{"id":706552,"date":"2010-04-01T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:57:11","slug":"7-ways-to-tell-your-neighbors-are-running-on-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706552","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways To Tell Your Neighbors Are Running On Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/lawn-thumb-158x105-38804.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Writing on LiveCheap, Karl Wolf put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livecheap.com\/credit\/credit-cards\/301-7-telltale-signs-that-your-neighbors-are-broke\">a sad-but-funny list of signs<\/a> that reveal the poverty of those who live near you.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of the telltale indicators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>5 Pounds of Mail, Every Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take a minute and watch your neighbor grab his or her mail one day. If they come away with stacks of paper and it&#8217;s not the holidays, you&#8217;ll know something is up. Miss a few mortgage postalpayments or property taxes and everyone and their cousin starts to flood your mailbox and they&#8217;re not sending you love letters. And if your neighbors are late making payments on their credit card bills, they&#8217;ll get notices piled high. If you see the Joneses with wheel barrow or duffel bag each day to grab their mail, it&#8217;s a sure sign that there&#8217;s no love lost between them and their creditors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landscape Me Not:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spring time usually ushers in the new round of flowers, plants, and typical landscaping improvements. But if your neighbor&#8217;s yard doesn&#8217;t change a bit after years of top of the line grooming, it might be because the credit cards are maxed out and the checking account is more than a little light this year. Lots of people are skipping landscaping in this the third real year of the Great Recession.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice any of these giveaways and you know some neighborly financial kindness might be in order. Do you have any other signs to add? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livecheap.com\/credit\/credit-cards\/301-7-telltale-signs-that-your-neighbors-are-broke\">7 Telltale Signs That Your Neighbors Are Broke<\/a> [LiveCheap]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing on LiveCheap, Karl Wolf put together a sad-but-funny list of signs that reveal the poverty of those who live near you. Here are a couple of the telltale indicators: 5 Pounds of Mail, Every Day Take a minute and watch your neighbor grab his or her mail one day. If they come away with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XO0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807969,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706552\/revisions\/807969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}