{"id":98544,"date":"2025-08-26T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98544\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:10:08","slug":"no-spend-september-30-ways-to-cut-your-non-essential-spending-in-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98544\/","title":{"rendered":"No-spend September: 30 ways to cut your non-essential spending in 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Reimagining your spending and saving habits doesn\u2019t have to be boring, and can set you up financially for the coming autumn and winter months\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The \u2018nospendseptember\u2019 challenge involves only spending money on necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, groceries, utility bills, and fuel for your car throughout the month. Photo: Getty.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c83c5020-7751-40fa-959c-78e3534ae18c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The \u2018nospendseptember\u2019 challenge involves only spending money on necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, groceries, utility bills, and fuel for your car throughout the month. Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">No-spend challenges, which encourage people to go on a spending fast by abstaining from buying anything but the bare essentials, have been de rigueur on social media in recent years. But on TikTok, September has emerged as an especially popular month to embark on this personal finance trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pursuing the \u201cnospendseptember\u201d challenge \u2013 which involves only spending money on necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, groceries, utility bills, and fuel for your car throughout the month \u2013 makes sense. After all, much of the back-to-school expenses have already been incurred, the carefree holiday spending is behind you, and you still have financial breathing space before expenses start to rack up due to winter energy bills and Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reimagining your spending and saving habits doesn\u2019t have to be boring, and can set you up financially for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,57272,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-98544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-gabrielle-monaghan","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98544","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=98544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}