It is hard to get serious about downsizing. The conversations that go on in my head are funny, hardly significant however an inner dialogue that can keep me occupied for hours if I let it.
OK, time to get serious about downsizing. I’m throwing a pair out today… I am saying this more to myself, than you. Why, I selected this pair to be the next to go several weeks ago and I have been admiring them ever since.
These beautiful babies have been a practical “go to” pair that I can honestly say I have worn to death. Not like worn to death because OMG I am so in love with them I have to wear them all the time. No, this is the type of worn to death resulting in the simple fact that they were not the best quality. Hence worn to death…
Notwithstanding, they are, (soon to be were) stunning…
Specifications
Brand: Some Chemist brand that ends in ‘neise.
Heel height: 3.5″ or 9 cm
Colour: Black, Fawn and White with a stunning red slash ankle strap
Purchased: A chemist shoe in Stones Corner
I spotted them walking past a chemist store (I know, amazing right). I quickly tried them on. Gorgeous, $50, bargain, decision-made! I bought them before a meeting with a client. We were meeting at a coffee shop near her office. I ran back and to put them in the car, so I was not seen with my shopping bag… He, he, he…
Not sure why because after the meeting, as we walked back towards her office, we walked past my car and I dragged them out of the car to show her.
It’s a girl thing, OK…
Favourite moment
Loved looking for the perfect handbag to go with them.
Picture this… I wore them only with a black dress… As most of you know I wear mostly colour and these shoes are a statement on their own. So, finding a handbag that really worked, complimented them and the dress without competing with the shoes. Yes, you heard (well read) right, without – competing – with – the – shoes.
So, shopping for the handbag took, two summers of great enjoyment, wandering through shopping centres. This was not a full-on pursuit… It occurred two or three times over two summers. Most likely with a Xmas gift voucher from my mother-in-law in my hand and the two pairs of shoes the handbag had to match in a tote bag. Sometimes these adventures were with a girlfriend, other times not. It was a chill-out time of looking at and admiring handbags…
Funniest moment
Leaving the Caf’ at Amberley RAAF base walking beside a 6ft 4 Group Captain on a 40-degree Queensland summer day. Offered said group captain a lift back to his building (due to the heat). My shoe blew out… And while the ankle strap held on (around my ankle – funny that) the sole was doing it’s own dance trying to take off and fly, as one does at a RAAF base, and I was trying to walk as elegantly as possible given the circumstances.
I did not have another pair of shoes in the car and had to navigate the rest of the day this way…
Again, I had to walk beside said Group Captain, who I am sure was trying not to laugh from the car into the building and up a set of stairs. Just glad I did not run into the Safety Officer who would have had the dilemma of trying to work out if it was safer for me to walk this way or bare-foot (which I am sure there is a policy against) or ask me to leave base. Glad to have been spared this dilemma.
Fair-well my friends. You have served me well.
Side note 1: Downsizing in general… Much, much easier. Especially when you start to get serious about downsizing.
Rehomed:
– 3 seater and 2 seater red lounge suite
– 4 white dining room chairs, and
– 2 teal coloured dining chairs (feature chairs) And before you ask what we are sitting on, we still have 6 dining room chairs and a big couch in the lounge.
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