boots

[supercheesegirl]

I've been meaning to polish my black stompy boots for a while now, and I finally got around to doing it tonight. I still had the polish from when I bought them, which I realize must have been probably 2004? Fall of 2005 at the latest. I feel pretty sure that I wore these boots to Manray, and that would have been 2004. Anyway, I hadn't polished or waterproofed them since I bought them, and there was some serious dust under the laces. Yuck. I polished them up pretty good, and I made a pretty big mess--I had to spread out grocery bags under the boots themselves, and I got polish all over my hands and also on my pants. It took probably half an hour, and my hands got all cramped up from squeezing the bottle.

Conclusion: I am not a big fan of boot-blacking. In fact I would say that I do not like it very much!

Anyway, I'll probably do the waterproofing sometime this weekend, and then my boots will be all shiny and ready for another winter of stomping.

Comments

[amazonsun.livejournal.com]

Eww...with you on the shoe polish. I usually only get a polish if I happen to run into the shoe polish dude on the street in downtown Denver. But since I don't live there anymore, I imagine I am doomed to have dull shoes from now on.

*stomps off*

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Well, these boots come up past my mid-calf, and they both zip and lace. So I actually pulled out all the laces and unzipped them and polished every part of the leather, something I wouldn't have been able to do with a shoe polish dude on the street. So that's why it took so long. But I think it was definitely a good idea!

[amazonsun.livejournal.com]

Good point. I have stompy boots similar to yours that have never been shined up. My boots are envious of your boots. :)

[lizabethanqueen]

I love polishing shoes. I don't know why that is. When I was little we had a cool shoe polish kit in this box that had an uneven top so you could put the shoes on the box and buff away....

But I still think it's a fun thing to do.

I also live to get dirty though.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

That does sound like fun! I wish my boots had been more fun like that!

[sleepyworm.livejournal.com]

I just do not understand how one could not love bootblacking?!?

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

I think I just had too much boot to black. If I was just doing it for fun, that'd be different!