The gripping story of Shoe Swappers
One late evening it occurred to me that all (or almost all) of us have this great tool at our fingertips. It's not your computer exactly, and it's not this (terrific, fabulous, awesome) website. It's the Internet. For all its misuses, dark alleys, and privacy concerns, it has given us the ability to connect to each other in a way that no other people in the whole of human history have ever achieved. What we do with it matters. ShoeSwappers.com is an attempt at making it do good.
I have always been amazed at how some people, end up with a closet full of shoes. Most of those shoes were bought on a whim and are as good as new. My wife is one of those people. There is a quiet, continuous battle going on between my clothes and her shoes and my t-shirts are losing badly. I knew that if she wouldn't sell her untouched and barely used shoes on Craig's List or eBay because she wouldn't get back anything approaching their worth or even give them away through the amazing Freecycle because they were still desired soles, I would have to find some totally new way to convince her that most of them had to go. And thus, Shoe Swappers was born.
Now my wife looks at her racks of shoes completely differently. They aren't items to hold onto, they are almost-loved shoes that can magically become fantastic shoes. I have even gained a couple of nice running shoes in the bargain. It's amazing what you can trade for a few flats and a pair of barely worn name-brand heels.
If you are still unconvinced, just give it a try. Someone else's almost-loved is another person's precious.
Cheers!
Gregory and Deborah
