{"id":7270,"date":"2026-09-06T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/what-a-dumb-product\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:55:04","slug":"what-a-dumb-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/what-a-dumb-product\/","title":{"rendered":"What a dumb product"},"content":{"rendered":"

That $405 planner lady… The issue is not that she’s selling an overpriced leather planner cover. It’s that she chose<\/em> to have it be a non-standard 4-ring planner.<\/p>\n

If it was a standard 6-ring, someone could buy the planner for themself or as a gift, and that would be a planner to last a lifetime. When her store goes out of business, people could have gone to the regular store and bought refills for it, but as it is?<\/p>\n

Where the hell are you going to get 4-hole planner paper from? Seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That $405 planner lady… The issue is not that she’s selling an overpriced leather planner cover. It’s that she chose to have it be a non-standard 4-ring planner. If it was a standard 6-ring, someone could buy the planner for themself or as a gift, and that would be a planner to last a lifetime.…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> What a dumb product<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","Layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-7270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Tg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/new-planner-fever\/","url_meta":{"origin":7270,"position":0},"title":"New planner fever","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"June 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of scheduling conflicts that *almost* drove me insane-r","rel":"","context":"In "Real Life"","block_context":{"text":"Real Life","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/real-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6723,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/3-ring-binders\/","url_meta":{"origin":7270,"position":1},"title":"3-Ring binders","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I got this => Amazon ADLINK: https:\/\/amzn.to\/4clLeNv <= binder, and I like it but it's not what I thought. 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