CASHFLOWCONFESSIONS
Confessions

The story archive

A confession is a real, first-person account of living with debt — the avoidance, the shame, the relief of finally saying it out loud. Each one is also a short documentary on YouTube. New stories are published every week.

Themes in these stories
pay riseslifestyle inflationtaxcredit limitshidden debtrelationshipstrustshame
Latest confession
I Thought a £15,000 Pay Rise Would Fix My Debt. It Made It Worse.
ConfessionsEpisode 3

I Thought a £15,000 Pay Rise Would Fix My Debt. It Made It Worse.

Three years chasing a promotion, and then the call finally came. Eighteen months later I owed almost double — and nothing I'd done looked reckless.

£28,500 eighteen months after the pay rise

More stories
My Partner Hid £28,000 of Debt From Me
Episode 2

My Partner Hid £28,000 of Debt From Me

£28,000 hidden across cards, loans and overdrafts

The Balance I Stopped Checking
Episode 1

The Balance I Stopped Checking

£47,000 in credit card debt