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I want to get out of debt/stop compulsive spending

luelle · 2018-02-22 02:14:52

I’m useless with money. I’m addicted to shopping. I’m stupid with credit and I’m ready to stop. I have tried to break down all necessary outgoings and debts, I know it’s a lot to ask but if someone could write me a plan, a budget, a suggestion, how to get myself out of this before it spirals. Please. All my debts: TSB…

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theoretica Posts: 12,691 Forumite

25 February 2018 at 12:04PM

You need to change your habits, which is hard. I find it particularly hard to stop something without having something new to replace it with. So take a look at when and where you used to spend money and avoid those situations by starting something new (and cheap) with the time.

But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,

Had the whole of their cash in his care.
Lewis Carroll

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