live beyond one's means
Outspend your income
To live beyond one's means is to spend more money than one earns, typically by accumulating debt or depleting savings.
The phrase implies unsustainable habits—buying things you can't actually afford: They lived beyond their means for years before the credit cards caught up with them.
The opposite is to live within one's means.
- overspendingExceeding one's budget
- debtMoney owed another
- maxed out cardsCredit lines fully used
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
- billAmount owed, written
impulsivity · social comparison · materialism · conspicuous consumption · credit · buy now pay later · instant gratification · impulse buying · keeping up with the Joneses · lifestyle creep · loan · budgeting · insecurity · bankruptcy · repossession · excess · denial · robbing Peter to pay Paul
live beyond one's meanseconomize
Reduce expenses deliberately
tighten one's belt · pinch pennies · make ends meet · save money · scrimp and save
live beyond one's meanslive simply
Adopt an uncluttered lifestyle
do without · make do · deny oneself · downsize · go without
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