This post was actually written back in June, but I never posted it because I was waiting to take a picture of the shelves written about below. However, my closet is in such a state that photos would not be appropriate at this time. This is a prerequisite for a future post.
For some reason, my school did a high school-type end of year vote, like the ones we used to do as teenagers for the year book. With categories like most popular, cutest boy/girl, best athlete, etc. 20-30 year olds giggled as they quickly filled out the surveys so their vote would count.
Much to my surprise I received one of the honors...No, it wasn't most popular, most smart, or most likely to succeed. It also wasn't best dressed, cutest girl, or drama queen. No, instead, it was a highly sought out honor.
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MOST SHOES!
Yes, I'm serious. Most shoes. Well, yes, I have always prided myself on the number of shoes I have. I do love shoes and have a lot of them. In fact, my closet is filled with them. When I moved into my new house, my dad even built several shelves for housing my many shoes. A couple of years ago, I read an article in one of my favorite magazines "Real Simple". (Just a funny side note on the magazine...My friend Robyn, who is kind of a hippy, read the magazine while visiting. She was horrified when the magazine had an article about how to make your life easier with chores and maintenance around the house. It sounded like a good article as she started reading it, but it quickly annoyed her that one of their "tips" was to "hire a maid". I don't know what she was so upset about. I think that is a super idea.)
Anyways, back to the shoe storage. Each pair of shoes is neatly housed inside a clear plastic shoe box. On top of that, I have taken a picture of each pair of shoe and attached it to the inside of the box showing through so I can see which pair of shoes is on the inside. Genius, I know! It is a shoe masterpiece if you will. Shoe storage that Carrie Bradshaw might admire, even though my boxes are not filled with Jimmy Choos or Pradas, but knock-offs instead.
So I have a lot of shoes. However, I was under tremendous pressure this morning choosing the shoes for my ensemble this morning. How can the girl who was voted "most shoes" wear the same pair of shoes two days in a row. You see, I am a teacher who is on her feet most of the day. Fancy smancy shoes are no good for standing all day long so I wear the same few pairs of cute, but sensible shoes, day after day. This morning, I felt bad almost about wearing the same pair of leather flip flops that I wore the day before and will probably wear again tomorrow. Oh, it's so overwhelming. I just want my supporters to know that I do, in fact, have a lot of shoes, even though I don't wear a new pair to work each day, and I will make myself go shoe shopping immediately, just to honor their support.
Okay, we really must have a picture of your shoes!
ReplyDeleteI just came over from Grandma J's to see the Green Bag experiment....and saw that you are a teacher...me too....and I have lots of shoes too....no cool storeage idea like yours though...mine just pile up and fall off the shoe rack...and I stack them back up. Most are Converse, Tevas and more tennies in different colors than one can imagine. And my shoes last forever...that's another reason I have so many :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Summer!
Pictures...we need pictures. I can't even imagine your organization skills. I thought I was anal, but I guess you take the cake...or in this case, the prize.
ReplyDeleteCan I call you Imelda? :)
I do have to admit that it disappoints me a bit that I don't see more of these famous shoes. Comfort schmomfort!
ReplyDeleteSince Jason says you are not so much a bird person, I thought I'd offer you some different prize choices:
ReplyDelete* We could send two bed nets to Africa to prevent malaria.
(www.nothingbutnets.org)
* Serve a child in Sudan lunch every school day for 6 months.
(http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/give/gift-catalog/school-lunches/)
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*Part of the cost for summer camp for a kid in Kenya.
(http://www.passportstore.org/product.php?productid=16145&cat=255&page=1)
Hey, I left you a post but accidentally put it in the Random Thoughts comment section...check it out....I think you and Jen and Jason are near each other, right? (not sure who else)..maybe someone would be up for a fun time.
ReplyDeleteYou are so funny....you know, it took me a while before I "got" your comment on my blog....and, just for added fun, I am Italian, and you can ask Grandma J about "the family" (and who wound up in jail!)
ReplyDeleteHSH isn't just Italian, she's Sicilian....Jail? ummmm more like breaking rocks in the hot sun.
ReplyDeleteOh, and FYI, I'm HSH's Irish.French half...just for the record.
ReplyDeleteOMG Pumpkin....I just noticed you are an INXS fan, ME TOO! I went to most of the tapings of Rockstar: Inxs. I guess Ive become one of those old-ladies-who-join-fanclubs...like the blue-haired Wayne Newton fans (do you know the type??)...the last few INXS concerts, I had a back stage pass and hung out with the band post-concert...next time they are in town, we should go, and you can be a Super Fan with me :)
ReplyDeleteAND, Grandma J is lying...I think he got one of those "posh" resort-like jail gigs.
ReplyDeleteWhile GJ is not my Italian half, the Italian half will not even mutter the M word. Grandma J is the only one that will talk....I didnt realize what the M did, until I saw my "family" on the front page of the papers in the early 1980's.