What: size 8.5 white/pink flip flopsFrom: Talbots (outlet)
Purchased: ~1998
Cost: $6.50
So 23 days in and I struggle a bit with really casual shoes. We headed out to the baseball park on a 95 degree day and I needed something super easy and cool to wear. I rejected some shoes with heels and was a bit stymied, but then remembered these. I bought them a long time ago at the Talbots Outlet store, on a visit with my friend Kristen. They were marked $26 dollars, but 75% off. I only remembered they were super cheap (in my memory they were $8) - I've never worn them and the price tag was still on! They were a little big, and then I had my orthotic/back issue, so they've been living in a box for the past 12 years or so. I had been thinking about trying to sell them on Craig's List, but they were a great choice. I probably should have sold them, but the challenge had to be met!
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UPDATES
- Pink sneakers: Here's the thing. People who keep things and people who get rid of things can never really understand each other. I simply cannot get rid of a perfectly good pair of shoes. It makes me slightly anxious (but what if I need them?) to think about discarding perfectly fine anything. And so, if I know you are a non-cluttered person and you say get rid of them with no analysis why, I am sorry to say I pretty much discount your opinion as you'd say that about any pair! I need reasons to get rid of them. TSM hit it - the heel overhang really is an issue. So, um, I will keep thinking about it. Though seriously? That pic from '07? I distinctly recall being dissatisfied with those shoes that day.
- strap sandals: I forgot to put a bottom line. Keeping. I wore them yesterday in the morning to walk to Target. Straps definitely tight in extreme heat, but sandals are cute. And all together now: Not that uncomfortable!
- overall: 23 days, 22 pairs of shoes, 1 definitely donated, 1 needs to be re-heeled, 1 undecided, 0 purchases, though 1 in consideration. And no worries about running out of options.
3 comments:
When you stop and think about it, you are your father's child to some extent. Except he can't throw or give away anything that he thinks he may have a use for in the next 10 or 20 years. Just look at our garage and his workshop!
I love this: "People who keep things and people who get rid of things can never really understand each other. I simply cannot get rid of a perfectly good pair of shoes. It makes me slightly anxious (but what if I need them?)"
Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes.
I have decided that you value having the shoes over having the extra space, which is why I don't say get rid of everything. But I'm serious, you cannot go around with biscuit heel. You just cannot. Think of the lovely woman with the foot 1/2 size smaller than you who would love those shoes.
This is fantastic. Keep it up.
It's true. You need a good reason and no more of the commands from me.
But would it surprise you to hear that I too was once a shoe fanatic? Don't know if I ever counted them but I was a shoe hoarder - I'm pretty light on shoes, am a size 6 (always find shoes in the sales) and it was not unknown for me to pay half my wages on a pair of shoes and eat beans and toast for a month because I had to have them.
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