My house really isn’t that tiny but with four of us who are hoarders we have WAAAYYYY too much stuff than is necessary. Anyhoo…I’m fed up with shoes. Where do you keep them? We have about 4 pairs each (wellies, trainers, boots and smart) - although I also have a pair of sandals, my wedding shoes and a second smart pair - but they are kept in my wardrobe. But with 16 pairs of shoes hanging around downstairs - where should I put them? At the moment we have a box by the back door which has wellies and muddy shoes in, a box under the stairs for trainers and the children’s school shoes go under their coat hooks in the hall. But I just get irritated with the box by the door and the ones under the coats as both areas look messy. We can’t fit anymore under the stairs.

Where do you keep yours?

When all is working well (i.e. this is what is supposed to happen but doesn’t often ) Wellies are propped upside down on the fence outside the back door, there is a basket inside the back door for whatever people are wearing that day and anything else should be in the bottom of the wardrobe, shoes should be taken upstairs at bedtime.

The reality is they are scattered through the house and we spend too much time looking for the lost half of a pair…

Nelly x

We have loads of shoes in our house, i keep most of them in those shoe tidies that hang on the back of a door you can fit 12 pairs of shoes in each one (or more if they are little shoes). I have one on the back of the downstairs toilet door and one on the bedroom door upstairs. As for wellies i have a high shelf near the back door where they are supposed to live

We also have box by the back door and another in the hall….it doesnt really work! We did have a shoe rack at one point but our dog just took them all off everyday!

Ok…not just me then! Hee hee. We are in the process of building a cover to put over our patio area directly outside our back door so maybe I can factor in a shelf out there to stand wellies. And maybe just get rid of the rest of the clutter our house is littered with with might help too!

x x x

A bamboo bookshelf, with a shelf each, in the hall - works really weel.  Things that aren’t being used for particular times of the year get put away upstairs.  Toddler reguladly tries on other people’s shoes, but no big deal…

We have a tall slim old bookcase in our hallway that we manage to fit (most) of our daily use shoes on.

Living in a caravan, the shoe situation was driving me nuts, so we bought a plastic trunk from a garden centre (the kind you put children’s outdoor toys in) and put all shoes and boots in there and site it outside the caravan door.  It’s not an ideal solution, espeically as the muddy boots go right on top of ordinary shoes -  - and in cold weather, the children were complaining that their shoes and boots were freezing, but there just wasn’t the room inside for so many pairs of shoes!!

In our old house, I got two large laundry baskets, one for shoes and one for boots as it was the most space efficient way of keeping them tidy.

I bought shoe hangers from the pound shop, the ones made from fabric, I could of sewn some easily I guess but didn’t think of that, anyway I have hung them on the bedroom doors and each boy has his own to keep his shoes, socks and gloves in, saves so much time trying to find things when we are going out, if they have put them in the hangers of course! My shoes/boots go under my bed, not ideal but out of the way, except my wellies which are forever by the back door so I can sort the chickens in the morning.

We have had about twenty different systems, and it always reverts to the same one (children’s system of choice) - throw shoes wherever you take them off (preferably in two different directions) and then later when asked to pick them up, hurl them into the hall to form a pile so large and wobbly it prevents the front door being opened fully and forms a trip hazard to anyone wishing to go upstairs…

We own a shoe rack.  Just all the shoes prefer to be on the floor.  *sigh*