Yesterday we decided to do something about all the old shoes we had laying around. So the wife and I have been running for years and haven't done a great job of throwing away the old shows. We usually get a new pair of shoes every couple of years. So we had a lot of shoes just laying around.
I remembered there was a market for used shoes from some old news broadcast. What I found was Nike has a recycle/reuse program for old athletic shoes. Nike Recycle-shoes. "Our Reuse-A-Shoe program recycles athletic shoes at the end of their life, giving them a new life through Nike Grind. We make it easy for materials to live on from one product to the next—just drop your used shoes at a participating Nike retail store in North America or Europe." Another place would be One World Running. We went to our local Nike outlet mall and dropped off 12 pairs of shoes.
Now the twins go through shoes like the melting snow in Colorado. We had at least three sets that were never own, 6 that were worn, and another 4 that you couldn't tell were worn. For these user donated them to soles4souls. Hopefully these will go to people who need them. We just dropped these off to our local DSW store. If your local stores don’t accepts donation it looks like Zappos will do free shipping for this cause.
I know these is a market to sell your shoes for cash. This time I didn't feel like the effort was worth my time, because of the other things I needed to sell. Now for my wife's old work shoes we will probably try to sell some of those in the future.
To go along with shoes we have lots of old bikes and strollers. I moved these out of the garage to the basement to cleanup and start taking pictures to sell.
It's been awhile since I've sold stuff online and I have used ebay in the past. I will probably go with either Facebook or Amazon to avoid the 10% charge ebay likes to charge.
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