I bought a large lined wicker laundry basket from Michaels on their 50% off sale. It fits probably about 15 pairs of adult shoes. When it gets full we just take the basket around to the bedrooms, drop off the shoes in their respective closets and start over.

I don't have a picture of it in place, but it looks like the large basket in the back row, center from this picture.

"militant shoe removers"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

My mom uses one like this (it's mostly for the kids when they run around the 9 acre property near the pond or get into "stuff" down at the barn). We aren't militant shoe removers either, LOL!

Here is a link that might be useful: Boot tray

Remove our shoes--HaHaHa! Ours all end up laying everywhere. We are all guilty. They usually end up in the kitchen or in fornt of the sofa in the familyroom. I'm too lazy to take upstairs everynight, so I just plop in this basket. I empty when it starts overflowing, which as you can see it now!

Here's mine. We wear our shoes inside. Our shoe spot is mainly to keep DD's shoes contained, and to give her a sense of discipline and order in where she keeps things since she is only 2 and obsessed wtih her various flip flops right now. That was the sole purpose for our shoe spot.

Summertime, it's only DD and my flip flops...not my everyday shoes or tennis shoes. I keep all my shoes in my bedroom.

I got mine at Meijer for about $20. The tag called it a "newspaper basket".

{{!gwi}}
Gayle

Also don't have a pic but we use seagrass baskets with lids. One for each member of the family. I just chuck the shoes in and close the lid. They are lined up nicely in our front foyer. I keep thinking one day I will build a nice little built in unit to put them on, but in the meantime this works.

no basket, just a plain, raised lip plastic black boot tray in the mudroom. I don't like the look of jumbled shoes in a basket and this way it accomodates dirty or wet, snowy shoes nicely. I got the boot tray at Home Depot for like $6.

I saw a neat 'hall bench' at costco today that would be a good solution to this problem. It was a cushioned bench with 4 small drawers and 4 medium sized baskets underneath. It would be perfect for sitting down and taking shoes off or putting them on. I'm trying to decide if it would work in my space.

I couldn't find the exact one, but the link shows something similar.

Here is a link that might be useful: Bench with baskets