[Nemtynakht]

I think that's a fun idea. I have several pairs of shoes that would love to see the light of day.

Another thing I keep seeing, and I'm sorry that I have no more information than a very vague reference, is a recent book about a shoe addict (it's on the front table every time I've been to our local Barnes & Noble in the past few weeks). The plot motivator in this book seems to be a woman who puts an ad out looking for people to "share" her shoe collection -- women all of the same size who will rotate through shoes to maximize their collections at minimum expense. My boyfriend laughed at me when I got quite disgusted by the premise of this book. I don't share my shoes. Loan them occasionally? Perhaps. Have only partial ownership in my beauties? As if. As any true collector, it's the owning them -- and not as much the using them -- that's importan.