Arrrg I have cleaned them out recently so I just have a few.

Ankle boots: 4

Sneakers: 7

House Slippers: 8 they hafta match pj's

Flats: 4

Sandals: 6

Heels: 12

One pair of Ughs

Moni, I love your boot rack and Birkenstock collection!

I haven't counted my shoes. I have shoes. I wouldn't even count the old dead ones I use for walking in the mud at the side of the house. Most of my good shoes are in shoe drawers and boxes at the top of my closet. They're mostly old. Since I mostly work at home, nowadays, I generally just wear slippers--and would go barefoot if I could. :) I have several pairs each of sandals and clogs that are my put something on your feet shoes, and the too high clogs that raise my shoulders for leaning into the rolling pin. Plus rain shoes, rain boots, party flats and... at least a dozen pair handy in the hall closet or boot tray. I have a lot of shoes. I just don't have any occasion to wear my very prettiest shoes so they sit up there in their drawers becoming classics. :)

I am retired and avoid wearing heels, so one of my chores is to get rid of all my heels. I just don't want to wear them again, even for dressy occasions. I plan to box them up and give them to a charity resale shop.

You are making me feel much better. I'm not home at the moment so can't count, but it's way too many. Now I feel that I'm in good company.

Sheila, you make a lot of sense. I have only one outfit to wear the white heels with... and might have to see about that other pair... if there is nothing to wear it with, it will go too.

You just wanted to show us your neat closet organizer so we could all be envious of it...right? HAHA! That really is awesome! I have way too many shoes to spell out but I only wear a half dozen of them...HA! Right now it's mostly boots, SNOW BOOTS! ARGH!

Five pairs of shoes.....4 are Crocs....if you can call them shoes. 1 pair of sneakers. 2 pair of western boots......and 3 pair of rubber boots. I have feet like a duck. They are as wide as they are long....crocs are the most comfortable to wear around here. They are ugly, but I don't care.

Arkansas Girl, the white shelves were there.. shoes fit so much better, after I added the additional shelves. :)

After I quit working I got one extra shelf, and now, with tossing some shoes I might spread my Birkenstocks out.

Well I am not as bad now as I once was. I no longer have any heelsheels at all, got rid of those things but I still have probably a hundred in all. I admit that I have a shoe and purse problem lol. Lately I live in Skechers they are soso comfortable. I have sandals, boots, dress shoes, flip flops, uggs, water shoes, I even have some with individual toes. A few pairs of crocs too. Some very expensive, some from thrift stores, and anything in between lol. I used to have an awesome collection of boots, lots of cowboy boots I used to only wear those they were great for supporting my no arch feet. Living in Oklahoma and Colorado they fit in great. I have kept a few of the very special expensive ones but have slowly been givinggiving away the collection. I can't wear any of them so it doesn't make sense to keep them. I don't have a dedicated shoe closet in this house and I wish I did.

OH yeah I forgot about my rubber boots, and muck boots!

I ruined my Achilles heels exercising on a Nordic Track Ski Machine in the 90's and all my shoes have to be slides/clogs/sandals/mules without a back. Gave up high-heels in the 1980's.

Marilyn_c - Crocs were my go-to shoes AND sandals when my plantar fasciitis was at it's worst (before going gluten-free - which cured it). I always called my short wide feet - peasant feet - but duck feet will work (LOL).

2 pr. New Balance 801 (slides - athletic shoes - one old, one new)

2 pr. Fit Flop Goh Moc (suede, one pr. black, one pr. navy - 5-years old)

2 pr. Clarks (dressy leather slides) one navy, one black - 10-years old)

1 pr. Klogs - tan (5-years old)

1 pr. black suede L. L. Bean Mary Jane's (4-years old)

Cougar Snow Boots - purchased in 1976

Rain boots - purchased in 1985

Born b.o.c. sandals - tan pr. and bone pr. (dressy - 6-years old)

4 pr. Fit Flop sandals (various colors 3-5 years old)

2 pr. Crocs (my indoor "shoes" - navy pr. and black pr. - old)

2 pr. Crocs Sandals - white pr. and black pr.

1 pr. of garden clogs and several pairs of old Croc-type shoes used outdoors

3 pr. good-quality slippers (for 10-years I was unable to walk barefoot due to plantar fasciitis)

I live in crocs :-) I call mine Flintstone feet, almost as wide as long.

I have a couple pair of hiking boots, 2 pairs of athletics, maybe 3 pairs of dressy flats and a couple pair of heels that I can no longer stand to wear (arthritis in my knees). A few pairs of house slippers. Not too many in the big scheme of things but some of them need to go away.

I won't even try to count all of them, but I have way more than I need!! I can no longer wear heels, so those were donated to charity, along with six pairs of almost new sandals that I no longer wear. It felt so good to donate those and get them out of my closet. Next on my list, is purging purses!! Moni, I really like your storage closet!

