How Obsessed With Shoes Are You? This Quiz Will Tell You (Score 1 to 100)

There’s a line between owning shoes and collecting them, and most people who’ve crossed it can’t remember when. Nine questions, about a minute, and a number out of 100 — plus the specific places where you’re more sensible than you’d like to admit.

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What the three scores measure

Shoe obsession splits into three separate things, and plenty of people are high on one and low on the others.

The Collection

Volume, storage and how often new pairs arrive. The storage question is the sharpest of the three, because building dedicated space for shoes is a deliberate decision in a way that simply accumulating them isn’t. Anyone can end up with forty pairs. Photographing the boxes is a choice.

What You’ll Pay

Your ceiling, and whether you have one at all. This is where the most honest answers live, because the number people have spent on a single pair is the thing they’re least likely to say out loud. Worth noting that a high ceiling and a large collection rarely go together — people tend to buy many at moderate prices or few at high ones.

Care & Devotion

Whether shoes are objects to you or equipment. Shoe trees, protector spray, an unworn pair kept for its own sake, noticing what strangers are wearing. This dimension is the one least related to money, which is why someone with a modest collection can score higher here than someone with a walk-in closet full.

If you scored high

Storage is where collections go wrong. Shoes kept in a heap deform, leather dries out without trees, and anything stored in direct sun fades unevenly. Cedar trees for anything leather, dust bags or clear boxes for the rest, and nothing stacked directly on top of anything else. It’s the difference between a collection that lasts a decade and one that quietly degrades.

On cost per wear

The argument people use to justify expensive shoes is usually cost per wear, and it does hold up — a well-made pair worn two hundred times genuinely costs less per outing than three cheap pairs worn thirty times each. The catch is that it only works if you wear them. A collection built on the cost-per-wear argument and then kept in boxes is a collection built on a technicality.