Does anyone else like polishing shoes?.....

[mrmpa]

Just polished a pair of my 86 year old mom's shoes. I used Kiwi polish from a can (parade black), used two coats and then shined them to a high gloss.

I love smelling the polish as it's used, covering the nicks and scratches. I think it reminds me of when I was young and Dad would polish our shoes once a week, usually on Sunday, before we went back to school.

I remember just watching him and how he could do 4 pair, lickety split. I just find it relaxing. I currently don't have any leather shoes, otherwise I'd be doing mine too.

[MADem]

1. I remember polishing shoes as a child, and in the military!

Those days are long behind me!

[applegrove]

2. I like doing the dishes and cleaning the lint trap. That is about it.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I used to do that, too, hadn't thought of it in ages

These days, so many wear sneakers, LOL. But now that you mention it, I remember the smell, too.

And my Dad's drawers are just as he left them, contain several cans of Kiwi polish...

[femmocrat]

4. I used to!

I don't wear dress shoes anymore, but I used to have a lot of colors (plus transparent) of shoe polish. I remember using that white brush-on stuff, too.

[Aristus]

5. I hated it when I was in the Army and it was a requirement.

Now that I'm out, I like making sure my dress shoes are nice and polished.

When I was in PA School, every once in a while, the student body would have to get dressed up for a certain occasion. We could always tell the veterans among us, because we were the ones who always had neatly polished shoes.

The non-military guys might wear a nice suit, and a great shirt and tie combo, but they seemd to be happy with dull black or brown shoes...

[mrmpa]

7. My 86 year old mom's doctor...........

is originally from India, one of the smartest diagnostician I've met. Well anyway he is the nattiest dresser. I once looked at his shoes, they were cordovan and had the highest shine I had seen in quite awhile.

I asked who shines his shoes, he told me he does, he "finds it relaxing."

I remember reading an anecdote once. A man with 4 children lost his mother. After coming home from the funeral home, he found a neighbor in his house, polishing the shoes of all the children plus his and his wife's.

The neighbor told him, there's not much I can do or say to you, but I can do this.

I've tried to remember that when I've had friends who have lost someone. I have a friend who is a nun, she lost her dad, her last parent. She lived about 200 miles from home and couldn't leave for a day or two. I picked her up and took her for a small hike through a local park. There wasn't anything I could say, but I could do that.

[OriginalGeek]

6. I need to get into it

I'm embarrassed as a leather worker (very amateur hobbyist level) to have shabby shoes when I have all the stuff right here to do it. I'm just lazy with my own stuff. I should, at the very least, keep a good polish on my Allen Edmonds wingtips and my Lucchese boots. Those are the crown jewels of my shoe collection.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. My dad either liked it or was just really habitual about it.

Like the army, CPAs at Arthur Anderson once had to keep their shoes shined as part of the old "Full Arthur" look.

[yuiyoshida]

9. when you live in open toed sandals and

flip flops, who needs shoe polish?

[annabanana]

10. My Dad used to like to do this.

He had a shoe-shine box in the bedroom closet, and at least once a week he'd get it out and give all his brogues a good lick!

[trof]

11. I used to spit shine my jump boots.

That was USAF pilot issued footwear.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. I Used To Like It, Yes

But, i wear dress shoes so seldom anymore, that the original shine stays on my shoes for years.

But, yes i did like doing it. Maybe it was huffing the solvents in the polish!

[Chellee]

13. I only polish shoes when I have to.

For relaxation though, nothing beats ironing handkerchiefs. It's very soothing.