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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Business
Vicky Shaw

Is ‘doom spending’ draining your money? How to fix your financial habits in 2025

Our spending habits are often tied to emotions and core beliefs (Alamy/PA) - (EPA)

Have you become stuck in a financial rut without really realising? Perhaps money drains away each month due to ‘doom spending’ on items you can barely even remember buying.

Emma Edwards, founder of the Broke Generation, a website for “hot mess” Millennials, explores how life often scuppers our best financial intentions in her new book, Good With Money – as well as how we can ‘reprogramme’ our spending habits for the better.

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