YOU CAN DO IT!! You can buy one thing at a time. All it takes is a little discipline.  What you might want to try doing, is to take the amount of money that you have to spend each month, and withdraw that amount from the bank in cash.  Put it in an envelope.   Next, make a list of the items that you need to purchase in that same time frame.  When you decide to make a purchase, look at your list of necessary items, then decide if you should buy whatever it is, because when the cash is gone, the spending stops.  Putting in place a spending plan, makes you think BEFORE YOU SPEND.  It also keeps you from taking out that ATM card, or worse, credit card, to make an impulse purchase.  By the end of the month, even if the cash is spent, you will not have deep debt, and if you did buy something, you did not do it without thinking first.  After a short time, this kind of pattern of behavior stays with you, and who knows, maybe you can go a long time, and not buy anything.