Retiring Shoes (Read 924 times)

Last week on two consecutive PM runs my knees and shins started to hurt. But in the AM my legs were fine running twice as long. I quickly determined that the shoes I was wearing in the PM were about dead. I made the painful decision to retire that pair. And so they sat at home with their tattered shoe lace ends and frayed linings; well worn and no longer bright white. One shoe lies on its side, too tired to sit upright. DW asks "when you are going to throw those out?" "How can I just toss them in the garbage like junk mail or uses napkins? I have an emotional attachment to these shoes. We have spent 500 miles of sweating together. We have run through snow, rain, and ice. Sunny day, cloudy days. Treadmills, sidewalks, roads, and trails. Part of my soul is in those shoes." "You're very weird" DW replies. And so I grabbed them just to get them out of sight and threw them in my trunk where four pairs of previously retired shoes live in peace and harmony among my car cleaning stuff and a few Bar exam study guides I can't force myself to throw away (lot of blood, sweat, and tears in those babies too). As a consequence my trunk has an aroma of feet and Armour All. Nice!

Now your soul shoes can help you mow the lawn and stuff. Keep up the great work, dude.

That would be a reason for me to keep them inside, but we live in a condo and I, therefore, do no yard work.

I have the same problem. I have old shoes hogging up space in the shoe cabinet. Too much attachment and memories to throw them out as well. I just bought 2 pairs of new NB shoes, so I guess I had better throw out 2 old pairs right away to make room for the new shoes. I wonder when my husband is going to say something about the numbers of shoes I have when he has only 5 pairs total.

Consider this: http://shoes4malawi.wordpress.com/

Yep, it was hard for me to let go of my first car, too - a 1982 white Camaro (the first year they updated the body). Oh, I loved that car! Its randomly-assigned license plate number was ZYP-989. We drove it all the way from Texas to Maine when we moved up here. Unfortunately, though, it struggled when we would try to drive through a snowstorm to get to a ski resort. We sold it and bought a pickup truck. I heard that the kid who bought it wrapped it around a tree.

First I throw mine in the washer and then take them to school so my kids can practice tying them. They think that it's fun for some reason. MTA the shoes and not the cars....

Why dont you take your shoes to the nearest nike store? I think they will take them for their recycling program. They take the old shoes and make them into tracks for high schools. At least you would be giving back to the community..... I havent done it yet, but I heard it through the grapevine (ha! I think this song was just playing on the radio at work, which is why i subconciously typed it)