{"id":14175,"date":"2014-12-22T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2014-12-22T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:14:11","slug":"money-saving-monday-december-22","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/money-saving-monday-december-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Saving Monday: December 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Money-roll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13159\" alt=\"Money roll\" src=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Money-roll-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Money-roll-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Money-roll.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The countdown is on until Christmas, so hopefully you\u2019re nearing the end of your shopping list and checking off every to-do item. Not quite? Not to worry, we rounded up the best last minute shopping and entertaining advice to keep you (and your wallet) happy and relaxed this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/holiday-shopping-10-last-minute-money-saving-tips\/\">10 last-minute money-saving tips for the rest of your holiday shopping<\/a>, from CBS MoneyWatch.<\/p>\n<p>NECN counts down to the holidays with advice for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necn.com\/news\/new-england\/Holiday-Countdown-Entertaining-on-a-Budget-285939031.html\">entertaining on a budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.usnews.com\/money\/the-frugal-shopper\/2014\/12\/11\/how-to-host-a-frugal-and-festive-holiday-party\">Festival holiday parties can also be frugal<\/a> \u2013 read our own CEO\u2019s tips on US News Money.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget about this way to cut costs; these are <a href=\"http:\/\/patch.com\/new-hampshire\/hampton-northhampton\/six-easy-ways-save-energy-holiday-season\">six easy ways to save energy this holiday season<\/a>, via Patch.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, ABC News has tips to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/video\/find-save-money-final-holiday-27761838\">save money on all your final holiday needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxbrackets.org\/images-of-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Image credited to TaxBrackets.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/money-saving-monday-december-22\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"excerptimage alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>The countdown is on until Christmas, so hopefully you\u2019re nearing the end of your shopping list and checking off every to-do item. Not quite? Not to worry, we rounded up ... <a title=\"Money Saving Monday: December 22\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/money-saving-monday-december-22\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Money Saving Monday: December 22<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2222],"tags":[262,2340,839,2046,2060,1263,2065],"class_list":["post-14175","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-articles","category-holiday-shopping-2","tag-budget","tag-entertaining","tag-holiday-shopping","tag-last-minute","tag-money-saving-monday","tag-personal-finance","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}