{"id":142972,"date":"2025-11-16T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142972\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:21:10","slug":"how-to-enjoy-a-debt-free-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142972\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enjoy a debt-free Christmas"},"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\">\nLast year, consumers expected to spend \u20ac1,177 on festive spending, and one in five got into debt\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It\u2019s easy for spending to get out of control at Christmas. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4006709e-19c5-4215-9115-2b787c5100cc.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)\">It\u2019s easy for spending to get out of control at Christmas. 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)\">Mariah Carey has been defrosted, Christmas lights have been switched on in parts of the country, and the supermarket shelves have already replaced the Halloween pumpkins with tins of Afternoon Tea.<\/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)\">We\u2019ve only entered the third week of November \u2013 yet for consumers struggling with the cost of living, the ever-lengthening consumer-fest that is the run-up to Christmas is a stark reminder of the financial challenges we all face in what\u2019s shaping up to be the most expensive Christmas in many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, consumers expected to spend \u20ac1,177 on festive spending, and one in five got into debt It\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9484,72,943,25745,6188,61,60],"class_list":["post-142972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-christmas","tag-business","tag-cost-of-living","tag-credit-unions","tag-gabrielle-monaghan","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}