I found I didn’t really have to throw much out in the way of clothing, which was nice, and it also seems that I have enough clothes to get me through the next few months without either catching a cold or looking like a fashion disaster as I try and keep warm and dry!  The one thing that did stand out though was the state of my shoes. I love shoes, and any excuse to buy a pair is good enough for me - when I broke my toe earlier this year, the one good thing that came out of it was that I needed to buy some new shoes, I mean actually needed to as I couldn’t get my poor bruised, swollen toe into any of my existing pairs.  So while sorting through my wardrobe, of course I found numerous pairs of shoes that I had forgotten about, or thought I had lost and was pleasantly surprised at a couple of pairs of divine high heels that I had apparently bought in a sale and put to the back of my wardrobe, in their boxes (showing their huge 75% discount) to be forgotten until I dared to delve into the very depths!

I decided it was high time to face the music and get all my shoes from their hiding places around the house and see exactly how many pairs I had, which ones I really needed (all of them of course) and where I was going to store them so I know where they were and what I had.  I have to admit I was kind of taken back to see just how many pairs I had, when presented with a pile of shoes that looks like you could lose a small child in it, you really have to assess just how bad your shoe addiction is. Anyway, I managed to part with a couple of pairs, admittedly they were some running shoes that should really have been labelled bio-hazard and a couple of pairs of heels that had gone way past the re-heeling stage and just had to be shamefully binned.

Now, where to keep all my precious shoes was the next thing, and I really couldn’t find anywhere suitable to put them all without them taking up valuable space and looking amazingly messy as I tried to pile them neatly on top of each other. I decided to do a bit of research into shoe storage and discovered exactly what I needed - a shoe storage cupboard - a cupboard designed solely for storing my lovely shoes in. Could it get much better? Why I didn’t know these sort of things existed before I don’t know, perhaps I was in denial about just how much of a shoe junkie I am. Having done some online research I have found that not only do shoe storage cabinet exist, but they exist in such a wonderful range of styles and colours that I am spoilt for choice, it is almost as exciting as buying a pair of shoes.