When is a good time to throw out your shoes?
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March 4th, 2010
After buying new sneakers( for example). I put the old ones in the garage for yard work. I have plenty of old pares of sneakers.
Same with shoes, but they go under the bed.
Is there an amount you go by and say, “Now these are going in the trash?”
How many pares of “old” shoes do you hang on to?
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I only ever have one pair at a time. I get rid of them when the soles are gone and I just have a leather over-foot kind of thing.
When they get up and walk out of the closet on their own! Or when I am three levels deep in old shoes in the closet and have no room for the new ones. Like you, I have a rotation for sneakers – new ones, garden ones, and ones that get retired to Florida.
When my dog finishes chewing the life out of them.
“When they have holes”
In my case, I will need a garage just for my shoes. Since they never get that bad before I get new ones. ;-)
When they hurt to wear, that’s when I toss them. The only exception are boots. Those get repaired over and over- to the point of adding insoles of other shoes inside them. Once you break in a good pair of boots, you just can’t let them go until they cry for mercy.
I keep one old pair at a time. When I get a new pair, my current pair become the work pair, and the old work pair go in the trash. As it is I have too many, as I do the same thing with slippers, sneakers, work shoes, winter boots, eight pairs.
@lucillelucillelucille I have had to give up many a shoe that way and hate having to throw away a perfectly good other shoe for the same reason!
When they lose their soles.
Get it? Soles… Souls.
When you’re in front of George W. Bush.
@Cruiser -I don’t mind losing a shoe that way as it is almost always worth it ;)
When it starts to have a hole or structurally collapse
@lucillelucillelucille It is worth it all right it’s just I have tried to match up shoes but there are all left shoes just can’t make it work. I can’t kick worth a damn with my left foot.
I have one pair of shoes that are ~25 years old, a pair of Sebago Docksiders. The rest I thrown out when they rip, the heels or soles get too worn to repair or when I realize they no longer are supporitng my feel properly.
If I just don’t like them anymore, they go into the donation bin that my building has set up in a common room.
When dogs run from them, I know they are “ripe” for the garbage bin.
When George W. Bush is standing ten feet in front of you.
I wear all leather men’s dress shoes. I have several pairs, but even my favorite ones start to wear out after awhile——the heels get abraided and the leather soles incur holes in them. The shoes still look pretty good on the top because I polish them, but the bottom part is where the wear-down is. I don’t discard them, but bring them to a local used clothes and shoes bin, where they are given to the needy. My little 5 year-old daughter once made a creative planter with one of my old dress shoes——and planted a collection of small cacti in it. Lol.
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/1/7/0/0/0/3/5/My-shiny-mens-dress-shoes-1267726382.jpeg
There is no such thing as too many shoes! :p Just because you bought new ones, doesn’t mean you need to throw the old ones out.
If they are crappy and I am debating letting them go, and then I step in dog shit, that’s the final decision. Otherwise I will probably never get rid of them because I feel at some point in a galaxy far far away I might possibly have a chance to wear them again.
When I don’t use it anymore.
@OperativeQ Nice one.Seems as though someone goes into these threads with their fucking eyes closed though.
Oh, @OperativeQ, I missed your post. Kudos and a GA to you. Seems as though someone goes into these threads with their fucking mouth open but their mind closed.
@OperativeQ The dope sorry dp guy, loves to chastise & correct folk on here for amongst other things there lack of observation.He duped your answer so made him aware.He not like, never mind.Wow this is so tedious,anyway yeah that’s what I meant.Once again, your answer made me smile, cheers.
“Their” lack of observation; not “there” lack of observation. “He not like never mind”: I have no idea what that means at all. In English orthography we include a space after a comma.
25. Sometimes the odd one is a left shoe, and sometimes a right. Depends on which side my limp is more pronounced.
I have a problem with throwing away old shoes. I have a special bond with each pair (I’m only sort of kidding).
When you begin seeing the same style on the homeless.
1. When they look crappy
2. When they break
3. When they go out of style
4. When they don’t fit anymore
5. When they wear out
6. When you don’t like them anymore
7. When you need more room in your closet
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I don’t like buying shoes, so I wear the ones I have until they fall apart. I have some shoe goo to repair the soles. What I hate is when the insides shred while the outsides are still useable. I have actually re-lined my shoes with fabric to get more use out of them.
I prefer moccasins for around the house, but the sidewalks and driving a car is too rough on them.
When they take on a shape that they did not have when you bought them, it’s time to replace your shoes.
Seriously, too many people wear shoes for far too long.
You may not care, but we are judging you by those shoddy things (pun intended).
When there’s a hole in the sole or it starts to tear where everyone can see it?
@breedmitch – well if there’s nothing wrong with them prior to that, there’s no reason to throw them out.
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