Do you have $600 worth of shoes you never wear in your closet?

Jezebel reports:

Apparently, the average British woman owns 20 pairs of shoes, eleven of which she barely wears.

The total value of the average lady’s shoe closet? £720, or around $1,189.

That means about $660 worth of shoes are sitting idle.

Women buy an average of eight new pairs each year.

Do I own 11 pairs of shoes that are around $660 worth that I never wear?

Let’s take a look at some of my shoes (not all of them pictured but I will list them out).

Okay now let’s see the prices and what I could get rid of!

The prices are in the ballpark and to be fair, I’m putting them at the original retail price I paid, not what I could sell them for today.

I’m sure if I tried to sell them today, they’d be a third of the price. 😛

Missing from photo:

  • KEEP: Brown Winter Ecco Boots — $100
  • KEEP: Brown Flat Ecco Boots – $300
  • KEEP: Black Suede Steve Madden Heeled Boots – $100
  • KEEP: Brown Heeled Boots – $100
  • KEEP: Bronze Steve Madden Kitten Heels – $100
  • KEEP: Brown Aldo Stitched Pumps – $100
  • KEEP: Asolo Hiking Boots – $400

TOTAL SHOE WARDROBE = $1895 (roughly!)

VALUE OF WHAT I’D KEEP = $1695

VALUE OF WHAT I COULD SELL = $200

Hmmm…

I USED TO HAVE MORE…

I’m sure I could pare down even more to sell another $200 worth (retail price) or maybe $400.

Even so, this is all after I got rid of the OTHER shoes I had during my Great Closet Cleanout of 2008. :\

NO MORE SHOES

I don’t really buy shoes any more. They aren’t my “thing”, and neither are purses.

Every time I see a cute pair of shoes I think: Gee I don’t have RED heels with a bow…

Then I slap myself back into reality and say: But where would I wear them? To work. But at work, would I wear red heels? No.

And there ends my desire to buy any shoes or boots.

This is all interesting food for thought, however. I wonder if I should sell my shoes. Again.

What about you? How many do you have?

About the Author

Just a girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver. I cleared $60,000 in 18 months earning $65,000 gross/year. Now I am self-employed, and you can read more about my story here, or visit my other blog: The Everyday Minimalist.