It’s that time of year again. You know the time when you don’t want to do it but you have to. I’m talking about spring cleaning and it is not something I look forward to but each year it never fails to roll around and when it does, I moan and groan but there is no running away from it.
I’m a clothes horse but that aside, shoes are not my passion but I do have plenty of them. How many? Hard to tell but they seem to have multiplied since I last looked in my shoe closet. They must have had babies! How else can I explain this phenomenon. I don’t think I spend much money on shoes but I do have one or more pairs for each & every occasion.
Imelda Marcos put it this way. “When I left the Philippines, people looked in my closets hoping to find skeletons but all they found were shoes. I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
That’s a whole lot of shoes. I can hear the men asking, “WHY?!!” Yours is not to reason why but to accept that women and shoes go hand in hand. It is not just a protective covering on our feet but something other-worldly. Just ask Carrie Bradshaw, she knows her shoes and HOW!
Here are some of her quotes on her love obsession with shoes, especially Manolo Blaniks.
“The fact is, sometimes it’s really hard to walk in a single woman’s shoes. That’s why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.” Carrie Bradshaw
I do agree that shoes do make your life a tad more fun.
“I have this little substance abuse problem…..Expensive footwear.” Carrie Bradshaw
A pair of Manolo Blaniks start out at $800 and that’s the sale price. They can run into thousands of dollars. Mind-boggling? Definitely but telling it to a woman who loves her Blaniks will not make her see reason. Mr. Big knows. He had to take second place and when it came to Carrie’s shoes, she had only eyes for them! She put it this way.
“MEN, I may not know, but SHOES, shoes I know,” and she further added, “I’ve spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live? I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes!”
I don’t plan to live in my shoes so I’m going through my closets with a vengeance and if I haven’t worn them in two years, out they go! Not without a struggle and a tear in my eye of course.
I found one pair which sparkles and I’m going to hold on to those.
“Shoes can change your life, just ask Cinderella.”
I haven’t given up hope on finding Prince Charming yet and just in case he shows up, I’m saving the sparkly ones for that super special occasion.
Dream on? Yes, well dreams are made up of stardust and all things nice and a girl can hope, can’t she? Until then, it’s time to bag up those unwanted and over-excessive pairs of shoes and hope they’ll find a new home and make someone else’s eyes sparkle for a change.
To tell you the truth, I’ve freed up space and those empty spaces are beckoning. Afterall,
“Calling all women, you can never have too many shoes.”
I’m putting the brakes on because my feet can carry just so many shoes and it’s time to declutter and breathe again.
Breathing out with a sigh of relief……..
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