When do you buy shoes for your kids?

*Louise*

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Mine have always had two pairs at a time: 'school' shoes and trainers. They wear trainers when not at school. And they keep them until the shoes fall apart, they grow out of them, or they lose one!

Yeah - kids never look after their stuff.

My son started the year with 8 school jumpers...he ended with just 3 :rolleyes:

5dogs

My kids just had a pair of New Rock boots, £175 each :eek:

Come back Clarks, all is forgiven

Lunar_Eclipse

amandada wrote: »

I buy what they need when they need it!

Yep me too. Shoes being no different to anything else really.

cheap_charlie

I buy throughout the year for casual wear but school shoes I usually get at Clarks in their winter sales - last year I got 2 pairs and a pair of boots for £50!

funky-footprints

mine get thier feet measured in september and have new shoes for the new term, and a new pairs of trainers. I dont do clarks though, my 2 have such wide feet ive always found start rite better. hopefully those pairs will see them through until christmas, they always get thier feet measured in october half term, when my mum buys them thier winter boots.

for spring term i get thier feet measured, at the end of the christmas holidays, if thier feet havnt grown and thier shoes are ok then they wear them until Easter term, in my son & daughters case thier september school shoes lasted them until Easter, but on wet days thier winter boots were worn to school. My son had new trainers for christmas.

At Easter i had thier feet measured agan, my sons hadnt grown and his school shoes were fine, he had Geox last september and they have worn very well, He had new trainers as they had taken a hammering. (3rd pair since september) My daughters feet had grown, so she had new school shoes and new trainers. they will last until end of summer term.

Ive just bought them crocs for the summer, both have ok trainers and ive treated my daughter to some lk's !

This summer my son needs football boots & rugby boots, (last summer I got both off freecycle) and at the end of the summer i will have to start all over, and now the baby needs shoes !!

ARGH !!

pange

i think a pair of crocs could be the best investment you can get, particularly for the spring/summer season, they're about £20. my daughter is still wearing the pair she had last year and they're still going strong! practical and comfortable

Woodyrocks

I do tend to buy a lot of Woody's shoes in the sales, january and summer, mostly from Clarks & Gap & M&S. What I also do is buy school shoes on ebay as needed as I know what size she takes in Clarks anyway.

Plimsoles come from Woolies and her trainers are bought by her trendy uncle, my brother, as I have been banned from getting her trainers as I am not cool enough to choose the right ones!

Woody's worst nightmare is crocs! I can see where she is coming from though - they are not cool in any colour lol

kunekune

We try to buy shoes more often than we manage to buy them. If your kids are GG and H fittings, and you go to Clarks, they will not sell you anything!!!! I think we probably go shoe shopping 3 times a year for school shoes, usually to Brantano after the repeated frustrations at Clarks - at least they are willing to let us buy them big for the extra width. Then we also get them trainers/sandals when they need them. Each child (aged 6 & 9) would go through 5-6 pairs of shoes over the year.

craftyfox

oh you lucky peeps who get away only buying shoes now and again - my no 1 son is a big lad and at the age of 9 has size 6 feet:eek: from the age of 15 months he had a new pair every 4 to 6 weeks because his feet grew so much, most of them were like new but we just couldn't get then on so we saved them up and took them all to the salvation army collections (so someone else might as well get a turn out of them) on the other side no 2 son is quite small for his age and a pair of shoes will last him 6 months;) must also add no 1 son is 4'6" tall (mum only 5'2" ):rotfl:

Carmina_Piranha_3

crafty i have kids like that - one grows slowly and the other grows fast. at the end of playgroup the kids come running over shouting 'mummeeeeee!' and hug their mum's legs but i get a proper waist hug because my boy is up to my bellybutton already and is 104cm at 2 years old, and a size 10.5 feet :rotfl:his like-a-bike is supposed to be from age 3 but is is already on the tallest setting :rolleyes:

but because his feet are so high and wide i have to buy him clarks etc. shoes, i haven't found anywhere cheaper and even clarks or start-rite can't supply him with trainers, wellies, plimsolls or slippers.

looking at the height chart it seems that he will be taller than me before he leaves primary school