Women purchase 469 pairs of shoes through life

Women purchase 469 pairs of shoes through life: Survey


The average women will spend 16,000 pounds on shoes in her whole lifetime, according to a survey by Gocompare.com.

According to the research, girls usually buy their first pair without their mum at 14, and then the purchase limit goes to seven pairs a year for the rest of their lives, which eventually brings the number to 469 pairs.

Spending 34.99 pounds on an average pair makes ladies splash out 244.93 pounds each year and 16,410 pounds over 67 years.

The survey of 3,000 women concluded that the average woman has nearly about 19 pairs of shoes which includes – three pairs with heels, six pairs of flip-flops, sandals, ballet pumps or wedges, three pairs of boots and four pairs of ‘foxy-style’ shoes for night parties.

Their shoe racks also have two pairs of work shoes and another two or so ‘random’ purchases.

Four in 10 women say they judge another female by the shoes she has on.

More than half find it easy to justify a purchase to themselves but a quarter rarely tell their partner about new ones as “he wouldn’t understand”.

“Shoes are women’s one major weakness,” the Daily Express quoted Hayley Parsons, of Gocompare as saying.

MY THOUGHTS

i'm normal, i'm normal...or as this article says, i'm an average woman. haha. i think i still have 69 shoes to hit the lifetime average....