£5000 IN 2 DAYS?! £13,000 IN DEBT?! | Spendaholics

twenty-eight-year-old Becca Tapley is addicted to looking good but her credit card bills are not a pretty sight I love spending money I love it I love the power it gives me I spend it like no one's business I spent like it's going out fashion a PA at a luxury shoe company Becca earns 28 grand a year but in the last three years she's racked up an unfashionable 15 grand debt yeah this is Marc Jacobs code my fiendish buy bag try to shoot these are my Gina's this dress cost me $900 375 pounds $700 I think I sorted I just had to have a of warning ones who knows it's worth it's gorgeous [Music] something inside me says yeah corny deserve it what does it matter get it likes you sure get it [Music] but she doesn't just treat herself Moloko the pug and Buster the bull terrier are pretty well heeled to her friends think it's gone too far t-shirts the dolt about 75 I do worry about it because there is no end she will spend and spend and spent help is at hand lifestyle expert Jay hunt will help better cut down the cost without cutting out the style you can save some money make something for yourself and keep to the budget psychological coach Benjamin Frye will unearth the demons working in Becker's designer wardrobe put out two sides of your personality that are at war with each other Becker spending is at crisis point her finances are in need of a new season makeover I do think I am getting out of control of my spending definitely yeah I mean it's not it's not right is it to keep racking up all these credit card but I can't stop [Music] Becca Tapley works in London as a PA at a luxury shoe company despite a 28 grand salary living the vogue lifestyle is sending her deep into the red I think working for a luxury shoe company it's really kicked off my spending habit I didn't have that many luxury items before I started working there but you should never economize on like three years ago Becca discovered a way she could live like the fashion Jet Set just one day they were like Hello you can have a credit card my life change since then her credit cards have been working overtime and so has she I was actually finding all my repayment for pretty much taking up all my salary so I got a job in a pub just a couple of nights away you know you got to do what you got to do right despite her money worries Becca's spending soar to new heights on a recent shopping trip Prince New York and I spent five grand in two days I couldn't believe it myself there she met the love of her life a three thousand dollar handbag there it was this gold one and the guy said would like to hold it and sadistically I didn't look at the tag I just signed even best friend Claire thinks she's out of control she's going out at lunch time she's applying for credit card she's buying online and at the moment it's not getting any better she does need somebody to help her out just all the while her ambition is going to waste now is quite a crucial moment to get my spending under control because I want to start my own business in fashion but love to have my own boutique that's my dream but can her dreams become reality not even she's sure I'm still working at my credit cards so that's really something that's got a stop I suppose maybe on a bit of a self destruct mission you know am i doing Beca works in London but commutes from leafy Surrey where she lives alone while she's out shopping Benjamin and Jay have borrowed the keys to her flat it's time for them to take a closer look at the clues to her spending addiction it's not what I thought at all it's like a real students hangout it sort of stinks of dog and it's some slightly Crotty really I don't know what assumptions that make about me they've never met me and then they'll be going through all my things I'm quite nervous I just live out it's a bit funny really someone going through your staff with a lounge more shabby than shabby chic they head to the kitchen for more evidence cupboard is bare so not much of a foodie except when it comes to the dogs she's buying really nice expensive organic dog food posh pet food dog clothes do you think she thinks she's sort of Paris Hilton dressing her dogs up as ludicrous a pug puppy mm-hmm you're talking about not much change from a thousand pounds for that I know I buy lots of presents clothes toys new leads do you love your mommy there's just one last room to check and it looks like they've hit the jackpot suddenly some feminine cares and presentation a 1500 pound Fendi bag Marc Jacobs bags those start from about 300 upwards Jeana shoes 335 pounds para Marc Jacobs shoes you're probably talking about 300 400 pounds for those it is easy to see that the money here is really going on clothes bags shoes and I tell you what quite a lot of it as well [Music] amongst the many treasures are hidden talents that's quite interesting see that's not got a label on it but it looks like something she's either had customized or she's customized herself and under her bed the proof of all that spending I'm sure she's got a store card at Topshop there was expensive yeah there we go Harvey Nichols House of Fraser net-a-porter yeah internet shopping ah look how much is being spent on all the pet stuff you know what's really funny is I wonder if anybody who she works with would ever imagine that she lives in such a sort of student place it doesn't really fit in with her Bogue lifestyle [Music] armed with Becca's finances Jay and Benjamin want to wake her up to what she's really been spending on and how long it's taken her to spend it [Music] good all that money and all that stuff in the ward Josey they let down I bet under those shoes [Music] thanks for carrying out the London assist we've got some fun stuff to show [Music] our financial do lead her to their lair where they've set a trap now what this is is the web of debt her challenge is to rescue the receipts caught in the web and fight her way to Benjamin and Jay's boutique on the other side about how you've spun this web for yourself this is something that you made that now you're struggling through okay the first receipt is a big bill four bags six grand spent in just three years [Music] the second is for five thousand eight hundred seventy eight pounds the amount Becker spent on shoes in the same time [Music] and the final amount comes in at a colossal nine thousand two hundred and forty two pounds just on clothes now would you like to know what that totals not really no would you it's too much okay well have a look at this Becca's total in just three years is more than twenty-one grand know what do you reckon I can't believe that I'm know are the things that you've bought in the past three years worth it when you look at that amount is is there twenty one thousand one hundred twenty pounds worth of fabulous things in your house no no you look a little bit shocked by this it can't possibly be that much mm-hmm calm very okay it is that much I'm not gonna let it get any worse than that that's shocking but it does cue a second alarm call to wake her up can you hear that noise yeah ah [Music] the pace can you imagine what this might be about Becca my dogs mm-hmm no each toy dog represents 50 pounds Becca spent spoiling her pricy pooches it's actually three thousand and fifty pounds that you spent in the last 12 months on your thoughts well we've got our work cut out because we've got to cut back on the dog spending and the fashion spending but first things first we're gonna go and sit down and work out with you your cold turkey budget and no dog spending for the next seven days you

Channel: Spendaholics

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Keywords: Spendaholics, Shopaholics, Shopping, Spending, Haul, Addicted, Addiction, BBC, Only Human, Jay Hunt, Benjamin Fry, Debt, Finances, TV Show, Full Episodes

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Length: 12min 11sec (731 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 17 2020