{"id":1771,"date":"2025-08-16T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/1771\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:41:08","slug":"no-takeaways-fancy-smoothies-or-buying-stuff-online-budgeting-mums-share-top-saving-tips-to-beat-cost-of-living-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/1771\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No takeaways, fancy smoothies or buying stuff online\u2019 \u2013 budgeting mums share top saving tips to beat cost-of-living crisis"},"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\">Household savings experts explain how to save a packet on your bills and day-to-day spending\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caz Mooney. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/082e1f15-d4ec-41a7-a62f-7e1a67568501.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)\">Caz Mooney. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">A mother of three who saved \u20ac15,000 towards a deposit for a house in just a year has shared her strict budgeting rules for families struggling to cope with rising bills.<\/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)\">Five years ago, Caz Mooney (36) stumbled into what is now her full-time job and business \u2013 her social media channels on Instagram and TikTok, called @irishbudgeting. She has also written a book and shares tips on saving, amassing more than 240,000 followers on Instagram and about 67,000 on TikTok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Household savings experts explain how to save a packet on your bills and day-to-day spending Caz Mooney. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2189,79,2190,18,19,17,2188,234,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-1771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-aldi","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-laura-lynott","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}