Can It Be True? Study Says Women Spend $25,000 On Shoes In A Lifetime

We all know that most women like shoes, but a new study proves it: The Daily Express reports that the average woman spends about $25,000 in a lifetime on footwear, and accumulates about 470 pairs.

Truth be told, I was not entirely surprised by these numbers. A self-identified shoe person, I own more pairs than I can actually wear (although I don't know my exact tally), and I just keep buying more. It's easy for me to justify a footwear purchase, more so than a bag or a piece of jewelry, perhaps because they are an essential part of an outfit--you can't walk around without them.

A little while ago in the blog, I asked readers if they choose toforgo comfort for stylewhen they buy shoes,but now I am wondering more about these accessories as a big-picture expense. It would be useless for me to try and calculate how much money I have forked over on footwear during my life--that just sounds like a herculean task--but I think I could determine what I have spent in the last year.

How much have you put toward shoes in the past 12 months?Will you exceed the average woman's $25,000 lifetime total?