Happy feet

About a week ago, I saw a CraigsList ad for 15 pair of high-heel shoes for $40 in a size that might fit (or probably would be a bit small for) me. I contacted the girl and told her I would be interested in trying them on and for the next week, we scheduled meetings and she inevitably rescheduled all the meetings. Well, today I saw a new ad for a bunch of shoes that were more like my size, posted from a lady that was packing up her house and down-sizing. She was only asking $15 for the whole lot, so I called her and told her I'd come right over (so I didn't have enough time to think about it and back out). On the phone, she told me that the reason she was packing and down-sizing is that her husband has been out of a job for 3 months and they and their 5 children have to move in with his parents for now.
When I got there, she had two totes over-flowing with shoes! We put them into two large garbage bags and I decided to give her the $40 I had set aside because it sounded like she really needed it. I could tell the offering warmed her, but I still felt a little bad that I was taking all those shoes for so little money. She threw in a coat that was "going to Goodwill" too (I'm undecided about it right now).

Well, after I dumped and sorted both bags, there were 59 and a half pairs, here's the picture of all of them. I then proceeded to try every pair on and separate them by what fit, and what didn't. 19 didn't fit and 2.5 got thrown away.
Finally the hard part, what I want to keep and what I don't. Well, it was a lot of on-and-off and my happy feet aren't so sure they're happy currently, but I got down to 18 I didn't want, 6 maybes and 14 keepers.
I'm pretty content. There are at least a few that are SUPER cute and I feel good that I was able to help that lady too.
PS- She told me about another website that I'm going to have to check out called FreeCycle.com where people post free things and usually they're snatched up really quickly.


Per request, here is a picture of the coat. I haven't worn it yet (except for this picture) so chances are, I'm not going to keep it.


Wow, I think this is the first time I've taken a cheesy, in the mirror picture...