Shoe Inventory

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

I took inventory of my shoe collection recently.

After some thinking...

I donated a pair of sneakers I only wore a couple times because I don't like the pale blue color. They're really cute, and I kept trying to wear them, but I just prefer a navy or white sneaker.

I donated a pair of flats that squeak when I walk 🤣.
I apologize in advance to the person who buys them. Maybe I should have tossed them in the garbage?

I donated a pair of square toe heeled loafers I wore often with full length trousers in fall and winter, but I don't like them anymore. I just don't like the look of square toe shoes.

My new and current number of shoes is 25 pairs. I haven't owned this few since I started my career in the early 80s.

I owned about 10 pairs when I moved into my first apartment. After that my shoe collection kept growing and growing. At one time I owned 89 pairs. (Yes, I counted them back then.)

I own mostly loafers, ballet flats, low heeled shoes, and sneakers now. Even though I'm retired I still have a few three inch heels for singing at church and other occasions. I own a few pairs of boots and a couple wedges. No sandals except a navy wedge sandal.

I still love shoes, and I'm trying not to buy anything I don't need. 🥴 Avoiding all the shoe stores in my city helps.
I rarely buy shoes online so that's not a temptation.

Anyone else care to share info about their shoe collections?

Hope Everyone is Having a Good Week!

Miss Posie · ‎09-09-2019

Good for you, paring down. I can't seem to do that even though retired for many years and hardly ever wear many of the shoes in my collection.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@wilma. I commiserate. I have so many shoes, I don't know what I have. Every once in awhile, a pair emerges from the depths of the closet, obviously unworn, that I'd swear I've never seen before.

They are so easy to acquire and so hard to give up.

New Mexico☀️Land Of Enchantment

vermint · ‎04-05-2010

I know I have at least 3 pair of shoes to donate when I switch my closet from spring/summer to fall/winter. Just bought them last fall, they fit OK and I did wear them a few times, but I just can't make myself like them! They are nice shoes, and somebody will be glad to get them. There may be more I can donate, I'll have to see what I have.

Shoes are the main thing I do switch out anymore...I have managed to pare my clothes down enough so that all I put away are some white pants in the fall, and some DreamJeannes in the spring!

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

Yep--am a certified shoe addict myself!!! I donated over 40 pairs of slightly worn various types of shoes just a few years ago. Sold my house and downsized to a small apartment with NO storage for much of anything---I have maybe 15 pairs now and am trying not to buy anymore. It's so hard

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

I still have all of my Fly London sandals and boots. I hope that physical therapy can get me walking well again.

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@wilma wrote:
I took inventory of my shoe collection recently.

After some thinking...
I donated a pair of sneakers I only wore a couple times because I don't like the pale blue color. They're really cute, and I kept trying to wear them, but I just prefer a navy or white sneaker.

I donated a pair of flats that squeak when I walk 🤣.
I apologize in advance to the person who buys them. Maybe I should have tossed them in the garbage?

I donated a pair of square toe heeled loafers I wore often with full length trousers in fall and winter, but I don't like them anymore. I just don't like the look of square toe shoes.

My new and current number of shoes is 25 pairs. I haven't owned this few since I started my career in the early 80s.
I owned about 10 pairs when I moved into my first apartment. After that my shoe collection kept growing and growing. At one time I owned 89 pairs. (Yes, I counted them back then.)

I own mostly loafers, ballet flats, low heeled shoes, and sneakers now. Even though I'm retired I still have a few three inch heels for singing at church and other occasions. I own a few pairs of boots and a couple wedges. No sandals except a navy wedge sandal.

I still love shoes, and I'm trying not to buy anything I don't need. 🥴 Avoiding all the shoe stores in my city helps.
I rarely buy shoes online so that's not a temptation.

Anyone else care to share info about their shoe collections?

Hope Everyone is Having a Good Week!

@wilma

I had about as many as you said you had when you had counted, dozens. Year before last, I had bought a large container of desicant because it was raining a lot and sometimes in rainy weather my closet can get a musty smell because it is near my bathroom as well as a large window and moisture leaks in those places whether the contractors admit it or not. So I bought the desicant and set it on the shelf. DH called me to do something, we had to go to the ER. He was admitted and I totally forgot about it. One son came to check on our house and called me at the hospital and asked what was that stuff on the shelf, that felt like a drying substance. I told him. He said "Well, it's no longer there and all your shoes are small enough for a doll." I could have cried but there was no use. I don't know if I had tone in there in a hurry to get my coat on our way to the hospital and knocked it off or if when I closed the door or just what caused it to turn over, but when our son found it, it was far too late, as I also had two blazers that were victims as well. So I started over and I have about 15 pairs of shoes. I have a hard time buying shoes because I have such bad bunions so I have to be very select and out of those 15 or so pairs, I probably wear 3-4 most of the time.

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

@Nonametoday

I remember you telling that story. How sad you lost shoes and a couple blazers.

Sorry about your bunions. They definitely can make shoe shopping a challenge. My aunt and a friend had really bad bunions with toe crossover. My friend had surgery, and despite following directions, hers came back a few years later. I have one moderate bunion that affects some of the shoes I can buy and wear. My bunion doesn't hurt or crossover-yet. I use a splint for a few hours at night to keep it from getting worse. So far so good.

Enjoy your weekend!

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@wilma wrote:
@Nonametoday
I remember you telling that story. How sad you lost shoes and a couple blazers.

Sorry about your bunions. They definitely can make shoe shopping a challenge. My aunt and a friend had really bad bunions with toe crossover. My friend had surgery, and despite following directions, hers came back a few years later. I have one moderate bunion that affects some of the shoes I can buy and wear. My bunion doesn't hurt or crossover-yet. I use a splint for a few hours at night to keep it from getting worse. So far so good.

Enjoy your weekend!

@wilma Two children have them and two do not. One child had bunion surgery in his 20s and they returned within 5 years. He is not going to do that again because he has bad sinuses and has had several surgeries for that. He is getting tired of surgeries that don't work and I understand that, so I am not going down that road to get them removed although my mother had hers removed and not a single problem at all.