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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Business
Levi Winchester

Everything you can do to survive until payday and boost your finances to beat Blue Monday

Blue Monday is supposedly the most depressing day of the year - and that day is today.

It’s meant to be the day where Brits feel most miserable about the long wait until January payday, after being paid early before Christmas, combined with feeling down about debts and the bleak UK weather.

But it was actually devised by psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall in 2004 as a way to help travel companies sell holidays.

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