{"id":1225,"date":"2011-07-14T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katrina.effexhost.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/14\/book-review-money-secrets-of-the-amish\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T16:17:00","slug":"book-review-money-secrets-of-the-amish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/14\/book-review-money-secrets-of-the-amish\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Money Secrets of the Amish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe align=\"left\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=life08d-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=bpl&amp;asins=159555341X&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;\"><\/iframe>Hi all! I&#8217;m back with another book review and honestly, this is the first one that I just want to tell y&#8217;all to go out and buy. I devoured this book for so many reasons. The first is probably pretty obvious. Our little family is perpetually broke and learning how to save a few more dollars certainly can&#8217;t hurt. The second is that, in my mind, the Amish are the epitome of Simple. Simple is my goal for this year. I&#8217;m working on simplifying our lives in a lot of ways and I was sure that this book could help me on the path to that.<\/p>\n<p>Did it? Yes and No. There wasn&#8217;t anything in this book that I found to be mind blowing. To me, it was all common and good sense advice. That being said, I&#8217;ve always been on the frugal side of nature. I&#8217;m also one of those &#8220;green freaks.&#8221; What this book did for me was to bring me back to that. My kiddos and I have been becoming more and more I want it now mixed with oooh shiney! That&#8217;s not what I want for us as a family. It&#8217;s not what I want for myself. This book reminded me of those basic feelings and beliefs. I&#8217;m now implementing some of those things into our lives.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly cannot recommend this book enough. It&#8217;s a nice and easy read. It&#8217;s filled with some really great basic advice and real life applications. Plus, it doesn&#8217;t hurt that the author is a local girl who probably lives maybe an hour from me. I have to tell you that I would love to go garage saling with her! I think she would be a total hoot. &nbsp;Did I mention that she has a <a href=\"http:\/\/lorileecraker.com\/\">blog<\/a> that I totally intend on <strike>stalking<\/strike>&nbsp;visiting on a regular basis?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s227.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd163\/kroets\/?action=view&amp;current=Name2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photobucket\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i227.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd163\/kroets\/Name2.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>I received a copy of this book via the BookSneeze program. All thoughts, comments and opinions are totally mine because we all know that no one puts Baby&#8230;no wait, no one tells this girl what to think. Oh and that image up there probably technically belongs to Amazon but if you click it, it leads to one awesome book that I think you should buy.<\/i><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><br \/>\nIf you like what you&#8217;ve read here, please share it with others using these buttons:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all! I&#8217;m back with another book review and honestly, this is the first one that I just want to tell y&#8217;all to go out and buy. I devoured this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}