{"id":659,"date":"2014-01-24T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:48:50","slug":"wishing-you-every-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Wishing you every good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we wade into a new year I have a lot of wishes.\u00a0 I would like to finally retire from the sign business.\u00a0 Maybe move to a different local.\u00a0 Start back at the gym.\u00a0 When you are making money you buy stuff.\u00a0 Many of us never really think that someday we will have to get rid of most, if not all of it.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadcabins.com\/Cabin%2010\/index.htm\">Our cabin at Callaway Gardens<\/a> has been wonderful.\u00a0 A place we can go to relax.\u00a0 But when we go there we end up working our tails off cleaning and fixing so that the renters can enjoy it.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have to sell it, but it is just a complication we don&#8217;t need at this stage in our lives.\u00a0 Twenty years ago we bought the 6,000 sq. ft. building that houses SignPrinters.\u00a0 When we had 9 employees we used almost all of it.\u00a0 Now we can run the company in 1\/4 the space.\u00a0 Just a complication.\u00a0 Finally our big house.\u00a0 Who needs a 3,000 sq. ft. house?\u00a0 Five acres of grounds to keep and heating and cooling the house is time consuming and expensive.\u00a0 We could fit nicely in a house half the size.\u00a0 But when we make these purchases we rarely think about getting rid of them, and that is something a few years has brought into focus for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wade into a new year I have a lot of wishes.\u00a0 I would like to finally retire from the sign business.\u00a0 Maybe move to a different local.\u00a0 Start back at the gym.\u00a0 When you are making money you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}