{"id":568903,"date":"2026-07-26T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568903\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:25:34","slug":"do-you-budget-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568903\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you budget? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FINANCE MINISTER SIMON Harris today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/ireland-financial-literacy-ambassadors-7113038-Jul2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the appointment of two financial literacy ambassadors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their role is to communicate messages around financial literacy and \u201cempower\u201d the Irish public to take control over their finances.<\/p>\n<p>Harris flagged literacy around investments, while junior minister Marian Harkin said for students,\u00a0\u201cunderstanding how to manage money, budget, save and make informed financial decisions is more important than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So today we\u2019re asking you: Do you budget?<\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t budget, but I keep on top of everything (1694)<\/p>\n<p>Meticulously, I keep track of all my spending and allocate funds to different things (1365)<\/p>\n<p>I budget for my rent\/mortgage and bills, but that&#8217;s it (936)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t budget or save at all (324)<\/p>\n<p>Only when I know I have variable expenses coming up (185)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FINANCE MINISTER SIMON Harris today announced the appointment of two financial literacy ambassadors. Their role is to communicate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7513,72,6761,176,13282,61,60,174,175,3865,70,3867],"class_list":["post-568903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-budgeting","tag-business","tag-daily-poll","tag-finance","tag-financial-literacy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-poll","tag-simon-harris","tag-your-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568903","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=568903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}