Shoes

[azurelunatic]

Sis is hard on her work shoes, incredibly so. She wore out a pair of Doc Marten's in six months (the sort with the year guarantee) just by wearing them at work doing the normal things she does.

I had my mother send me my toughest pair of hiking boots, inherited from a former college roommate who didn't want them anymore (one eyelet was broken off) and Sis managed to demolish them in a scant four months. They've got duct tape soles now, and I looked at that and I said, "Nope, you're not wearing those."

She's got my black steel toed sneakers to beat the hell out of now, the shoes I got for work in the bakery when my old blue and white sneakers got thrashed. I love those shoes, and they saved my toes more than once, countless times, when I was a cashier -- shoppers at Sam's Club, running their carts right into my toes -- thank the gods for steel toed sneakers.

Sis expects to beat the hell out of them in a week, just like she expected to beat the hell out of the hiking boots in a week -- I expect they'll last just long enough for us to save up money for a decent pair of shoes for her.

Comments

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Is it just the soles she's demolishing? (The most likely portion to wear out on any shoe.) Because if so, wouldn't it make a hell of a lot more sense to get the soles REPLACED rather than continually buying new shoes? Check out some shoe repair shops. More than one. See if one of them can keep her in shoes for cheaper than buying new ones constantly.

Baby needs new shoes

[azurelunatic]

By the time the soles are gone, the tops of the shoes are also in exceptionally bad condition from all the crud that gets spilled on them. The stuff that they use to get the grease off of concrete floors is Not Good For Shoes, and neither is the grease...

By the time the soles are gone, the upper parts of the shoes look like something you'd find under the bed of the sort of teenage male who stores old nasty snacks, dead rats, and adult magazines under his bed, and also lets his dogs sleep there.

A good idea, but unfortunately not practical.

Re: Baby needs new shoes

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

//sigh// I tried!

A Trying Day

[azurelunatic]

Yep, thanks.