What to do with old shoes? (Read 1029 times)

I cut my grass in mine or relegate them as fishing shoes. I don't actually use them as fish bait, I don't think I would catch anything, but rather, WEAR them when I am fishing.

I don't have personal experience with any of these programs, but found this general listing: http://www.runtheplanet.com/shoes/selection/recycle.asp

Lawn mowing.

I use them at the gym... Cheaper than buying cross-trainers and more comfortable... and the lessened cushioning doesn't seem to affect me on a treadmill or elliptical.....

i donate some, keep some for rafting/camping/dog walking/gardening shoes. also the ones i've only ever run in never really get smelly, so i have in the past cleaned up the outsides and piled a bunch of pairs into a giant basket for a big object-object matching work in my classroom. sometimes it can actually be pretty challenging-- from year-to-year, some models only change very slightly. i've had kids checking out the wear patterns on the soles trying to make a match when they weren't sure. it's been a pretty popular work in the past before (lots of visual discrimination and detail discrimination skill involved, reinforces Left & Right, appeals to the tactile sense also and the naturalist sense of order, etc, and it ties into our nutrition/exercise/health studies, and can be tied into topics on measuring distance, mileage, etc), but i have to feel the parents out on that sort of work year-to-year. sometimes the parents are way more skeeved out about the handling of ms. michele's old running shoes than the kids are, ha. i can't believe i am admitting i've done that to anyone outside of montessori. but y'all are runners. maybe you'll understand my sneaker-love, too.

Mine become every day shoes, cross training shoes, or they go to Goodwill if they still look decent and have enough life left in them to walk around in.