What can I say, I love shoes. I have quite a few pairs, I think it was the mid 50s at last count. Some people think this is a lot, but really I could handle a few more pairs.
I remember hearing from a guy friend that you can tell how high maintenance a girl is by how many pairs of shoes she owns. 1-15= low maintenance, 15-30=manageable, 30+ high maintenance (basically stay away)! Then what does that make me? Ridiculously high maintenance? I don't think so! I have been told that I am quite low maintenance, I don't take a lot of time to get ready, I am not super demanding and I pay my own way. I really don't think this method of measuring works. And anyhow boys, do you really want a girl with only a couple pairs of shoes? Crunchy granola Birkenstocks, runners, a couple pairs of flip flops and one pair of heels? I don't think so! As much as my boyfriends complains about how my shoes take up the entire apartment he likes me to wear nice heels! What guy doesn't like seeing a girl in some high heels that make her bum look great? We can't always look as hot as you want us to if you don't let us have a good selection of shoes. So, as much as guys say they want a low maintenance girlfriend, they enjoy the benefits of it.
My only problem with all of these pairs of shoes is how to store them? I tried keep them in the boxes and labelling each one. This was a pretty good method because they stacked easily and kept the shoes in good shape, my problem with it was that I forgot about the pairs on the bottom of the stack. I've tried open shoe boxes where you put a few pairs in standing up, this way you can see them all but it kind of squishes them. I tried stacked bins behind the door, with each cubby full of one type of shoe. Ballet flats, sandals, closed toe heels, flip flops, pumps... This kind of worked but then I moved and there isn't that great space behind the door. Shoe racks are great but I would have to fill a whole room with shoe racks to hold my collection.
I think celebrities have it right, convert one of your 6 spare rooms into a shoe closet! Ah, if only. I guess I better win the lottery or marry rich.
This is Mariah Carey's closet, as crazy as she is, isn't it beautiful?!!!
2 comments:
My mother used to cut the sides off her shoe boxes to create a sort of shelf stacker.. so you still had your neat stack of shoe boxes but the sides removed for easy access & the ability to see the shoes. I suggest keeping them in some sort of colour code so you know when you need to find say brown shoes you can paruse that section... or by style.. same idea.
I know this is an older post, but I couldn't resist giving my two cents.
Here's what I do to manage my 60 or so pairs:
I bought a bunch of identical plain cardboard shoe boxes with lids from an online shipping supplies catalogue (ULine.com). Each time I buy a new pair, I take a quick pic of them and print it out on regular paper. I use a glue stick to slap it on the end of the box (when I reuse the boxes for a new pair, I can easily rip it off and replace it with the new pic). And I stack them by heel height, color and style in a way that makes sense to me.
I'm lucky to have a whole closet in my apartment to use to stack them up in. This method keeps them in good shape and easy to find and although I have to pull the boxes out from underneath each other in order to grab a pair on the bottom, and sometimes there are opened boxes all over my floor before I leave the house because I have trouble deciding... it's easy enough to clean up my indecisive mess because when there's a place for every shoe, every shoe has a place!!
It's a lovely system and while the shorter boys find my high heel shoe obsession annoying, the taller boys think it's cute. In my experience, relative height is more a factor than anything, in whether or not the male persuasion has issues with my shoe collection. I could get a rash of crap for saying that, but I'm only speaking from my experience.
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