{"id":4316,"date":"2010-10-05T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2011-10-01T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T12:57:07","slug":"text-google-directory-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/text-google-directory-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Google for directory assistance information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be pretty regular user of directory assistance from my cellular phone.<\/p>\n<p>(I know, I know&#8230; I can almost hear all you frugal bloggers out there gasping.)<\/p>\n<p>But now I am a changed woman.<\/p>\n<p>I have finally put into practice something that the twenty-something girl at the cell-phone store taught me long before I became an avid texter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead of calling directory assistance, she told me to text Google (466453) with the business name and a nearby city or zip code to find a phone number or other contact information. <\/strong>In about a second, Google texts back with several of the nearest listings with the address and phone number hot-linked, ready to\u00a0 make a call with a touch.<\/p>\n<p>Super-fast, super-cheap (comparatively) and super-easy. Totally <a href=\"http:\/\/wearethatfamily.com\/2010\/10\/wfmw-entertaining-even-when-youre-reluctant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Works for Me<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I now list Google as one of my contacts to make it even easier.<\/p>\n<p>Cha- Ching!<\/p>\n<p>Check out more money-saving tips at <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasmom.com\/2010\/10\/saving-my-milk-money-frugal-friday.html\" target=\"_blank\">Life as Mom&#8217;s Frugal Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But first&#8230;How do you text to make life easier?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be pretty regular user of directory assistance from my cellular phone. (I know, I know&#8230; I can almost hear all you frugal bloggers out there gasping.) But now I am a changed woman. I have finally put into practice something that the twenty-something girl at the cell-phone store taught me long before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}