How many pairs of shoes does your 8 year old (DD) have?

[preponderings]

DD currently has:
crocs for home/garden
wellies
winter boots
gym shoes (indoor)
and hiking boots.
(Oh, and a pair of party shoes MIL insisted on buying her, which she has worn twice )

Until now she's always had a pair of goretex shoes, like these from superfit, as her every day shoes.

Pair of sandals for the summer.

When they do sport at school, I've always sent her with her everyday shoes. She's just joined a sports club and they will do athletics outdoors in the summer. Does this mean I need to plan to get her a pair of sports trainers as well? It seems a bit crazy for her to have so many shoes but I don't know if she'll need shoes with a softer, more flexible sole for sport.

School shoes and 2x indoor plimsoles kept at school and after school.
School gym trainers
Casual boots
Winter snow boots (no wellies at the moment)
Trainers - home also used for sport
Crocs
Party shoes
Ballet shoes (do they count?)

Wellies, school shoes, trainers, sandals (for anything she has to dress up for). Also back pe pumps.
I was considering getting her some boots, but she loves her trainers so it wasn't needed. This seems like the minimum, which is crazy for a young kid.

DD8 has at the moment

School shoes
PE trainers
Trainers
Doc marten style boots

In the summer she will have a couple of pairs of sandals, one practical every day pair and a more dressy pair.

DD8:

School shoes
School plimsolls
Vans
Boots
Wellies

School shoes
2 x trainers that she was given by a neighbour who had grown out of them
Canvas baseball boot type things with rainbows on
Glittery party shoes
Wellies
Plimsolls for school

Meanwhile, DD2 is 5, and only has school shoes, plimsolls for school, and wellies x 2 because they needed a pair to keep at school

9yr dd

Trainers for school
Converse for weekends
Wellies for rainy days
3x Sparkly occasion shoes
Slippers for indoors

Wellies
Riding boots
Walking shoes
School shoes
Trainers
Slippers

3 pairs of trainers one of these pairs she's had over a year as her feet haven't grew
Converse
2 pairs ankle boots
Doc marten boots had these over a year as well
Doc marten school shoes
A pair of hideous Lelli Kelly baseball style shoes that we won in a Facebook competition
Wellies
Ballet shoes
Gym shoes
Party shoes
Random sandals etc

DD 10

1. black Dr marten ankle boots aka school shoes ( we're in Scotland no school rules about shoes/boots)
2. indoor pumps for school
3. trainers

4.wellies

1. slippers
2. crocs for beach etc
3. sandals for summer
4. converse type thing for summer/ casual

School shoes
Plimsolls for indoor pe
Sports trainers
Casual trainers
Casual boots
Snow boots
Wellies
Hiking boots
Sandals
Slippers

All this x2 for 2 DDs (7&8), plus a stash of shoes DD1 has outgrown and awaiting DD2.

Dd 7 has
School shoes
Smart boots (which she currently wears to school)
Trainers
Party shoes
Crocs
Wellies
Plimsolls (for pe they live at school)

My 9yr old DS has:
1 pair School shoes
1 pair of trainers for home
1 pair of trainers for school
1 pair Wellies
1 pair Tap shoes.

Wellies
Chelsea boots
Dr martens
School shoes
Ballerina flats
New Balance trainers
Converse
Vans

When DD1 was that age she had loads of shoes. She loved shoes. She still does only she pays now

When DD2 was that age she had one pair. She is Autistic and wears the same pair of boots for everything. Still does.

My 9yr old DTs have:

• school shoes
• 2x sports trainers
• converse hi tops
• white adidas (not for sports)
• uggs
• black boots (these were used for school last year in winter but their new school doesn’t allow boots so they just wear them outside of school)
• ankle boots

I think that's it, so 8 pairs each. In the summer they will likely add a couple of pairs of ballet flats.

In their defence their feet grow pretty slowly (hence why last year’s school boots still fit and they are now on their 3rd winter in their uggs)

The ballet flats they have don’t last because I tend to buy cheapy ones from M&S or Next rather than decent quality and they wear out by the end of the summer

School t bar shoes
Black ankle boots
Brown ankle boots
School PE trainers
Slip on trainers
Sliders
Sandals
Wellies

DD age 8 has:
Wellies for horse riding
1 pair grey trainer boots
1 pair pink trainer boots
1 pair peach trainers
1 pair sequinned party shoes
Football boots
Casual plimsolls
2 pairs school boots
1 pair school shoes

My twins girls are 8 soon, they both have...

School shoes
Leather chelsea boots
Suede desert boots
Canvas high tops
Trainers
Saltwater sandals
Wellies
Crocs for the park/beach/garden
Slippers

Wellies
Walking boots
Furry boots
School shoes
Trainers - probably wouldn't replace trainers in the winter though, she tends to wear her boots.

Lelli Kelly school shoes
Converse
Sketchers
Wellies
Faux ugg type primark boots
Various types of ballet pumps
Football boots

School shoes
School trainers
Home trainers
Crocs
Wellies
Furry boots

Ok, so it would be within the normal range then! I make her bring her sports kit home each week as I refuse to buy her an extra pair of gym shoes for one hour a week.

Mine just run around bare foot when at home tbh 🤣

Mine are always barefoot in the house. By trainers ‘for home’ I just mean as opposed to ‘for school’. So they wear them for walks/jogs/bike rides/to friends houses/to play in the garden etc.