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Woman Has 1,200 Pairs of Shoes: Awesome or Obnoxious?

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Professional poker player Beth Shak, 41, told Footwear News she owns 1,200 pairs of shoes, including 700 pairs of super-pricey Christian Louboutins.

The shoes take up three closets in her Bryn Mawr, Penn., home, and add up to about $500,000 in value.

Yep -- that's half a million dollars worth of shoes.

"It's my one happiness," the stiletto-junkie told The New York Post.

Red-soled shoe maker Louboutin even lets Shak special-order stilettos to give her early dibs on limited-edition styles.

"They pretty much just e-mail me pictures, and I get to pick what I want," she told the Post.

Before you write Shak off as totally and completely obnoxious, she is planning to donate some of her shoes to charity. So a homeless person could soon be walking around in a pair of Shak's Lanvin ballet flats.

It also makes us feel a bit better to learn that Shak wears Havaiana flip-flops on a regular basis. But you really can't wear high heels to the beach.

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  • Rdtourist Damn So... 2011/08/01 13:53:37
    Rdtourist
    What about women, are they just chopped liver?
  • DanielR... Damn So... 2011/08/01 13:57:45
    DanielRivers
    Did you read the article? She is donating her shoes to homeless shelter. What is wrong with liking something and collecting it? And maybe she has a mental disorder. I think you are the self centered person. Maybe if you did pray you would learn to focus on yourself.
  • MunchKin-x Damn So... 2011/08/01 18:23:18
    MunchKin-x
    Excuse me? What makes you think all women are like this?
    Just because one woman is this selfish and self-obsessed, Doesn't mean everyone with a vagina is.
  • Rick Mehlenbacher 2011/08/01 13:43:09
    Obnoxious
    Rick Mehlenbacher
    +1
    I think, How many starving children could you save with the money you have spent on an item you may never get to wear more than once.. I'm ok with a dozen.. I own a dozen different type footwear.. But. really this is a sickness and it is Obnoxious !!!!!!!
  • Marbles Rick Me... 2011/08/01 13:56:59
    Marbles
    i'm not condoning her obsession here, but the article doesn't exactly go into how often and how much she donates to charities?
  • HxCookie 2011/08/01 13:42:48
    Obnoxious
    HxCookie
    It's her money but gosh. Thats a lot of shoes!
  • Teshawn LeVarr Edmonds 2011/08/01 13:41:23
    Obnoxious
    Teshawn LeVarr Edmonds
    +3
    Too many pairs of footwear. This is an obnoxious act to claim some 1200 pairs of footwear.
  • SiliconSorcerer 2011/08/01 13:37:45
    Awesome
    SiliconSorcerer
    +4
    Great stimulate the economy, if she can afford them then God bless her. If she was on food stamps that would be a different story.
  • Greg 2011/08/01 13:29:25
    Obnoxious
    Greg
    +2
    Obnoxious, but if she can afford them, it's her money.
  • wgossett99 2011/08/01 13:29:01
    Obnoxious
    wgossett99
    +1
    I think it is ridiculous. However, if she can afford it, it's her money to spend as she wishes.

    But really, who cares?
  • Ameera 2011/08/01 13:23:13
    Obnoxious
    Ameera
    u really dont need that many shoes. i bet a lot of the shoes look similare to one another
  • Josh Robinson R.P.2012' PWCM. 2011/08/01 13:08:47
    Obnoxious
    Josh Robinson  R.P.2012' PWCM.
    +1
    If she defines her personal worth by this collection she is one sick puppy.... defines personal worth collection sick puppy hoarders burried alive
  • EdWhiteSpace 2011/08/01 13:08:28
    Obnoxious
    EdWhiteSpace
    She has a right to do whatever she wants with her money, but she makes a living with risk and gambling and says the shoes are her 'one happiness'.

    Sounds like a headcase full of issues, guys.
  • Lovely_Shari 2011/08/01 12:59:24
    Awesome
    Lovely_Shari
    Nice, Am a shoe freak also. High Five? In your forehead? With a chair?
  • Stryder 2011/08/01 11:51:46 (edited)
    Obnoxious
    Stryder
    She should change her name to Imelda.
  • Marvelo... Stryder 2011/08/01 16:30:01
    Marvelous Wildfire
    +2
    Or Michelle Obama, . . . no wait! Michelle Obama wore $540 Lanvin trainers to a charity food bank.

    But unlike Imelda or Michelle, who used taxPAYERS' money to do stupid and gaudy, to jet-set with their friends on the taxPAYERS' money, this lady used her own money.
  • Stryder Marvelo... 2011/08/01 18:44:48
    Stryder
    +1
    This is true. At least she's paying her own way.
  • mr kalada 2011/08/01 11:49:56
    Obnoxious
    mr kalada
    wtf
  • apachehellfire65 2011/08/01 11:22:16
    Obnoxious
    apachehellfire65
    thats freaking retarded! i think i own like four pairs of shoe's!
  • KingdomNow 2011/08/01 10:59:59
    Awesome
    KingdomNow
    +2
    That's a half a million added to the economy. The lady earns her money and spends it a she wants.
  • Rdtourist KingdomNow 2011/08/01 13:54:47
    Rdtourist
    In Italy?
  • Marvelo... Rdtourist 2011/08/01 16:32:17
    Marvelous Wildfire
    Did you complain about Michelle Obama spending many times more, than this lady's entire shoe collection, in Spain?

