{"id":99243,"date":"2025-01-13T23:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/im-a-middle-class-mother-of-4-i-start-a-holiday-budget-early-and-do-a-lot-of-research-before-buying-presents-14\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T23:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:27:23","slug":"im-a-middle-class-mother-of-4-i-start-a-holiday-budget-early-and-do-a-lot-of-research-before-buying-presents-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/im-a-middle-class-mother-of-4-i-start-a-holiday-budget-early-and-do-a-lot-of-research-before-buying-presents-14\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a middle-class mother of 4. I start a holiday budget early and do a lot of research before buying presents."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author (not pictured) makes a budget ahead of time when shopping for her kids.Daniel Balakov\/Getty Images<br \/>\nMy first Christmas as a mom, I spent $150 on gifts for our almost 1-year-old. <a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/make-holiday-magic-as-middle-class-mom-of-four-2024-12' target='_blank'>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author (not pictured) makes a budget ahead of time when shopping for her kids.Daniel Balakov\/Getty Images My first Christmas as a mom, I spent $150 on gifts for our almost 1-year-old. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":99244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_id":["99244"],"_thumbnail_ext_url":["https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6740e756ede4eeae39291df2?width=1200&format=jpeg"],"post_views_count":["35"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paydonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/news-250x250-1-891.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99245,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99243\/revisions\/99245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}