When I moved to San Francisco after college, I considered eating beans all month so that I could afford my passion for shoes.
My problem was that they all looked good on me! I have a size 6 shoe and that's usually the display model size so I get that instant gratification because I don't even have to wait for someone to go in the back and find my size.
Here's the point. If you are going to invest in nice shoes, you need to protect and organize them. Colorado is really dusty, so my dreams of having a glamorous, open-air shoe room just isn't realistic (I guess the dust isn't the only reason for that). Rather than keeping the original boxes, which don't match and all the sizes are different, I like placing each pair in one of these plastic boxes from the Container Store and labeling them.
Here are the benefits:
*You can stack them
*Organize them by Designer, Type, and Color
*The boxes are clear so you can see your shoes and they create and open, clean feeling in your closet.
*These labels are erasable so can fix labeling mistakes and update labels if you replace a pair of shoes
*Your fabulous shoes stay dust-free and organized!
My step-mom and I still trade shoes and I can't help but get a little smirk on my face when I think about the fact that both of my sister's feet are too big to share with us... he-he.
4 comments:
You are hilarious - love the bean pic. The boxes are a great idea! I have so many shoes that have been scuffed/mashed by just being crammed in my closet (and seeing poor Jimmy's with snubbed shoe noses is not cool)
Ditto - on the picture!!! You are the organization queen Krafty!
Ditto on the picture - I hope you are framing it! You are the organization queen Krafty!
I've seen her eat the beans. It ain't pretty. But she looks good in those heels, so I ain't complainin'... rock on, Krafalicious!
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