Did anyone ever have to put cardboard in their shoes and rubber bands to hold?

Question

up their socks (when elastic broke) when they were kids? We would have to wait until money came in to take the shoes to the shoe shop to get new soles put on.

Answer 1

certainly did, times were hard in the 50's in the UK, rationing was still in force, your shoes wore out there were no coupons to get others. My dear mother had to buy second hand shoes for me and my sister from a junk market or insert the cardboard. It wasn't till I joined the RAF at 15 that I got proper shoes and boots without holes, sheer bliss. My dear parents have been gone a long time now but it is strange how you remember the good old bad old times, but they did their best for us under difficult conditions

Answer 2

I was hard on shoes when I was a child. I had to get a new pair at least once a month. More than once my Mom put cardboard on the inside and always remind me never to tell anyone that I had a hole in my shoe. lol I would wear the cardboard until she could get me to the store. There were times that she would have to take me to the store before I went to school. I thought it was fun being late. She didn't drive in those days so it was walk several miles or take a bus. I always thought it was fun and looked forward to it.

Answer 3

Yea daisyMae I remember the cardboard and then us guys would put an innertube patch on the bottom of our shoe souls. But I guess the knee sock "thing with rubber bands was a trick you gals used( didn't know this). With the show "My 3 Sons" and the one sock down became a sort of fad with us guys. Oh yea, we never crossed our legs so the patch would show and that was hard to do

Answer 4

Did the rubber band thingie with my socks and went to college with a young man who was then in Med School who put newspapers in his shoes because the soles were flapping in the wind and had holes in them...BTW he ended up being one of the most wealthy MD's on the East Coast, yet still considers a good vacation being going home to Warren, NC and fishing and hunting.

Answer 5

Some kids used to reverse their shoes to even out the wear and prolong the shoe llife. They would pretend they accidentally put the shoes on the wrong feet. It also served as a reminder not to play in the shoes. Home from school, and shoes right off.

Answer 6

I never had to do that, but my grandfather talked to me about living during the great depression. It was not like now where you could just go buy a new pair of shoes. he even had a pair of shoes that did not match and said some kids did not even have shoes at all. If the shoes went bad, they simply tried fixing them. Makes me appreciate what i have.

Answer 7

No, I never had to do that to my shoes or socks. I do remember my dad taking our shoes to the "shoe cobbler" to get new heels put on our shoes. Now, people just toss them out & buy new. Not far from where I live, there's a "shoe cobbler/shoe repair in an outlet mall. I had to look twice as I passed by his window. I thought the shoe repair shops were obsolute.

Answer 8

I didn't use the cardboard. I did use the rubber bands on my socks a lot, they just wouldn't seem to stay up. lol I'm not sure why I didn't just get new ones. I hadn't thought of that in awhile.

Answer 9

No. At my one daughters wedding I had to stuff newspaper in the toes part. I was insistent on getting this pair of shoes, one size too big. By the end of the night, I thought I would never walk again!

Answer 10

I had to put cardboard in my sneakers more times than I want to remember. Those were the good old days for sure!, but we were happy. Had to sleep with my winter coat on when it was really cold, could not afford to keep the heat running at night.