{"id":654762,"date":"2010-02-04T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001455"},"modified":"2010-02-04T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:04:57","slug":"nine-things-that-are-overpriced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654762","title":{"rendered":"Nine Things That Are Overpriced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/020410-001-money-thumb-300x201-36653.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>CNN Money has put together a slideshow (ugh) of nine of <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/galleries\/2010\/news\/1001\/gallery.americas_biggest_ripoffs\/index.html\">&#8220;America&#8217;s biggest rip-offs,&#8221;<\/a> and I think we&#8217;ve covered all of them at one point or another on Consumerist. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for easy ways to plug leaks in your budget, consider these tips: don&#8217;t send text messages, skip the movie concession stand, buy generic OTC painkillers, don&#8217;t buy wine at the restaurant, don&#8217;t pay for &#8220;super&#8221; gas, and avoid the mini bar and movie rentals at hotels. Oh, and for the love of money, stay away from freecreditreport.com&#8211;the only legitimately free service is offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annualcreditreport.com\">annualcreditreport.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The one other category CNN Money mentions is textbooks, but since they&#8217;re unavoidable for students your best bet is to <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;limit=20&#038;search=textbooks\">look for the cheapest solutions<\/a>, and also petition your professor or school to provide more affordable alternatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/galleries\/2010\/news\/1001\/gallery.americas_biggest_ripoffs\/index.html\">&#8220;America&#8217;s Biggest Rip-offs&#8221;<\/a> [CNN Money] <i>(Thanks to JonStewartMill!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Money has put together a slideshow (ugh) of nine of &#8220;America&#8217;s biggest rip-offs,&#8221; and I think we&#8217;ve covered all of them at one point or another on Consumerist. If you&#8217;re looking for easy ways to plug leaks in your budget, consider these tips: don&#8217;t send text messages, skip the movie concession stand, buy generic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-654762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KkG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654762","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\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}