reckless spending
Burning through money
Reckless spending is using money without regard for consequences—buying impulsively, ignoring budgets, or depleting savings for things you don't need.
The phrase implies carelessness that will lead to financial trouble: Their reckless spending left them unable to pay rent.
It often appears in political criticism of government budgets or institutional waste.
- splurgeSpend freely, impulsively
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
- squanderUse up carelessly
- impulse buyingUnplanned purchase decision
- spendthriftReckless with money
throwing money away · maxed out · credit cards · buy now pay later · debt · deep in debt · shopping spree · frivolous · wasteful · money pit · binge · lavish · profligate · overdraft · keeping up with the Joneses · bankruptcy · financial ruin · irresponsible
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- spending habitsfrugality, overspending, impulse buying, frugal living, thriftiness
- wastefulnesswaste, squandering, extravagance, profligacy, dissipation
- economic follyspeculation, bubble, mania, bust, crash
- bipolar disordermania, hypomania, bipolar II, cyclothymia, manic episode
reckless spendingfiscal responsibility
Prudent management of funds
financial discipline · thrift · frugality · penny-pinching · budgeting
reckless spendingsaving
Reserving for future use
hoarding · austerity · accumulation · investing · capital preservation
reckless, spending, recklessly, recklessness, spend, spender, spenders, misspend, misspent