Keep wearing shoes, lots of fun reasons !

Cutting of circulation and varicose veins !!

 

Cant go barefoot all the time ?

1. When buying shoes, remove the liner inside and place your standing foot on top. If you toes spread farther than the boundaries of the liner, you are in an ill-fitting shoe that will screw up your feet !

 

I have some shoe damage. My parents stuck shoes on me as a baby. They even have a bronze cast of my first pair of baby shoes. Can you imagine that? Commemorating sticking your kids feet into deformity causing shoes while making shoe companies rich? They didn't know any better but it's still idiotic. I'm lucky the damage isn't worse.

 

I was prescribed orthopaedic shoes as a kid. they hurt like hell and i had to keep them on. plus they were kind of frankenstein looking shoes and this didn't help either. then they were told that those shoes were wrong and added up to the pre-existing conditions. I guess a lot many barefooters have stories like our ones.

 

I just clicked on an article on barefoot running during vibrums ad campaign and decided to try and see if I could get tough feet and function barefoot.

Had no idea it would lead to the hatred of wearing shoes.

One of my toes is bent think its from one pair of bad shoes at around 13 I guess when I was growing fast at that age. It hurt a little and I ignored it for not that long. Damage done.

 

My feet are back to what they should be,not much pain anymore.

 

Hiked 3 miles today,bare foot of course,mud,snow but not many acorns this year. Minnesota.