Nexus6
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Share your Thrift Store SHOE experiences!
I find that 99% of the shoes I find at thrift stores,
have 'stuff' trapped in the toe area.
Sock fibres, dust, etc all trapped in there, and along the side of the footbed.
Here are the Wee Leggity Beasties that live in this dust...
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en...h+Images&gbv=2
When I get a pair of thrited shoes, this is my procedure:
1)
I vacuum out the shoes.
2)
I always take a terry cloth white sock, turned inside-out,
and wet it with Vodka, and get in there to kill whatever is left living in the shoes.
3)
Clean the outsides with a damp cloth (WATER..not alcohol)
4)
Leather Lotion...let dry...polish...then into the shoe trees.
Despite my cleaning of the insides,
I am getting bitten by the Dust Mite Beasties.
Little dark 'dots' under my toes, where the toe attaches to the foot.
I won't post pictures...many of you may be eating while reading these threads...
I have to literally scrape them off (painful)
and apply Rubbing Alcohol (even more painful) at least 5-6 times before my foot is ok again.
Does anyone have a better way?
I am getting to the point where comprimising my health for a Thrift Store find,
is just not worth it.
At least the shirts are far easier to clean.
But the Shoe Beasties are getting the better of me.
Suggestions?
I find that 99% of the shoes I find at thrift stores,
have 'stuff' trapped in the toe area.
Sock fibres, dust, etc all trapped in there, and along the side of the footbed.
Here are the Wee Leggity Beasties that live in this dust...
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en...h+Images&gbv=2
When I get a pair of thrited shoes, this is my procedure:
1)
I vacuum out the shoes.
2)
I always take a terry cloth white sock, turned inside-out,
and wet it with Vodka, and get in there to kill whatever is left living in the shoes.
3)
Clean the outsides with a damp cloth (WATER..not alcohol)
4)
Leather Lotion...let dry...polish...then into the shoe trees.
Despite my cleaning of the insides,
I am getting bitten by the Dust Mite Beasties.
Little dark 'dots' under my toes, where the toe attaches to the foot.
I won't post pictures...many of you may be eating while reading these threads...
I have to literally scrape them off (painful)
and apply Rubbing Alcohol (even more painful) at least 5-6 times before my foot is ok again.
Does anyone have a better way?
I am getting to the point where comprimising my health for a Thrift Store find,
is just not worth it.
At least the shirts are far easier to clean.
But the Shoe Beasties are getting the better of me.
Suggestions?