12 STEPS OF SPENDERS ANONYMOUS


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The following are the 12 Steps of Spenders Anonymous.

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You can also read a summary of the Spenders Anonymous program in our directory site.



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Step 1

We admitted we were powerless over spending and money and that our lives had become unmanageable.

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Step 2

Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

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Step 3

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care God, as we understood God.

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Step 4

Made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves.

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Step 5

Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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Step 6

We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

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Step 7

Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

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Step 8

Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

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Step 9

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

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Step 10

Continued to take personal and financial inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

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Step 11

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God-praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.

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Step 12

Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive spenders and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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