{"id":8138,"date":"2010-08-27T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2010-08-21T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T19:12:57","slug":"frugal-librarian-29-no-docking-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-29-no-docking-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Librarian #29: No Docking Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1897\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sure they give you a sweet deal on a phone when you buy one.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not counting on you being a big-picture person.\u00a0 Over the life of the contract, each one of those little amenities or extra services really add up.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a huge markup, additionally on those accessories, i.e. junky headsets that make you look like a\u00a0pretentious fool or\u00a0schizophrenic in a public place and only\u00a0cost 30 cents to make&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Or in this case, charging dock.\u00a0 Not only does this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/07\/make_projects_-_outlet-mount_device.html\" target=\"_blank\">free one you can make yourself <\/a><\/strong>look sweeter, it stays on the outlet and off the floor\/countertop.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have a shampoo bottle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure they give you a sweet deal on a phone when you buy one.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not counting on you being a big-picture person.\u00a0 Over the life of the contract, each one of those little amenities or extra services really add up.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a huge markup, additionally on those accessories, i.e.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-29-no-docking-fee\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[1320,370,521],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-can-use","category-reference","tag-cell-phones","tag-frugal","tag-frugal-librarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-27g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions\/8143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}