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Saturday, November 03, 2007

you can never have too many shoes, right?

Remember this disaster?


I'm embarrassed to say this is how I've been living.

I've started attempting to tame the monster. Today's project was to organize the shoes.

There are now 20 pairs of summer shoes and sandals in an under-the-bed box. I've got nearly as many pairs slated to be given away or trashed.

The remaining shoes are now neatly arranged in my closet.

Dress shoes and flats are in the rack behind the door:


shoe closet - after

Boots, sneakers (casual and athletic) and canvas skimmers are in the closet:


shoe closet - after

Not shown: on the other side of the closet, I'm hanging onto a few pairs of Doc Martens from my early post-college days ... I do still wear them as snowboots!

I still have a few more items that I need to find homes for, but that will come with the rest of the closet organization, hopefully!

Today, I am thankful for shoes!
If you love shoes, too, check out the NoBloShoeMo Flickr pool!

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11 Comments:
At 7:08 PM, November 03, 2007, Blogger BethanyWD said...

Nice job - did you find any shoes that you forgot that you had? That's happened to me before.

 
At 9:10 PM, November 03, 2007, Anonymous boogiemum (www.boogiemum.com) said...

Wow, great job organizing! Can you come over and help me, please ? :)

 
At 1:11 AM, November 04, 2007, Anonymous She Likes Purple said...

I think we should be shoe best friends. I love the red heels.

 
At 1:45 AM, November 04, 2007, Blogger meloukhia said...

I heart your shoe collection.

And, er, I am embarrassed to admit that I never thought of storing out of season shoes, rather than cluttering my shoe rack with them. That is a really good idea.

 
At 9:21 AM, November 04, 2007, Anonymous Anitra said...

Ahhh... a gal after my own heart... look at all those shoes! I'm drooling. Do you have the same problem with socks? I LOVE SOCKS.

 
At 3:21 PM, November 04, 2007, Blogger merrymishaps said...

Bethany: This time around, I don't think I had any surprises, but I have found shoes that I had forgotten about in previous clean-ups!

boogiemum: You do realize I'm cleaning up a new spot every day in November? My organizational skills can't be that good if I have at least 30 messes to deal with!

meloukhia: I wouldn't have, either. I got the idea from the NoBloShoeMo folks in their shoe-storing discussion! If I keep buying shoes, the rarely-worn dress shoes are going to have to be stored, too!

anitra: Socks aren't a problem. Just shoes!

I may "accidentally" buy some more shoes today since Rack Room is the same shopping center as Bed Bath & Beyond and Ann Taylor LOFT, where I need to go today ...

 
At 8:48 PM, November 04, 2007, Anonymous summer said...

I"m jealous of your shoes and I love the new design.

 
At 10:14 AM, November 05, 2007, Blogger Nap Warden said...

I am a shoe junkie...I'm am trying to do the "one in, one out" plan...it's not working;)

 
At 10:29 AM, November 05, 2007, Blogger merrymishaps said...

Unless I'm replacing something specific, I don't even try the one in / one out method!

Though now that I've got them all organized, it's going to be tough.

 
At 5:13 AM, November 06, 2007, Blogger Cecily said...

Wow! That's fantastic! Amazing! You're incredible!

 
At 5:20 PM, October 28, 2008, Anonymous Marvene said...

Good words.

 

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