Where do your shoes live???

**OceanPrincess** · January 16th, 2013, 08:27 PM

So yeah, thats my question. Where do your shoes live? I'm talking the everyday shoes, not the special ones that only get worn every now and then - those ones I've got in boxes or shoe holders in wardrobes.

Yours? Your partners, if you have one? Your kids, if you have any? All in the same spot? Different spots??

What about if your partner has grotty work shoes - do they go somewhere special?

I seem to be constantly tripping over shoes and I'm getting sick of it...

**Catastrophic** · January 16th, 2013, 08:32 PM

Mine stay in my car under my seat (I don't drive with shoes on) ... The girls usually in the car or on the shoe rack at the front door...

**fionas** · January 16th, 2013, 08:39 PM

The girls' shoes are in a wicker basket under the hallway table near the front door. Mine are in my walk-in robe.

**Emma09** · January 16th, 2013, 08:40 PM

My everyday shoes are on the floor in my walk in wardrobe.
DH's are usually in the middle of the lounge room floor

until I move them to the wardrobe 1000000 times a day!
DD's are in a huge box in her room- she has a large shoe collection

She also changes shoes 15 times a day and I'm always on her back about putting them away.

Can you tell I also get annoyed about tripping over shoes?

**OceanPrincess** · January 16th, 2013, 08:50 PM

A basket near the front door could work! The kids put theirs under the hall table thing near the front door but there's no room for ours there and DH's are too dirty and stinky to be there. So his are at the back door which means I'm constantly tripping over them to take the washing in and out.

So annoying! Wonder what Ikea has to offer??

**~Kim~** · January 16th, 2013, 09:07 PM

The ones we wear all the time are in a trug next to the front door.
The kids others live in their wardrobe and mine and DHs live under the spare bed.
Police boot stay outside at all costs....they go places that do not ever need to be tracked into my house.

**Rowellen** · January 16th, 2013, 09:09 PM

My kids have a box in their room but most of the time they are scattered all over the house. DH's are either next to the front door, back door or scattered all over the house. Mine are scattered all over the house. Do you see a pattern there lol! DD loves to wear my shoes so despite my best efforts, they don't stay put. I do try to keep them tidy but I don't have a place for them now that we bought a new bed & there is no gap to be able to put things under it. I need to work on that lol!

**Ca Plane Pour Moi** · January 16th, 2013, 09:14 PM

Everyday shoes - by front door. I keep a supply in downstairs loo, by the front door, so I don't trip over them. Shoes rarely worn in ky wardrobe, work shoes in the car as I drive in flats.

**Novella** · January 16th, 2013, 09:18 PM

DD1 has a shoe rack, she is very organised and they are always stacked away in oreder. DD2 has a basket, if I remind her she sometimes puts her shoes in there. DD3 isnt walking so has a few in a box

. Dh leaves his work boots on the front porch. We have a plastic tub by the backdoor for gumboots and crocs. My shoes tend to end up in the lounge room plus there is a plastic tray in the grage for grotty shoes/thongd from sports/the beach/fishing until they are dry and can be shaken off.

I have two racks fprm shoes in the wadrobe, DH has one, mine is overflowing

Hmm seems we have a lot of shoes in a lot of places!

**kitten2b** · January 16th, 2013, 09:18 PM

they are supposed to be in the shoe cupboard but usually all over the house

**little_O** · January 16th, 2013, 09:48 PM

My mum has one from ikea, that sits in the garage entry for shoes. It a stand up cupboard that has little pull down compartments for shoes.

Mine go on the shoe rack in the bottom of our cupboard. Good ones are in their boxes like you

**mumma~r** · January 16th, 2013, 10:55 PM

Our work shoes are always left outside on the front porch, everyday shoes are in a IKEA shoe cabinet(i love it so much,I always have people ask where its from) and formal shoes in the wardrobe.

**Butterfly Dawn** · January 16th, 2013, 11:01 PM

By the front door we have a shoe rack. Everybody has a row. Slippers on the floor in front of the rack. Off season shoes live in a cupboard in the laundry. Any shoes not in these places go in the bin

**FabFiona** · January 17th, 2013, 04:49 AM

In the bin! Good call!

DH and I try to keep ours in our rooms. Boys are either in our bay window at the back where we often get changed or in their room. No shoes on the floor in living areas.

**sahbear** · January 17th, 2013, 05:52 AM

No dirty shoes here, so everyone's go onto a shoe shelf in their wardrobes.

**veus** · January 17th, 2013, 05:55 AM

By the front door we have a shoe rack. Everybody has a row. Slippers on the floor in front of the rack. Off season shoes live in a cupboard in the laundry. Any shoes not in these places go in the bin

I like this idea. We have waay too many shoes in the house. They live on a shoe rack by the front door. But DH's shoes never makes it to there for some reason, it JUST misses everytime by less than 1 metre. One day the shoes might end up missing completely & end up in the bin with some help.

**foreva*your*mummy** · January 17th, 2013, 06:27 AM

We have a leather looking LARGE. Box thing with a hinged lid that is padded on top so it workers as a seat as well. My kids lay on it so it is big and all our shoes go inside. Got it from the reject shop and love it. Don't have to look at shoes on the floor!

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · January 17th, 2013, 06:29 AM

Oh god.... on the bottom of the fish tank stand in the kitchen, in the lounge under an old coffee table, the girls are under their bed but they used to have two shelves on the bookshelf (over 50 pairs of shoes

).
I've culled their shoes as they have both had growth spurts.. DP's seem to land wherever they get taken off...
I'm over tripping over them too.