July 13, 2012 - Granny's Blue :-(


July 12....

I'm so blue.  No, I'm not sad, I'm really blue.

I bought a darling pair of sandals on sale a couple of years ago.  I tossed them into the closet and didn't wear them, as I had a favorite pair of brown leather sandals that were very comfortable, and went with everything from dressy slacks to shorts and jeans.  Last week my favorite shoes took a deep breath and an entire back strap went flying off.  Time to toss those and dig out the navy blue sandals.




I wore them for the first time yesterday.  Mr. Granny and I drove over to Oregon and had a fancy lunch, which called for discarding the usual shorts and T-shirt and dressing up just a little bit.

As I was eating lunch, my feet were becoming more and more uncomfortable.  I slipped the toes of one foot under the heel of the other, trying to slip the shoe off my foot, under the table.  My foot wouldn't budge.  The bottom of my foot was stuck tight to the insole of the shoe!  I tried slipping off the other shoe, and it was also stuck.  I reached down and tried to get my fingers between the shoe and my heel, and I could not pry the heel of the shoe away from my foot.  I was glued to my shoes!  It wasn't until I got home that I was finally freed from them.  It took prying fingers, small spatula, a wooden spoon and a lot of swearing to finally get them off.  If you look at the shoe on the left in the photo, you can see the imprint of my toes!

Well, today I went out to work in the garden, sans shoes.  The garden had been watered early in the morning, and the damp soil felt so good on my bare feet!  As it got too hot to work outside, I headed for the house.  At the door, I checked the bottoms of my feet to make sure I didn't have any mud clinging to them.

My feet were blue.  Very, very dark blue.  Navy blue.



That's not mud, people.  That's what had come off the inner soles of my sandals!  These aren't cheap shoes, they're about fifty bucks a pair (but I got them end of season, half price).

Have you ever scrubbed the bottoms of your feet with a stiff brush?  It's excruciating!  I soaked, I scrubbed and I used Goo Gone.  I soaked and scrubbed some more.  I ended up with this....


Maybe it will wear off eventually.

*I want you to know that both of my feet are the same size, a 7 1/2.  It's the camera angle that makes them look like they belong to Sasquatch, and makes one foot look three inches longer than the other.   LOL!

**If wearing nylons with them doesn't help, those shoes (the brand shall remain unnamed, but I'm sure you can read it in the first photo) are going into the garbage  :-(



27 comments:

  1. My mom ALWAYS wore SAS. She swore by them. But, that was years ago and I suppose they cheapened up the quality on them just like EVERYTHING nowadays. I bought some Bass shoes last winter. VERY FIRST TIME I went to tie the laces, the metal rings that hold the laces snapped off. Bass lost my business. Problem is, it is more and more companies doing this. Greed and profits-ah, the new American dream!

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    1. Sue, I buy cheap Danskin or Cobbie Cuddler shoes when they go on sale at buy one, get one half price, and they last forever! I buy one "good" pair of SAS and they're crap.

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  2. I'm not sure I'd want to try them with nylons. Being a Smurf has never been high on my list of desires.

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    1. Daphne, being a Smurf is bad enough, but a Sasquatch Smurf is even worse.

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  3. WOW! That's really bad quality shoes. Sorry you had such a bad experience with them :(

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    1. Jenny, I can't find one bad review of that brand on line!

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  4. If I were you I'd contact SAS and let them know! That was the first time you wore them, no matter how long they sat - though I wouldn't let on that part. LOL> They owe you a new pair of shoes!!!!
    They have always been a great company to work with when I've had problems I bet they come through for you!

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    1. Barbie, I don't think I'd even want to try another pair of that brand after that experience. My feet still hurt from trying to scrub that stuff off.

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  5. What in the world was going on with those shoes? I've never ever heard of that happening before. You've had so much luck writing to companies I wonder if you shouldn't write to that shoe company. You even have the photo evidence to share with them.

