Storing shoes tidily ?

morganlefay

I am trying (slowly) to declutter and have a LOT of shoes. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can store them without going and buying a really expensive rack or whatever. I need it to be some method that makes it easy to get them out but more importantly, easy to put them tidily away - not my favourite thing. My ideal would be to build something from stuff I have about the house (tho I am not brilliant with my hands.) I can sew, so could perhaps sew a racky thing - but really have no idea........

MoneysavingManxie

I just have a couple of plastic boxes that I can chuck them in. Its not exactly tidy but it is easy to put them away. I have them all in a big box on top of the wardrobe. :j

thriftlady_2

I have a similar system -it involves chucking them all in a cardboard box kept in the garage (which is integral to the house). It doesn't look very tidy, but then I can't see it 'cos it's in the garage.

Edit -this is used for all the family's everyday shoes, not for ones rarely worn.

mandy_moo_1

probably not much use to you now, but just after christmas i bought about 20 big shoe size boxes from wilkinsons...they were reduced to 50p each, and covered in gold paper....i stacked them in the bottom of my wardrobe, took a photo of the pair of shoes that was in each box and stuck it to the front of the box

lostinrates

Chucking them in boxes together is, IMO, bad for the shoes: the ones at the bottom get squashed and theyall risk scratching from heels of their neighbours etc.

I keep mine stacked in the box and draw a doodle of the shoe on a long side and front of the box so I can see without looking in or remembering the model name, what the shoe inside the box is. IME friends who don't keep their boxes are happy to dnate them. If you were feeling artisitc you could paint/cover the boxes: I just stck mine in a cupboard

nearlyrich

I have 3 IKEA hanging shoe racks in my cupboard on the landing and a stack of boxes with boots and special shoes in. I have got rid of the old ones but I still have far too many.

morganlefay

I've tried the cardboard box 'random' method, but the boxes (3 of them) are in the understairs cupboard where the HUGEST spiders live and I can't bear to go near them, and OH usually 'too busy' so I've been wearing the same pair of flip flops all 'summer'. I think the Ikea thingie, or labelled shoeboxes is the answer. Thanks for ideas, kind people. M

BritRael

That ikea thing sounds good. Every time I come in our front door I trip over about 20 pairs of my OH's bl**dy shoes laying scattered in the hallway!! grrr

Why do women need so many shoes???

littlepinkstars44

i have three big pink, plastic boxes full of shoes, that live under my bed.
Then my everyday shoes live in the bottom of my wardrobe

boredjellybean

our shoes are on a shelving unit on the landing & I store the children's ones in baskets under the sideboard so they can access them easily (the theory being they can put them away too!)

BB

deborah64

MoneysavingManxie wrote: »

I just have a couple of plastic boxes that I can chuck them in. Its not exactly tidy but it is easy to put them away. I have them all in a big box on top of the wardrobe. :j

Same here i,m afraid, 2 old recycling boxes in the cupboard in the porch.
Not much fun trying to find your shoes when there are 5 of you in the house