{"id":279773,"date":"2026-02-08T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/279773\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:25:11","slug":"sinead-ryan-ten-bad-habits-that-could-be-costing-you-money-and-how-to-break-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/279773\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin\u00e9ad Ryan: Ten bad habits that could be costing you money \u2013 and how to break them"},"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\">\nTaking a more \u2018mindful\u2019 approach to spending is a great way to help get your finances back on track\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Contactless payments make it too easy for many of us to spend money, and it can quickly add up. Stock image. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages_1466607636.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)\">Contactless payments make it too easy for many of us to spend money, and it can quickly add up. Stock image. 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)\">At last, with the longest month of the year finally over, the first pay day of 2026 has dropped. And not a moment too soon.<\/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 if half of it has already disappeared into the black hole that was Christmas spending, then that means you will be playing catch-up a little bit longer while your finances recover over the next couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taking a more \u2018mindful\u2019 approach to spending is a great way to help get your finances back on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,16768,266,267,78057],"class_list":{"0":"post-279773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-money-experts","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance","15":"tag-sinead-ryan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}