I’m a financial planner — this is the one simple money habit you need to break in 2025

New year, new habits.

Shannon McLay, the CEO of financial planning service The Financial Gym, is shaeing the one spending habit that people should break in 2025.

Emphasizing “mindfulness,” the money guru says it’s time to delete easy payment apps off your smartphone, which allow you to make thoughtless purchases with just the click of a button.

“I always say we work really hard for every dollar that we make, so we need to make it hard to spend those dollars because it’s hard to get it in the bank,” she told TheStreet.

“But it’s so easy for us to spend money we spend on our phones. We spend it with credit cards on apps, and we don’t realize where it’s going.”

McLay says financial experts “hear all the time” that their clients have “no idea” where their money is going, with many saying they “make it and then it’s gone.”