{"id":195410,"date":"2025-04-04T23:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-could-you-be-saving-too-much\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T23:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:02:51","slug":"kenya-could-you-be-saving-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-could-you-be-saving-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Could You Be Saving Too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">APRIL 4 &#8211; Most people are conversant with the 50-30-20 rule on money, and its variations, as regards expenditure and savings. Whilst financial success can somewhat be attributed to saving every possible penny, building a hefty savings kitty should not take over one&#8217;s life to the point where they are not enjoying the fruits of one&#8217;s labour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Being financially responsible is important, but it&#8217;s also essential to enjoy life and take care of yourself. If you feel like you&#8217;re just getting by, it might&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040422.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 4 &#8211; Most people are conversant with the 50-30-20 rule on money, and its variations, as regards expenditure and savings. Whilst financial success can somewhat be attributed to saving every possible penny, building a hefty savings kitty should not take over one&#8217;s life to the point where they are not enjoying the fruits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,257,8418,254],"class_list":["post-195410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-saving","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}