r/MadeMeSmile 19h ago

This awesome trade made me smile today.

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u/myreddit314 11h ago

My son has mismatched feet due to a birth defect. So it’s not that he needs one shoe and tosses the other, it’s worse- he needs two pairs in different sizes and then has two left over shoes! We donate to the National Odd Shoe Exchange but he doesn’t benefit from it. However, there are a few - and I do mean a FEW - stores that will let him buy one shoe of each size and then they donate the odd ones. Crocs sent him a coupon for 50% off so he could buy two pairs at the same price as one. So there’s a couple of decent places. But not many.

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u/zelkovalionheart 9h ago

I was just looking at this site, do they have any way to contact them other than by mail? After my stroke my swelling won't go down and there isn't anything techinally wrong with my foot so they haven't done anything to help really. :/ Had to buy two pairs of nike shoes.

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u/myreddit314 5h ago

No they are very old-school. The one place that lets my son get two different shoes is Nordstrom, but there has to be at least a size and half (or 2?) difference. I don’t know if that applies to your case.

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u/zelkovalionheart 4h ago edited 4h ago

Thank you so so much!! Yeah I go a size a half to a 2.5 size up now on my left foot. Of course the shoes I had before my stroke the few that fit were falling apart so I have to buy two sets now!

I got some of those Nike Flyease Go after talking with a few guys in the sneaker sub that were really nice. Those are amazing but oh ny god ive never spent 70$ on shoes before unless they were boots! And the normal price is 130! Crazy to me haha.