{"id":647799,"date":"2010-01-29T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001347"},"modified":"2010-01-29T02:44:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T07:44:18","slug":"these-fake-plastic-pennies-cost-only-4-5-cents-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/647799","title":{"rendered":"These Fake Plastic Pennies Cost Only 4.5 Cents Each"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/penny_saved-thumb-240x160-36464.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never too early to teach your kids about financial responsibility. That&#8217;s why play money is a fun idea. What we find fiscally suspect, however, are plastic pennies from Learning Resources.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningresources.com\/product\/teachers\/shop+by+category\/manipulatives\/math\/time+-+money\/play+money+in+bulk-+pennies.do?search=basic&#038;keyword=pennies&#038;sortby=bestSellers&#038;page=1&#038;\">100 plastic pennies<\/a> for the low, low price of $4.50. Yes, that&#8217;s four cents per penny, and even more than the U.S. Mint pays <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2008\/02\/it-costs-134-million-to-make-80-million-in-pennies.html\">to make real pennies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You buy this toy to teach your kids the value of money, and pay four times the going rate for pennies,&#8221; mused our tipster Mark. To be fair, other play coin denominations cost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningresources.com\/product\/teachers\/shop+by+category\/manipulatives\/math\/time+-+money\/play+money+in+bulk-+quarters.do?search=basic&#038;keyword=quarters&#038;sortby=bestSellers&#038;page=1&#038;\">about the same<\/a>, but it&#8217;s still cheaper in the end to give your kids real pennies. Go with toy twenties and hundreds to stock your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningresources.com\/product\/teachers\/shop+by+category\/manipulatives\/math\/time+-+money\/giant+classroom+money+kit.do?search=basic&#038;keyword=pennies&#038;sortby=bestSellers&#038;page=1&#038;\">pretend cash drawer<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningresources.com\/category\/teachers\/shop+by+theme\/shopping\/money+skills.do\">Money Skills<\/a> [Learning Resources] <em>(Thanks, Mark!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s never too early to teach your kids about financial responsibility. That&#8217;s why play money is a fun idea. What we find fiscally suspect, however, are plastic pennies from Learning Resources. 100 plastic pennies for the low, low price of $4.50. Yes, that&#8217;s four cents per penny, and even more than the U.S. Mint pays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-647799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Iwn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647799","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\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}