{"id":143880,"date":"2025-11-20T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143880\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:56:10","slug":"clare-financial-expert-advises-avoiding-credit-card-if-possible-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/143880\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Financial Expert Advises Avoiding Credit Card If Possible This Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Clare financial expert is advising consumers to avoid using their credit card if possible this festive season.<\/p>\n<p>The average Irish household is expected to spend over \u20ac1,600 more in the month of December this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to KPMG, 40% of consumers are aiming to spend less on Christmas than the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Corbett of Carey Corbett Financial Solutions in Ennis says it\u2019s important to be cautious about the manner of spending.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Clare financial expert is advising consumers to avoid using their credit card if possible this festive season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-143880","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-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}