{"id":715,"date":"2012-08-01T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=715"},"modified":"2012-08-01T08:05:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:05:05","slug":"wednesday-1-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/08\/01\/wednesday-1-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 1 August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:05 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;m always surprised at the price increases when I reorder kit components. For example, one of the components of the biology kits is a quarter-ounce (7.5 g) packet of gelatin. When I was ordering components for 60 biology kits in February, I paid about $19 including shipping for a box of 64 Knox unflavored gelatin packets, or about $0.30 each. Yesterday, I planned to order two boxes, but the cheapest I could find them on offer was $49 per box including shipping, or about $0.77 each.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So instead I&#8217;ll order five pounds (2.2+ kilos, enough for 300 packets) of bulk powdered gelatin for about $30, or $0.10 each. Barbara and I will just make up our own packets. Counting the cost of the gelatin itself, a coin envelope, a label, and labor, those packets will end up costing us about $0.30 each. We try hard to keep the prices of our kits as low as possible, and saving $0.47 on the cost of one small component is significant when you consider the number of components in the kits.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:05 &#8211; I&#8217;m always surprised at the price increases when I reorder kit components. For example, one of the components of the biology kits is a quarter-ounce (7.5 g) packet of gelatin. When I was ordering components for 60 biology kits in February, I paid about $19 including shipping for a box of 64 Knox unflavored gelatin packets, or about $0.30 each. Yesterday, I planned to order two boxes, but the cheapest I could find them on offer was $49 per box including shipping,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/08\/01\/wednesday-1-august-2012\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}