{"id":188,"date":"2009-03-02T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/188"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:48:29","slug":"talkback-would-you-adopt-the-compact-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/188","title":{"rendered":"Talkback: Would you adopt the Compact lifestyle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing in response to the article on 18 September 2007 entitled &lsquo;Green Days&rsquo;.<br \/>&nbsp;My mum has always taught me to be prudent since I was a child, so I seldom waste food or buy things that are not worth buying.&nbsp; For me, maintaining a frugal lifestyle is not a difficult task at all.&nbsp; I am confident about adopting the Compact lifestyle.<br \/>&nbsp;I am a typical girl who loves shopping.&nbsp; But most of the time I would just window-shop unless I have got target goods beforehand.&nbsp; I enjoy strolling in shopping malls and gazing at those wonderful commodities silently.&nbsp; I prefer this kind of shopping rather than purchasing everything I love, especially those that are beautiful but expensive and without any actual use.<br \/>&nbsp;The news article mentioned saving a gorilla when one decided not to buy a new phone.&nbsp; If this were the case, I would have saved four gorillas and soon I would save the fifth one.&nbsp; I once felt quite self-conscious about using such an outdated mobile phone while the people around me are having the latest models.&nbsp; But soon I realized that there is no big deal.&nbsp; Rather, I think it is not cool, but wasteful to buy the same type of new goods while the old ones are still fine.&nbsp; I cannot find any reasons supporting this behaviour indeed.<br \/>&nbsp;Undoubtedly, there are far more examples that people spend money like water.&nbsp; I do not mean we cannot spend on our daily needs.&nbsp; Instead, we should think twice and use money in a cleverer and more economical way, which can help us to progress towards a Compact life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am writing in response to the article on 18 September 2007 entitled &lsquo;Green Days&rsquo;.My mum has always taught me to be prudent since I was a child, so I seldom waste food or buy things that are not worth buying. For me, maintaining a frugal lifestyle is not a difficult task at all. I am confident about.........<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/188\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-7"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}