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    1. Marcia, I've only ever written to two companies in my life. Ed Hume Seed Co. got back to me and offered a refund on a $2 pkt. of seeds. Kerr never did reply after writing them twice, and that was on a full case of canning jars and a box of lids. I had photo evidence of the jars with uneven tops that wouldn't seal and big burnt bubbles in the sides.

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  6. well.... I'm sorry it happened ....

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    1. David, I can hear you laughing at my blue feet all the way up here in WA state!

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  7. Sort of funny, but then again it's not. No shoe should dye your feet blue. That's not comfortable and it's not healthy. And, no shoe these days should require nylons. We used to have to wear nylons, and it's a lovely freedom to be able to leave them off. If it were me, those shoes would go out of the house today, and I would never buy that brand again.

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    1. Dianefaith, I guess you are me...because they are going out of the house today. I'm not even going to donate them, they'll go into the landfill. It wasn't even dye, it was actually some type of plastic or vinyl that even came off in chunks in places. I can't even scrape the small chunks off with my fingernail! You can see where a chunk of the insole is missing right in the center of the big toe imprint. Too bad, because I really liked the style. The heels on so many of the sandals are either too high or too flat, and these were just right. And about nylons...I buy knee highs to tie up my tomatoes, not to wear!

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  8. on my that is too funny and horrible at the same time! its one thing to have them dye your feet a lovely shade of blue, but it looks like the vinyl came off and stuck to you...not good at all!! Glad to see that you got most of it off and that you are going to toss them.

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    1. It came off and stuck to me, Mrs. P. Funny thing is, my old sandals cost half as much, I wore them for at least four years, maybe more, and the insoles were real leather, not dyed plastic!

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  9. Mercy me I say toss those puppies erm shoes in the trash now! yikes. They could have pulled your skin off yikes!

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    1. Texan, they've been thoroughly tossed! It feels like my skin was pulled off, but that's probably from the stiff scrub brush I had to use on them!

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  10. I have never seen anything like that in my life. Geez.
    Lisa

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  11. Neither have I, Lisa, and I've had a very looooooooooong life :-D

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  12. Your poor feet! I know what you mean trying to find the right size of heels. Nancy

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    1. Nancy, it seems as though nobody makes cute "granny sandals"! If I get a heel over 3/4" high, I feel like I'm walking downhill all the time.

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  13. Your poor feet! They look so sore after the scrubbing, Granny. I hate wearing shoes. Mr Farmer laughs at me all the time for going barefoot or wearing flip flops. He doesn't think you can work in flip flops. I seem to do just fine.

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    1. Langela, I go barefoot or wear slippers around the house. I like barefoot the best, but as I get older the padding is disappearing from the bottoms of my feet! They get pretty sore walking around the house, so I usually opt for soft slippers inside. I never could wear flip flops, it hurts too badly between my toes. I never could wear them long enough to toughen them up. Oh, crap, I'm just falling apart! :-O

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  14. TOSS those puppies and get some tan sandals like the old faves. You should not have to risk having to barbecue brush your feet clean from the shoe's poor innersole materials. Sucks that you paid a good price and then got that! I vote for a reason to buy new comfy TAN sandals which go everywhere again!! I love a good pair of comfy shoes and just beat the heck out of my latest Keens for the past FOUR years. They're so old the leather is breaking away from the soles and they are super sturdy shoes!! They're now my "garden shoes" and work great out there. :(except if it's muddy and they leak in the muddy water hahaha). OMG, you need to note what brand/type the old ones are and replicate. You might be able to find them on ebay!

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  15. or maybe you're just "one hot mama" and melted them?
    I just read the fact that you tossed them. I'd not want to get a replacement from them either! zoikes!

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    1. AmyT, the old ones were Cobbie Cuddlers, and I can't find the style any more. I bought a different leather style, same brand, they killed my feet! I'll have to hit Freddie's and see what they have. Their's will probably be on sale now, too.

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