    I didn't think so.
  • KingdomNow Rdtourist 2011/08/01 19:04:21
    KingdomNow
    +1
    From American stores and American employees -She probably pays much more in sales taxes than the average American as well. That woman, her profession and her shoes contribute to the economy, more so than most Americans, so I have no complaints.
  • Heisenberg 2011/08/01 09:02:21
    Obnoxious
    Heisenberg
    +6
    When she's 50 and alone she can collect cats.

    shes 50 collect cats cat lady
  • ♥♥◘PARTY◘POISON◘♥♥ 2011/08/01 08:47:17
    Obnoxious
    ♥♥◘PARTY◘POISON◘♥♥
    when is she gonna find the time to wear them all o.O
  • Michael Hertel 2011/08/01 08:31:49
    Obnoxious
    Michael Hertel
    +1
    No hate, I feel sorry for her, is she trying to fill some kind of a void in herself with shoes?
  • Shae 2011/08/01 05:21:38
    Awesome
    Shae
    +1
    Jealous :(
  • Lady Gir Jackson 2011/08/01 05:20:14
    Awesome
    Lady Gir Jackson
    +1
    But then again...why not donate the money you spend on the shoes to charities?? ...jeez nd i get yelled at for havin too many shoes..
    seriously SH more choices plz!!
  • DanielR... Lady Gi... 2011/08/01 13:53:22
    DanielRivers
    +1
    Maybe she does donate money to charities. Just because she likes shoes you expect her to give her money away? Other people buy boats and cars. So what? Why can't she buy what she likes why does she have to give money away?
  • Lady Gi... DanielR... 2011/08/01 21:52:13
    Lady Gir Jackson
    Would you have a gigantic collection? so what if she has a shoe fetish. I am NOT being mean or anything, I am just saying that she should donate and spend on more reasonable things. I only buy new sneakers when they are all worn out nd my family gets me high heels for speacial dresses. but why should I explain my opinion on a 33-yr old boy with no profile picture.
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  • DanielR... Lady Gi... 2011/08/11 21:50:58 (edited)
    DanielRivers
    What does me not having a profile pic have to do with anything? I did say in my reply earlier maybe she does donate money to charity, just because this article doesnt say so...that is how media is they sensationalise things. It does say she donates her shoes so what is your problem? And when you move out of your parents home and have extra money you should buy what you want and not get criticism becaue you have more than one of something. Michael Jackson had weird collections but I thought hey its neat let him collect elephant man bones it is his money.
  • Lady Gi... DanielR... 2011/08/13 15:34:56
    Lady Gir Jackson
    leave Michael out of it. And I didn't say anything about her donating shoes, I meant to say along with that, maybe it would be nice to send some money for those who need it, And what makes you think i'll have extra money to buy lots of things that I want?? not everyone in America can have that luxury. I know i'll be working my butt of in college so I can become what I want to be and in the future raise kids and start a college fund for them. I even donate my spare change to my favorite charity because it supports kids' familys who can't afford the hospital bills. I would know how that is cuz i've been to the same children's hospital because of my weak immune system. So don't critize my opinion because I know more about charities then u'd like to believe.
    And my problem is u need to back off because you don't know why I say what I say. I hav my reasons and u have ur own opinion, but seriously, stop provoking a fight with a 16 yr old who knows her partial share of life.
  • TheMadChameleon 2011/08/01 04:16:14
    Obnoxious
    TheMadChameleon
    +1
    Well, not really.... Neither. It just is. Just..... damn. When does she wear them!? Does she change shoes several times a day? I thought MY shoe collection was getting excessive......
  • Marvelo... TheMadC... 2011/08/01 16:36:58
    Marvelous Wildfire
    And I bet her shoe collection doesn't come close, percentage of income-wise, to what you spend on yours collection of shoes.

    What PERCENTAGE of your income do you spend on shoes?
  • TheMadC... Marvelo... 2011/08/02 01:42:12
    TheMadChameleon
    Not much! I'm a thrift store junkie.
  • ♥manda(: 2011/08/01 03:43:00
    Obnoxious
    ♥manda(:
    that's just crazyyy.
  • AsianCakes 2011/08/01 03:36:59
    Awesome
    AsianCakes
    +1
    Interesting . lool , just alot of pair of shoes ..
  • Irish little 2011/08/01 03:34:13
    Awesome
    Irish little
    +1
    But then again, to each its own. So who cares?
  • RogerCoppock 2011/08/01 03:27:32
    Obnoxious
    RogerCoppock
    ONLY 1,200 PAIRS OF SHOES?

    Imelda Marcos had 2,700 pairs of shoes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    shoes imelda marcos 2700 pairs shoes httpen wikipedia orgwiki Imelda Marcos shoes

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  • sglmom 2011/08/01 03:22:35
    Obnoxious
    sglmom
    There's no way anyone can wear any more than one pair of shoes at a time .. this is just insane.

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