Why does this always happen?

I was watching this one reality show were this woman was going into poverty an losing her job, yet she has an iphone and an Apple Laptop and Hollister clothes and everything expensive like that. But the thing is people should stop wasting their money on things that you don't need and focus on getting a proper house. How can they afford things like they can't afford a house, or food or pay teir bills?

She likely got those things when she had a job. Obviously some people are extravagant.