Oh my, I sure do not have shoes like you folks! I may have 4 or 5 pair at the most and that includes my everyday pair. I never pay much for my shoes either and I never have. I do not have foot problems either. I usually pay no more than ten dollars but usually around $5 for them. I do however still have my pair of leather cowboy boots I bought way back when I was about 14, they still fit. I do not wear them though. They are put away in a cedar chest.

Sue

Oh....let's not!! :). I have no idea the number of shoes and boots I have but I DO know it is way too high. Tons of sandals too although I did get rid of 4 pairs of them to goodwill with the other clothes, etc.

I love your boot rack. Brilliant.

Love your boot rack, where did you get it?

It's funny to me how, even though our shoe size largely doesn't change, our footwear habits do.

I ALWAYS wore heels, usually kitten heels and high heels were a rare occurrence. I could never really understand why others felt heels were painful...UNTIL I went through a long period of not wearing them.

I wore heels of some sort on a daily basis since I was 15 or so. Then I got pregnant with my first and my feet and ankles swelled up so much that I had to resort to flip flops; sorry, I still can't call them thongs because thongs are a type of underwear (one I also wore daily until pregnant.)

Since having her 8 years ago, heels are impractical on a daily basis and when I do wear them, I find that my feet hurt after awhile.

A lawyer friend of mine confirmed that you do indeed have to become adjusted to them or they hurt (she has to wear heels on a regular basis for court)

I counted my shoes and I've got around 55 pairs!!!

The breakdown is as follows

2 pair of cowboy boots

2 pair of black boots, one flat and one with a slight heel

2 pair of brown boots, one flat and one with a slight heel

8 pairs of tennis shoes, one is for hiking, one for exercising, and the rest are what I would call fashionable lace up flats

8 pair of ballet flats in assorted colors/styles; comfy slip on shoes with enough variety to match to almost any outfit

The rest are equally divided between heels, wedges, flip flops and house shoes.

Most of the heels are either kitten heels or wedges, I only have maybe 5 pairs of true high heels.

A large portion of the flip flops have a raised heel, I truly find it to be the most comfortable for me.

The house shoes are failed attempts at replacing THE pair I had years ago.

Sometimes I feel bad about how many shoes I own, then I look at my bestie who owns such a large quantity that they won't all fit in her closet and she had to buy a floor to ceiling shoe rack that sits in her room to house the rest and I don't feel so bad.

Every time I think about culling the heels (the only ones I don't wear on a frequent basis) I'm reminded of the special events that have occurred over the past year, weddings,funerals, special luncheons for my husband's work, etc, and...since they don't take up much room, I figure it is better for me to store my variety of heels for the special occasions then it is to have to rush out and find a new pair.

I already paid for the ones I own, some of them over 15 years old, but I have enough variety that I haven't needed to buy shoes for an occasion in over 15 years.

So, to recap, I haven't purchased heels in years but I maintain my current stock for its (albeit rare )usefulness.

Since I had kids, my daily footwear has been flip flops, ballet flats, house shoes at home and boots when its really cold.

Those (except for house shoes) have been regularly maintained/updated so that I still have shoes to match every outfit.

I also still own about 8 formal dresses and the shoes that match them are carefully stored with them. I don't count those in my shoe stock though.

I bought that bootrack eons ago, I think from Lillian Vernan. It had a shelf above it, that I had to take off, to use it at this location. Check out amazon, RACK EM Racks

RACK EM Racks 4 Pair Boot Rack - Wall Mounted

I don't even want to count - I like shoes plus now I have some foot problems, so I'm always looking for the "perfect" pair of shoes that doesn't hurt and can fit my inserts. I have a set of wire shelves behind the closet door that hold my shoes and purses (we won't talk about those) and I have too many since I've worn the same pair of Merrell clogs most of the winter. I am a shoeacholic

I'm not counting. I'm not extravagant about buying shoes--and in fact all were purchased at extreme discount out of season because I like good shoes but can't afford to pay a lot--but with a laughable amount of closet space in my old house I definitely have more than I can comfortably store.

I have a few pair of heels, but most of my shoes are practical: snow boots in various heights, cold weather booties, Lands' End All-Weather Mocs in several colors (two of these so old that they are house shoes only), etc.

I didn't own any fashionable boots until my cousin talked me into getting a pair this year when they all went on sale. I liked them so much that I now have three pair in different styles--proving we all can change at any age. But they were about 75% off! :-)

Hangs head in shame, I am a shoe addict. I just moved into my new house a few months ago and have unpacked 2 big boxes of shoes and sadly I have 4 more big boxes in the garage waiting to be unpacked once I get shoe racks and a closet organizer in place. And with all those shoes still packed what have a done? Went out and bought like 4 new pair since I have been here. Guess I should join SSA (shoe shopper anonymous)