{"id":149706,"date":"2025-11-20T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149706\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:09:09","slug":"what-i-spend-on-christmas-we-have-21-gifts-to-buy-i-estimate-well-spend-around-e3000-on-overall-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149706\/","title":{"rendered":"What I spend on Christmas: \u2018We have 21 gifts to buy\u2026 I estimate we\u2019ll spend around \u20ac3,000 on overall shopping\u2019"},"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\">We\u2019re asking people around the country to break down their Christmas spending. First up is artist and interior designer Lana Dullaghan\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lana Dullaghan tracks her spending at Christmas to make sure she doesn't go over budget\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c5244747-b76d-471e-af70-5f1765efa6b7.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)\">Lana Dullaghan tracks her spending at Christmas to make sure she doesn&#8217;t go over budget<\/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)\">It\u2019s that time of year again when purse strings will be loosened and budgets will be stretched as households up and down the country splash out on gifts for loved ones as well as treats for themselves.<\/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)\">But although Christmas only comes once a year, it can be expensive and all those little extras do add up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re asking people around the country to break down their Christmas spending. First up is artist and interior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9484,72,61,60],"class_list":["post-149706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-christmas","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149706","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=149706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}