Do you enthusiastically say 'yes' to all the insoles, shoe-cleaning products, waterproofing or whatever the assistant says is important for the care of your new shoes? And do you ever use them?
I try and refuse them, but often I am convinced that they are indispensable. I rarely clean the shoes though. And so often I have been told that the insoles can be washed, but I never do! And I've never put trainers in the washing machine.
I remember shoes lined up on the coal bunker every Sunday when I was at school. Had to polish the leather ones and whiten the plimsolls. Recently I had a clear out and threw away some dried-up shoe polish and leaky tubes of shoe cream with hardly anything left in them.
