Comments on: Cheerful Frugality Sorts Shoes

By: Dionysia

Dionysia — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:17:14 +0000

I have a problem with my shoes especially the shoes for working. I have to purchase shoes very frequently. I still don’t know how to solve this problem.

By: mink Baby Gifts

mink Baby Gifts — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:23:43 +0000

Minimizing is great. My question is how do you keep them organized? We have 13 people living at home. 8 are under the age of 9. Any organizational tips?

By: mink Baby Gifts

mink Baby Gifts — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:23:05 +0000

My son only has one pair of Crocs and one pair of Tevas. We live in Hawaii and can get by with these year round. Dress is informal enough here that his Tevas are dressy enough for a kid for all occasions. Unfortunately, I can never find them used but I do look for deals on Amazon.

By: kik Canon digital slr

kik Canon digital slr — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:04:38 +0000

For summer, I estimate I’ve got around 30 pairs that I can say where they are and what they look like, and I know I have some more in the basement. Not counting flip flops though, since those aren’t really shoes

By: DeputyHeadmistress

DeputyHeadmistress — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:51:23 +0000

My son doesn’t usually have dress shoes. He wears athletic shoes to church and at home. He does have a pair of cowboy boots now that friends bought him at a thrift shop.

Me? I have way too many shoes. I don’t wear them out, but I buy them at the thrift shop whenver I see a comfortable pair my size or close enough.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:06:40 +0000

My whole life there has never been money for shoes. I have two pair now which is more than I have ever had and I have had them for almost 8 years. So extras are not exactly in my vocabulary.
I’m 50 so I guess this is proof that you can live wwithout more than most people think.

By: Milehimama

Milehimama — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:24:35 +0000

My boys have 2 pairs – church shoes and athletic shoes. They mostly run around the yard barefoot.

The girls generally have dressier shoes (mary janes, for example) and more casual shoes (slip ons/sandals)

I have 2 shoe organizers stacked by the front door that holds 30 shoes, total so they only have 2 pairs each ‘out’. I wrote the kid’s initials on the bottom of their slot.

I have a box of “extras” – in betweener shoes that don’t fit anyone right now, and when a child outgrows something or needs a new size, I check there, first. It’s not organized – but the little kids love trying on all of the shoes while we check if a pair fits!

I bought 40 pairs of the same exact white socks for my boys – age 6, 9, and 11 so matching would be easier, too! (They have 1 pair of black church socks). The girls have all of the same socks (purple toed hanes), my socks are all white and the same, and husbands are also all white, and the same!

By: jill

jill — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:00:46 +0000

Minimizing is great. My question is how do you keep them organized? We have 13 people living at home. 8 are under the age of 9. Any organizational tips?

By: Shannon M

Shannon M — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:22:23 +0000

Karen – I do that too. I only buy white socks, all the same kind, for the kids and I don’t match – they each have a sock box or basket in their drawer and whichever socks they pull out match. And in a laundry pinch one kid can wear another kid’s socks.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:30:42 +0000

My son has 2 pair–tennies and church shoes. When my daughter was young, I also kept her to a minimal number of shoes, although probably not that few.

The bigger lesson I learned with my daughter was to only buy white socks. You know, after the sock monster had me down to one each yellow, pink, and purple socks one too many a morning, I finally realized that even if the sock monster ate half of each pair of white socks, I’d still have pairs to make! What a relief!