Could you buy just 5 new items of clothing this year?

Even a shopaholic like me knows it's time to change

Look me in the eye and tell me you've never done this.

My name is Sam and I’m a (bit of a) shopaholic. (Look at me, qualifying in the first sentence. The truth is, I would be far worse if I had the money.) I have always loved clothes, even back in my student Goth days when I had about a £25  to last me a month after rent and all those clothes had to be black, I could still spend hours scouring Digbeth Market (student second-hand shopping venue of choice in Birmingham circa mid-1980s) for yet another black dress. I still mourn my most coveted find, a black double layer lace shift dress from the sixties that fitted like a glove back when 20-year-old me thought I was fat and I could just about get half way up my thighs now, but that’s a different conversation.

It took me many years to connect my clothes shopping habit to my emotional state – the …