{"id":963632,"date":"2026-11-09T02:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/963632\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T02:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:10:09","slug":"why-nows-not-the-time-to-put-your-feet-up-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/963632\/","title":{"rendered":"Why now&#8217;s not the time to put your feet up before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">How soon is too soon when it comes to thinking about Christmas and your finances?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The answer, of course, is that it is never too soon. Save early and the cost becomes more manageable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The squeeze is harder for some than others, with charity Barnardo&#8217;s warning that some parents will skip meals so their kids get a Christmas dinner with the trimmings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, debt advice charity StepChange is offering tips to everyone, to avoid Christmas spending leading to a financially painful new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How soon is too soon when it comes to thinking about Christmas and your finances? The answer, of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-963632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}