Buying Shoes Online

Babies, I meant to tell you this earier:

When you’re buying shoes online through one of the many discount, “no-you-can’t-return-anything” sites (or even on the “yes-you-can-return-these” sites), there are two things to remember:

1. You run a much lesser risk of getting the wrong size if you’re already familiar with the brand and know that they work for your very special little feetsies and;
2. Order a half size bigger and plan to put some comfy insoles in them.

I KNOW THIS SEEMS OBVIOUS but you would not believe how many pigeons ask me, all wide-eyed, “What if I order shoes from those discount sites and they don’t fit!?”

Cripes, kids, life is full of risks!

It also helps to have a best friend who gets to benefit from any mistakes you might make. My dear friend R. has a foot that’s just slightly smaller than mine and scores all the too tight pairs I purchase. She hates shopping like poison, I love making her happy, and the Holy Ghost has worked it out just perfectly so that whenever her shoes are absolutely falling apart, I happen to show up with a new pair or two. Because we feel very strongly in our personal theology that when we are happy about our shoes, God is happy and the heavens rejoice.