{"id":340846,"date":"2025-12-29T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340846\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:12:11","slug":"nine-money-lessons-i-learned-this-year-from-family-finances-and-debt-to-freebies-and-frugality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340846\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine money lessons I learned this year: from family finances and debt to freebies and frugality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saoirse Hanley is reflecting on the lessons learned as a money writer this year. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/112815755.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)\">Saoirse Hanley is reflecting on the lessons learned as a money writer this year. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">When I started writing for the Money section earlier this year, a few people I told seemed surprised. Evidently, I was not thought of as a very money-savvy person, and that\u2019s fair \u2013 I don\u2019t think I came across as one.<\/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)\">And while I\u2019m no financial fool, working on money stories and keeping up with the different perspectives that Indo Money publishes has still been enlightening. These are the nine money lessons I learned this year that I\u2019ll be taking with me into 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saoirse Hanley is reflecting on the lessons learned as a money writer this year. Photo: Frank McGrath When&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,49889,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-340846","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-personal-finance","11":"tag-personalfinance","12":"tag-saoirse-hanley","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}