{"id":187772,"date":"2025-12-12T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187772\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:35:09","slug":"celebrate-christmas-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187772\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Christmas on a budget"},"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\">Your guide to getting the most out of the festive season without draining your bank account\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It's not too late to set a budget for the weeks ahead. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28ac8079-b8d1-4a13-87cc-0dad6d031da9.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&#8217;s not too late to set a budget for the weeks ahead. 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)\">\u2018Tis the season to be jolly, absolutely, but joy is not easily found when the money in your bank account is quickly dwindling. We\u2019ve put together a guide to help, whether you\u2019re hosting this Christmas, wondering how to shop your own wardrobe for something to wear for the office party, or want to ensure your children experience the magic of it all without reaching for your credit card.<\/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)\">Fionnuala Jones, presenter and podcaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your guide to getting the most out of the festive season without draining your bank account It&#8217;s not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9484,72,61,60,41816],"class_list":["post-187772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-christmas","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-saoirse-hanley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187772","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=187772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}