{"id":2124,"date":"2012-12-26T21:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:28:37","slug":"spend-%c2%a2-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/2124","title":{"rendered":"Spend \u00c2\u00a2 to save $"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first ran across this nifty idea on <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5943071\/keep-your-charger-cables-from-fraying-with-an-old-pen\">Lifehacker<\/a> though the original is from <a href=\"http:\/\/snapguide.com\/guides\/protect-your-charger-from-bending\/\">Snapguide<\/a>. I recently had to throw away a MagSafe charger due to a crimped connector. The idea is simple, which some of the best ideas tend to be.<\/p>\n<p>In short:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Find an old spring-loaded ballpoint pen.<\/li>\n<li>Remove spring.<\/li>\n<li>Wrap around the end of your charging cable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;ve already done it for my work computer and am happy with the result. My only challenge is to find a dead or dying pen to harvest another spring from for some home laptops. I just can&#8217;t bring myself to destroy a sufficiently-working pen; call me cheap, eh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/d74bwl3dcueqd.cloudfront.net\/images\/guide\/c22bd691f9434fc29744a10cc80a7a46\/580x296_ac.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first ran across this nifty idea on Lifehacker though the original is from Snapguide. I recently had to throw away a MagSafe charger due to a crimped connector. The idea is simple, which some of the best ideas tend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/2124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek","category-macintosh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-yg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}