School shoes

I think if there were to be an award for the daftest question ever asked on GN, this would be a leading contender

I noticed this morning before he left tho that they had a split on the bottom if each plimsoll does that mean there on the way out ?

Liza If you are really 44 then you are old enough to know the answer to your first question without asking. OF COURSE you are unreasonable if you spend ten times as much on shoes for one child than you do on the other. What does that say to BOTH of them about how much you value each of them? One ten times as much as the other?

You could replace your son's shoes ten times for every pair you buy for your daughter, so there is no need for him to go to school looking scruffy.

You might have to remind your daughter when she complains about favouritism that HER shoes cost ten times as much so they ought to last ten times as long, and that she can have new ones more often if she uses cheaper ones. I am sure she will understand that.

But you have carried on this discussion about nothing for so long that I don't think anyone is very interested any more, including you.

Sorry, Liza80

I'd respectfully suggest, Liza89 that Mumsnet would be the best place to raise this topic, since they are more likely to have school-age children than we are.

What are you on about trying it on I'm 44

Agree mcen totally fallacious and not remotely interesting. And it's not even the school holidays when we usually get the kiddies trying it on.

No your being stupid the school accepts any full black footwear apart from high tops heels and formal style slip on shoes etc

Tin of black paint?

They have to be black and I don't think my son will wand his sisters ham me downs his friends would know

If his sister is older than him, he will grow into her cast-off Vans and wear them to school. he will love these pink ones

Office have a half-price sale - so problem solved - shoes for both at the price of shoes for one.

So now we can all relax, and move on to the real subjects.

I am wrong in only buying my daughter £55 pound vans and my son
£5 plimsolls ?

His feet won't smell anyway he is not the only one that wears them his best friend does aswell and another couple of his friends wear vans

This must be one of the most boring and obvious wind-ups in GN history!
How about killing it off now before the OP makes another mistake and once again spells something correctly?

Just cut out some cardboard and put inside his plimsolls. Cardboard is very waterproof. and they will last for years.

No-one will want to sit near him at school because of the smell but at least you will be able to afford nice shoes for your DD.

What sort of shoes are Vans? I don't think plimsoles will make anyone flat footed, stinky footed maybe.

I have heard that going barefoot is better for building up the proper muscles in your feet, but it is impractical most of the time with our weather.
My DD was a DM shoe and boot wearer in her teens. I am sure it helped her feet from high heels and bunions.

I have a pair of plimsoles I wear as house shoes they are very comfortable. and they don't fall off my feet under tables like my slippers do.

I have rather flat feet but as Rosequartz commented I think mine are also inherited.

I think my MGF was not allowed to enlist in WW1 because of his feet.

I noticed this morning before he left tho that they had a split on the bottom if each plimsoll does that mean there on the way out ?

For pe he wears black trainers and at break he stays in his plimsolls

For pe or break

What does he wear for football?

Yeah he does find them confutable I think he has never asked for different types of pumps just shoe zone ones

Plimsolls - or daps as we call them round here, must be uncomfortable. Maybe they are the fashion at the moment?

Plimsolls do fit the uniform policy it's black jumper white polo shirt black trousers and black shoes or black trainers or plimsolls

Yeah yeah, Jeremy Bear.

Neither do plimsolls fit schools' uniform policy

YRW