{"id":275397,"date":"2026-01-09T05:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275397\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:16:06","slug":"23-practical-frugal-tips-people-are-embracing-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/275397\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Practical Frugal Tips People Are Embracing For 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      8.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;I&#8217;m lowering my monthly budget for eating out, and that means I&#8217;ll probably have to monitor my spending weekly. It&#8217;s not a huge drop because eating out is one of my very few splurges, but as such, it&#8217;s one of the only categories of spending I can bring down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My spouse and I are trying to do weekly meal prep, seeing it as an opportunity to spend time cooking together and take away the daily decision-making.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Frugal\/comments\/1q0iq0f\/comment\/nwy7yn3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Academic-Pangolin883<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8. &#8220;I&#8217;m lowering my monthly budget for eating out, and that means I&#8217;ll probably have to monitor my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2370,79,18,4152,19,17,3521,234,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-275397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-bestofinternet-reddit","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-evergreen","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115863445989874264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275397","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=275397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}