I realize this is a little late in the season to be sharing as temperatures have already dropped, but I recently made a little video explaining how I store my off-season shoes. (It’s also at the end of this post.) So I thought I’d follow up with this write-up as well in case you prefer an old-fashioned blog post with photos.
Living in a small apartment with small closets, I need to be efficient about how I store things. While I have a trusty shoe rack by my front door, it cannot hold all of my shoes. So, I swap my footwear out twice a year: once in the fall, and once again in the late spring.
There’s nothing fancy about my method. I simply store my off-season shoes in sturdy shoe boxes at the bottom of my closet. I like to draw a picture of the shoe on a post-it note, which I keep on the outside of the box so that I can tell by a glance what the contents are.
Freeing my dr. Liza boots for the fall. (Review of the boots here.)
On the other side of the box, I have post-it notes for what’s in the box during the other season. So in this case, when I take these dr. Liza boots out, two pairs of sandals go in.
Putting my dr. Liza sandals and The Flexx sandals away.
No need to switch out the post-it notes. I keep them on the box at all times. I just flip which side of the box is facing outwards in my closet. So now that it’s fall, and I’ve put my sandals away, the sandals post-its face out.
When storing two pairs of shoes in one box, I ensure the bottom of the shoes do not touch the tops of the shoes.
I also clean the bottom of my shoes with soapy water and let them dry before storing. And I’m careful to store them top to top, so that no bottoms — even if they are clean — are touching the tops of shoes. Lastly, I stuff each shoe with paper to help keep its shape.
Now these boxes will go into my closet, beneath my clothes on hangers. And that’s it!
Here’s the video:
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