PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 With Halloween almost here, many families are already thinking about how to manage their holiday budgets as the winter season approaches.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday morning, Charles Dennis and Willow Oelke from Wauna Credit Union joined ARC PDX to talk about practical strategies for staying ahead of holiday spending.<\/p>\n
They discussed why now is a good time for families to start planning, especially for those on a tight budget, and focused on the importance of creating a realistic spending plan before shopping begins.<\/p>\n
Dennis and Oelke pointed out that while gifts are a major part of many holiday plans, hidden expenses like travel, decorations and food can quickly add up if not accounted for. They also shared tips for avoiding impulse spending during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, as well as recommendations for handling the pressure of constant holiday advertising.<\/p>\n
You can watch the full conversation above, where they also suggested creative, debt-free ways to celebrate the holidays that do not sacrifice what makes the season special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 With Halloween almost here, many families are already thinking about how to manage their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":["post-659663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659663","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=659663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}