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What to do with old shoes?

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    #32
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,695 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Sadly, it goes against the grain to think of sending stuff off to the "Third World" so that a bunch of greedy middlemen can make a fortune off the back of some poor African craftsman. :( I may have watched too many documentaries on the subject of how our Western waste is poisoning the lives of the "not us" people. So for stuff like this (and electrical waste) I need to know exactly what's happening to it.


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    #33
    ValKra
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭ValKra


    Donations to Simon, if they are non dress shoes?


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    #34
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,695 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    As mentioned in other posts, these shoes are no longer fit to wear in any context (other than, perhaps, part of a "homeless guy" costume); and I'm really looking for something that *I* can do with them, instead of foisting them onto someone else.


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    #35
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,346 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    You could fill them with compacted clay and use them as bricks for a border for a flower bed (and cover them with something else because they wouldn't be pretty). I've seen houses built with used tyres and compacted earth - your shoes might not last as long, but you wouldn't have to live in them.


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    Graces7
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    When I lived on an Outer Orkney island and there were few if any alternatives, the system was to dig a very deep hole or trench. Bury and cover and grow atop.


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    nigeldaniel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭nigeldaniel


    Although I am just speaking for myself I used two old shoes about a year back as bird houses. Used an ingenious ways to attach them to a blackthorn tree. Can't be sure they were used but some ivy is currently hidding them.

    Dan.



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