<prompt> Human: Good morning, rpersonalfinanceAs a bit of background, I am currently at university and work in the holidays.I earn around 400 week working in holiday working 5 days.As I live in wales, my rent is 80w and utilities are going to be sorting them out right now around 15 week.My parents are giving me 600 per month toward my studies and I have around a 5000 student maintenance loan.As I have so much spare money at the moment, I am throwing it all away and pretty much cannot stop myself. My paychecks are above 1000 and as a 19 year old, this is so much money that I think that I cant get through it.I started tracking how much I spent on gaming and other things by looking through my bank statement and my expenses for the last month that I was at uni June were as follows:Rent: 640 halls Food: 167Transportation: 98 had to commute between campuses Entertainment Netflix cinema e.t,c : 36Gifts: 36 no birthdays, I just give out a lot of money to people, buy them dinner e.t.c Sports 18Gaming: 305x200B;I never realised what an absolutely ridiculous amount of money I was spending on gaming. From combing through my expenses I have found that Ive spent around 2-3k on gaming this year. This is money that I could be saving and putting towards a house in a few years time.I blame the reason that I have such bad control of my money due the fact that at 16, I was trading skins and making about 3-400 per month, which at that age just means I could buy the entire world, at the same time being given money from my parents.I realise that my situation may not apply to everyone as Im in a very fortunate situation with my parents financing me and having a solid job in the holidays.I want to if anyone has been in a similar situation and has any advice for me. I wonder whether its possible, for example, to block steam other gaming things from my card so that I cant throw away my money.I also realise that it is entirely my fault but Im just looking how to force myself into changing my habits so that I dont throw away my future.x200B;Thanks in advance for any advice.  <response>: Most video games today with micro pays and loot boxes have been specifically designed to be addicting. You got sucked in by something that is designed to strip people of their money; no different than a casino. I would strongly suggest research gambling addiction and not be hard on yourself and start working on doing better.I used to work with this person who worked out, looked great, drove a nice car and lived in great condo. They would brutally put down overweight people and mock their lack of self control and make snarky comments if an overweight person would eat a sweet or drink a regular soda. One day we find out they were kicked out of their condo and the car was repoed at work. Turns out they were a horrific gambler and literally gambled away all of the money, and this person made six figures a year. They were in such denial didt file bk to try and save the condo.With all my years of sucking air on this rock I have come to find out that people who treat things like this with harsh comments are usually compensating for their own bad habits. 