Shoe polish

trifles

I use the cheapest hair conditioner I can find to polish shoes using an old bit of sponge pad cut from one too worn to wash dishes:DYou could cut a piece to fit round your polish bottle nozzle to use up the polish.

pigpen

I don't bother.. mine and OH's are suede.. black and navy and the children trash them or outgrow them fast enough it isn't worth the bother.. I wonder if the round sponge filters for fishtanks would work as a replacement spomge though.. or a makeup sponge cut to size and glued in.. can't hurt to try.. and next time don't press so hard to spread it about.. it is a sponge not a yard brush!

flipperNI_2

building_with_lego wrote: »

Any chance of a link to the stuff you use, flip? Pretty pleeeease? I've found tyre shine and bumper shine but not sure if it's the right stuff. I find a monthly polish works a treat for school and work shoes but I like the sound of "embarrassingly shiny". May make DS's shoes last a little longer too.

Hi any Bumper or cockpit cleaner will do. I have wurth cockpit cleaner at the minute, got at a car boot sale, its expensive to buy in a store. I have never tried the stuff out of poundland, must give it a go some time. Halfords have loads, i would buy the cheapest.:D

It is Great for Cast iron fireplaces also, but fire must be out as it is flammable.

This one looks ok

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_231511_langId_-1_categoryId_165651

candygirl

I use baby wipes:)

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as a little girl my Dad always cleaned our shoes last thing at night and they were always lined up ready for school in the morning He was an ex Scots gurdsman so to him clean shoes were a must.As my brothers grew older it became their 'job' and woe betide any child who went out with mucky shoes.My son in law cleans his four biys shoes with the stuff from the bottle with the sponge on top and of it wears out or the polish gets a bit dry he will give it 15 seconds in the microwave to soften it up and bung it in a small screwtopped jar and just put it on with a bit of kitchen roll, he adds a drop of olive oil for moisture if its a bit too dried out.With 4 messy sons you have to make shcool shoes last and when they come home from school they put their trainers on which get washed in my washing machine when mucky as I have a 'sports shoe' wash on it.

Alison_Funnell

In our house it was my job as a child to polish shoes. At weekends the shoes were covered in polish, left over night and buffed the next day. My grandad when he taught me swore blind it was better because the polish is absorbed a little in to the top layer of leather and creates a more waterproof layer.

I don't know about that but I still polish them the same way. Only once a week though, never daily otherwise I remember my gran who always tutted and complained about wasting polish (she was terrible for complaining about waste - too much so)

spike7451

GlynD wrote: »

Now I know why matelots boot were always rubbish - CHERRY BLOSSOM??????????

Unbelieveable.

Come on you Brown Jobs - put this man right! :cool:

Kiwi Parade Gloss all the way!:rotfl:

Cherry Blossom contains too much wax & is harder to work with (as I was told by my DI,Sgt Davies, at RAF Swinderby in 1984...)

Saying that,we used a coating on Tornado GR1 Weapon Pylons called Flexane.You painted it onto the leading edges of the pylons & it dried to a thick,shiny hard skin...Because it was shiny,the scuffers (RAF Police) & other shiny bums (admin clarks) used to PAY us to coat their toecaps with the stuff....So on any day,the was usually a few pairs of shoes drying in the squadron role bay...20DM a pair (about £6) into the squadron beer fund thank you very much!!:T

GlynD

spike7451 wrote: »

Kiwi Parade Gloss all the way!:rotfl:

Cherry Blossom contains too much wax & is harder to work with (as I was told by my DI,Sgt Davies, at RAF Swinderby in 1984...)

Saying that,we used a coating on Tornado GR1 Weapon Pylons called Flexane.You painted it onto the leading edges of the pylons & it dried to a thick,shiny hard skin...Because it was shiny,the scuffers (RAF Police) & other shiny bums (admin clarks) used to PAY us to coat their toecaps with the stuff....So on any day,the was usually a few pairs of shoes drying in the squadron role bay...20DM a pair (about £6) into the squadron beer fund thank you very much!!:T

Quite a good DM exchange rate in your day then.

spike7451

GlynD wrote: »

Quite a good DM exchange rate in your day then.

About 3.19DM to the pound...Beer in the NAAFI was 1DM,but that was RAF Bruggen in the 80's...:D

GlynD

spike7451 wrote: »

About 3.19DM to the pound...Beer in the NAAFI was 1DM,but that was RAF Bruggen in the 80's...:D

I was at 4 Armoured Brigade, Muenster at that time and do you know I can't remember the price of anything! Of course it was cheaper in camp but I don't even remember German prices being that high although I do remember that LOA was about 8 marks a day - am I right?