year!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you like what you just read, then don\u2019t hesitate to forward\/share with your friends and\/or click like!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Make sure to subscribe to our weekly emails to receive practical business, financial and tax strategies! <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.belbolcpa.com\/newsletter-signup.htm?\"><strong>Sign Up Now!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Black Friday and there are sales on virtually everything. It can be both a fun and stressful experience, and there are some mistakes I made in the past: Allowing myself to be convinced to wake up at 5:30 AM or was it 4:30 AM?. Waking up early does not bring out my \u201cbest\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,90,208,7,8,17,138],"tags":[277],"class_list":{"0":"post-937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-budgeting","7":"category-debt","8":"category-economy","9":"category-expenses","10":"category-financial","11":"category-self-development","12":"category-time-management","13":"tag-black-friday","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}