{"id":89536,"date":"2024-12-11T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=89536"},"modified":"2024-12-11T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T09:28:41","slug":"after-this-situation-my-life-split-into-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/after-this-situation-my-life-split-into-before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"After this situation, my life split into \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id='\"post-129662\"' class='\"post-129662' post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-moral-stories category-news>\n<div class='\"td-post-content' td-pb-padding-side>\n<p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-89537 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/12%5C/432984366_803960558421630_8634308632443097345_n.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"843\"' height='\"830\"' title='\"\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/432984366_803960558421630_8634308632443097345_n.jpg' https: sizes='\"auto,'>\n</p><p>u\/deleted user: My grandfather was the world\u2019s most cheap person. I got a $30 gift card from him after he d!ed. For some reason, I chose to use it instead of giving it away.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-13>\n<p>There was a time in my life before and after that event. When I gave the checker the card, her face turned pale.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-1>\n<p><strong>Cashier:\u00a0That\u2019s not possible, where did you get that?\n<p><strong>Me:\u00a0Uh\u2026 My grandfather owned it.\n<div class='\"code-block' code-block-9>\n<div data-cptid='\"1539520_timelesslife.info_300x250_Carpet\"'>\n\n<p><strong>Cashier:\u00a0\u201dSTOP EVERYONE!\u201d. IN FRONT OF US is the winner of our store\u2019s secret contest that has been going on for ten years!\n<p>The cashier was very excited to tell the customer that the gift card was a special promotional item that had a million-dollar prize that had been unused for years.\n</p><p>I stood there stunned as the store manager came over to confirm what I already knew to be true. My grandpa\u2019s \u201cstingy\u201d gift turned into a fortune that changed my whole life and my future in an instant.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-8>\n<p>&nbsp;\n</p><div>\n<p>&nbsp;\n\n</p><h2><strong>What can be learned from the story:\n<p>Being a cheapskate means you like to make every dollar count. But sometimes it\u2019s nice to spend your hard-earned money on the people you love. It doesn\u2019t mean you spend a lot of money. You can show them you care by giving them a treat or the nice gift they\u2019ve always wanted.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-2>\n<div class='\"code-block' code-block-11>\n\n<footer>\n<div class='\"td-post-source-tags' td-pb-padding-side>\n<div class='\"td-post-sharing-bottom' td-pb-padding-side>\n\n\n<div class='\"td_block_wrap' td_block_related_posts tdi_3 td_with_ajax_pagination td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 data-td-block-uid='\"tdi_3\"'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>u\/deleted user: My grandfather was the world\u2019s most cheap person. I got a $30 gift card from him after he d!ed. For some reason, I chose to use it instead of giving it away. There was a time in my life before and after that event. When I gave the checker the card, her face &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89539,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89536\/revisions\/89539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></div></div></div></footer></div></div></strong></h2></div></div></strong></p></div></div></strong></p></strong></p></div></div></div></article>