Shoe Storage Part I – How Many Pairs of Shoes Do You Own? - April 20, 2006

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Before you rush out and drop your hard-earned money on the newest shoe storage solution, like a wooden or metal closet organizer with sliding racks and shoe cubbies, you should take a some time and come up with a shoe storage plan. Shoe Stör's shoe storage plan looks something like this: How many shoes do you need to store? What is your shoe storage budget, if you will (How much can you afford to spend on this project?). Do you wear some shoes more frequently than others? How much easily accessible space to you have in home and how “non-easily” accessible space is there (You know, like the very top shelf of the spare bedroom closet……….ya the same place you keep your out of style clothing that you hope will come back in style one day); and  How are you currently storing your shoes?

Of course, the easiest way to embark on this project is if you have a completely empty closet and an infinite budget so you can just build a wall-to-wall shoe organizer in your closet or maybe turn an entire room in to a shoe room.  Seeing how neither of these are likely, let’s be a little bit more practical in our approach. The first part of this project is to determine how many shoes you need to store and how much space it will require.  This is the most important part of the process and will save you a fortune in both time and money.  Remember the advice your parents gave you about planning? Do yourself a favor and take it! 1.    Divide your shoes by the seasons in which you wear them.  Two season is probably enough (spring & winter) unless you have a giant shoe collection and you may want to divide your collection further, in to 4 season; 2.    Now within each season, sub divide your shoes by style, don’t be to ambitious here, 2 or 3 categories will do; 3.    Now within each style, pick out the shoes that you wear frequently and those that you wear less often.  If you are like me, you’ll find that your probably have quite a few pairs that you don’t wear that much. What you have just done is determined the amount of easily accessible storage space you need for the shoes you wear frequently and how much shoe storage space you need for the footwear that you wear less frequently. Part II of article will look at the various shoe storage options that are available.