{"id":1040,"date":"2007-10-07T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/10\/07\/i-almost-went-broke\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T17:23:53","slug":"i-almost-went-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/10\/07\/i-almost-went-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"I almost went broke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Bowling for Soup, I almost picked up several games at Circuit City last night.<\/p>\n<p>Madden 2008 for the Wii would be a great Christmas present for the kids, plus it was $12 off.\u00a0 I decided not to pick it up yet, because we need to plan a little better \u2013 Santa, two sets of grandparents, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Madden 2008 for the PSP, which should be new and improved over last year; also on sale for $12 off.\u00a0 I decided not to get it because I did not play the 2007 version enough (sold it a while back), and I have just not been in much of a PSP mood.<\/p>\n<p>DiRT for the PS3; because every console needs a good rally game.\u00a0 In the end, I decided to wait to see if I could find it a little cheaper \u2013 $60 is a lot for an impulse purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Heavenly Sword was also in hand, but how could I start something new when I have not finished Oblivion or Resistance.\u00a0 Besides, there was that $60 impulse purchase thing again.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about one of the new NBA titles, but I have read mixed reviews on all.\u00a0 Which one is really the best?\u00a0 Since when did I actually like the NBA again?\u00a0 Probably a horrible purchase without waiting for a sale.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I did not pick up anything.\u00a0 I almost spent a couple of hundred dollars, but figured I was better off standing pat and enjoying what I already had in my library.\u00a0 Of course all this almost buying prompted me to throw up a few older games on eBay to build a spending cache to help justify my next trip to Circuit City.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Bowling for Soup, I almost picked up several games at Circuit City last night. Madden 2008 for the Wii would be a great Christmas present for the kids, plus it was $12 off.\u00a0 I decided not to pick it up yet, because we need to plan a little better \u2013 Santa, two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/10\/07\/i-almost-went-broke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I almost went broke.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}