I think a fair few people will have old shoes they can’t go out in anymore that have been designated ‘garden shoes’. These one below are mine, and I bought them back in 2005 not long after Mum died, and with some of the money I had from the sale of her house after. I had never bought a pair of expensive shoes before, these cost £60 at the time. They were just what I always wanted and were immediately so comfy. They didn’t need ‘wearing in’ at all, and I think I must have worn them every day until the backs fell apart and the soles leaked. I was glum when they were just too much of a mess to go out in, but I couldn’t give them up, as they are a link to my Mum, and they now live by our back door and I change into them to go outside to the garden or the shed when it’s raining. I have replaced them with another pair of CAT boots, same company, and considering we are 14 years on, they cost the same. But I couldn’t get the new ones in the same colour, and the toe part is a slightly different shape that I’m not so keen on, but they are just as hard wearing and functional. I’ll never love them though, not like I do these.
Fraggle's Otherverse 
I have 3 pairs of “garden shoes” ….and I hate gardening!!
LikeLiked by 2 people
🤣🤣
LikeLike
Wow…I usually don’t really have a problem with finding the right words to say..but well, this post really says it all doesn’t it? Really beautiful, truly mean that😊
LikeLiked by 2 people
Aw thanks hunny. 😘
LikeLike
I can understand that. I have three ‘Cat’ shirts. They are heavy canvas/denim, two blue, one ‘Ecru’. I bought them in 1989, and they cost £30 each, a lot of money at the time for a shirt. I am still wearing them today, 30 years later! The Ecru one is beginning to look a little ‘ragged’, so I save that for dog-walking. But the two blue ones still look as good as when I bought them.
As my Dad always liked to say, “You get what you pay for. Quality always lasts”. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Cheers Pete. They are a good company to get stuff from.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You got me a bit teary-eyed with this Fraggle.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Aw Kim, I didn’t mean to! But I’m glad I’m not the only soppy date!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have the same feelings about some things…people long gone, memories recalled in things left behind or bought because of them. Lovely tribute.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Naomi.
LikeLike