{"id":203433,"date":"2025-11-27T18:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/203433\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:25:17","slug":"what-i-spend-on-christmas-i-usually-spend-around-e150-on-each-of-my-adult-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/203433\/","title":{"rendered":"What I spend on Christmas: \u2018I usually spend around \u20ac150 on each of my adult children\u2019"},"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\">We\u2019re asking people around the country to break down their Christmas spending. Next up is father-of-three James Bourke\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Bourke from Greenhills in Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1ed2ce64-ea7d-4b00-a3ca-3dbe576b74c3.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)\">James Bourke from Greenhills in Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys.<\/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)\">Like everyone else, James Bourke is making preparations for Christmas, shopping for supplies and presents. But, unlike others who swear by a to-do list, he relies on his own intuition to ensure that he gets the best gifts he can for his friends and family.<\/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)\">However, he does have something of a budget, to ensure costs don\u2019t get out of hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re asking people around the country to break down their Christmas spending. Next up is father-of-three James Bourke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[16838,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-203433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115623069512563384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203433","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=203433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}