I used to be a shopaholic drowning in £94k debt but then I streamlined my wardrobe – I was out of the red in no time
A FASHION fan has revealed how she used her shopping and style habits to help pull herself out of debt.
The super saver argues buying less clothes is the best starting point for creating good spending habits.
Christina Mychas shared her journey in a TikTok video online.
She said: “Clothes I stopped by when I found my personal style.”
“I’m Christina and I used to be a full blown shopaholic and in over $120,000 [£94,000] of student loan debt,” she said.
The fashion fan concluded once she stopped buy loads of clothes she was able to determine her style.
Christina said: “[Debt] that I could never really get out from underneath because of my bad shopping habits and I realised a lot of the reasons that I shopped was because I never felt good enough in my personal style.”
“I thought by buying more then I would be able to find it. But the funny thing about all that was when I stopped shopping was when I was actually able to find my personal style and change my emotional shopping and money habits,” she said.
Christina claimed she used to following YouTube trends and buying massive shopping hauls.
She said, “Number one was clothing hauls, I came of age in the era of YouTube that was the advent of the clothing haul and just the haul in general.”
“Makeup hauls, clothing hauls and for me watching hauls constantly really started to normalise the amount of things that you would buy in one time.”
She confessed: “So it became very moral for me to buy one to ten items in one go, to spend over $500 [£400] in one shopping trip, because buying one or two pieces for a season suddenly didn’t feel like enough.”
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Christina eventually realised she didn’t need to buy loads of high heels
She said: “Number two if high heels. If you are a millennial like me then chances are you grew up watching sex in the city with aspirations to have a closet full of Manolo Blahniks.”
“But I realised high heel wearing me was such a fantasy because I walk every day. A towering high heel just isn’t practical,” she said.
Lastly Chirstina decided to stop hopping on fashion trends.
She said: “Number three was every trend that was under the sun, I think trends can be a really good thing especially if you want to experiment. But chasing after every single one of them I think just creates a lot more confusion in your personal style.”
“Because you have to commit a lot of time and money into finding these things and then if you don’t like you wasted a lot of money and took yourself further away from finding your style,” she said.
Christina concluded: “It just turned out the less I bought the more clear about my style I got.”