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

Those days are long behind me!

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

flip flops, who needs shoe polish?

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!

That was USAF pilot issued footwear.

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!

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