The Fashiorectic’s Quiz

How to know if you have fashiorexia or just poor money management skills

  1. You’re at the mall, it’s lunch time and you skipped breakfast. You only have 30 minutes till you have to be back at work and there is a fast food restaurant to your right and an H&M to your left. Which way do you go?
    1. Right because you’re famished and starting to get a little crusty.
    2. Left because there’s still a whole 30 minutes left to shop.
    3. Nowhere as you are about to collapse from having spent last night’s dinner money and this morning’s coffee money on the cute new boots that you’re wearing.
  2. You’re having people over for your birthday and there isn’t anything worth serving in your fridge and your mom has just given you a birthday card with $500 in it. What do you do?
    1. Put it in the bank.
    2. Write up a list of appetizers and cocktail mixes to pick up for your guests.
    3. Write up a list of the cool new clothes they just got in at your favorite store.
  3. On pay day, where do you go immediately after work?
    1. Home cuz you’re tired and it’s just like every other day.
    2. To pick up your groceries for the week.
    3. To the closest DKNY location.
  4. You realize that you’re famished but spent all of your money while out shopping with the girls. You automatically think:
    1. I guess it’s time to dig through the cupboards and see what I’ve got to eat.
    2. Who can I borrow money from so I can eat?
    3. Oh well, now my ass will look even better in those jeans I got.
    4. Who can I borrow money from so I can buy more clothes to keep my mind off the fact that I am so hungry that my stomach is now eating itself??
  5. You just got a bonus at work and you want to celebrate. You:
    1. Pick up a bottle of wine and order in from that hot new Thai restaurant that your friends have been raving about.
    2. Hit the shops immediately.
    3. What? Sorry, I didn’t quite get the question; it’s a little hard to concentrate while trying on $500 shoes at Jimmy Choo.

Bonus question

  • Choose which list of priorities seems most accurate to you:
    1. #1 Food and water, #2 Love, #3 Clothes
    2. #1 Clothes, #2 Food and Water, #3 Love
    3. #1 Clothes … Do I need anything else??

So how did you do? Continue for the diagnosis.