Jun. 1, 2006 - It works for me

As I was visiting a blog last week I read this question: “What do you do about all your kids shoes?”  Kim C. of Life in a shoe: the methods and madness of a mother of 7 has 7 girls and her answer is that they own only two pairs per child and that helps them keep track of the shoes.

I thought I would share what we do because it works so well for us.  While we have fewer children, we have more shoes.  With the mud around here we need boots, sandals for the sun, church shoes, play shoes… anyway it adds up.  What we do is keep ALL our shoes in the laundry room.  I have shoe racks in there and I do not allow kids shoes to enter any other room of our house.  Whatever door the kids come in, they take off their shoes and take them to the laundry room.  Of course occasionally we will find a shoe in another room (especially because the toddler loves to steal shoes!), but we all know right where it goes.  When it is time to go, we know that the shoe we need (and its match) will be in the laundry room. 

So if you find yourself traipsing all over the house looking for lost shoes, this might work for you.  In Hawaii, they leave them right outside the door.  So the shoes never go inside the house.  And of course in Japan all shoes are kept right inside the doorway.  Don’t worry, if you come over, I won’t ask you to take off your shoes, --it’s just a kid thing.  Unless you start asking me to find your shoes for you, then you might have to start keeping them in the laundry room too!

Have a great day! 

~Amy