{"id":58986,"date":"2017-06-07T16:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/?p=58986"},"modified":"2017-06-07T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:30:55","slug":"the-book-that-pays-for-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/the-book-that-pays-for-itself","title":{"rendered":"The Book That Pays For Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58990\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/the-book-that-pays-for-itself\/playbook-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/playbook-1-e1496867264117.png?fit=150%2C162&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,162\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"playbook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/playbook-1-e1496867264117.png?fit=150%2C162&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/playbook-1-e1496867264117.png?fit=150%2C162&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58990\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/playbook-1-e1496867264117.png?resize=150%2C162&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/donnafreedman.com\/\">Donna Freedman<\/a><\/strong> is a respected\u00a0author and savings expert because she has been there herself. \u00a0 \u00a0She has learned how to stretch a penny in every category of spending out of necessity, and has written books and articles to help others do the same. \u00a0She just finished her second book <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/donnafreedman.com\/playbook-tough-times-vol-2\/\">Your Playbook for Tough Times Vol. 2&#8243;<\/a><\/strong> with\u00a0practical strategies for saving money, living better, reducing\u00a0stress and even how to have FUN on a limited budget.<\/p>\n<p>This book is designed to help people live their best lives on the money they have. That means getting some \u2013 or maybe all \u2013 of what they want in addition to everyday essentials.<\/p>\n<p>It offers solid, actionable advice, resources and encouragement. Readers will take away specific tactics to slash the cost of things like food, education, insurance, home repair, birthdays, transportation, weddings, pet care, decorating, holidays and even funerals.<\/p>\n<p>Also like its predecessor, the new \u201cPlaybook\u201d is designed to help three groups of people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those already in tough times (job loss, illness, et al.)<\/li>\n<li>Those anticipating tough times (e.g., layoffs in the industry or the company)<\/li>\n<li>Those who want to live lean to realize a dream such as entrepreneurship, at-home parenthood, early retirement or homeownership (your dreams may vary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/donnafreedman.com\/playbook-tough-times-vol-2\/\">Volume 1<\/a><\/strong>, it&#8217;s available too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Freedman is a respected\u00a0author and savings expert because she has been there herself. \u00a0 \u00a0She has learned how to stretch a penny in every category of spending out of necessity, and has written books and articles to help others do the same. \u00a0She just finished her second book &#8220;Your Playbook for Tough Times Vol. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/playbook.png?fit=268%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8FFMs-flo","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58986"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58993,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58986\/revisions\/58993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.couponmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}