Many women -and men too – love shoes, but when you have over $20,000 worth of them, it’s probably time to reconsider your consumption. Monte, a retired teacher, had “mountainous piles” of shoes. “I was shopping myself to death,” Monte admitted in August of last year. She attributes her shopping addiction to a painful divorce, which prompted her to start shopping at resale shops. The “high” she got from getting a bargain helped her forget her troubles and kept her from getting too close to anyone after the divorce, but distanced her from her son as well. She recently appeared on the TV show Hoarders, which she says will help her “to move forward.”
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Carrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years and hopes to inspire women to better prepare themselves for financial independence.