It’s never too late to get your finances ready for the festive season
Christmas is one of the most expensive times of the year: In 2022, consumers in Ireland planned to spend an average of €1,200 on shopping.
For starters, it could help spread out costs rather than getting to December, panicking, putting it all on the credit card and waking up in the new year with a debt hangover. Coming up with €1,000-plus at once in December is a lot of pressure but if we borrow some of that smug “there’s nine weekends to go until Christmas” energy, suddenly we have more breathing space to reach that goal.
“This year has been a tight year for everybody so people might not have extra money to put into a sinking fund for Christmas,” she says. But as Gaynor says, “it’s not even Halloween” which means people do have the opportunity to start “putting money aside every pay ”. It’s easy to let it get on top of us and dictate our spending. Added with a sense of social obligation we find ourselves buying expensive things we’re not sure people will even like because we want them to know we care. Or worse buying things for people because we know they’re buying for us and we don’t want to be talked about.
“We think we have to buy for other people but the way things are at the moment, if you say to friends I’m not buying presents this year in advance, they might actually be very relieved.” “You can spend a bit more on someone than you would normally so instead of spending a tenner for each person you might decide on giving one €50 present,” explains Mooney.
In some cases, prices have either been increased before the discount or the item has been brought in specifically for the sale and has never been sold at the “before” price so that bargain shoppers think they’re getting isn’t one at all.
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