Odd size shoe swap anyone???

[Freddiecat]

My DS (age 4) has to wear an orthotic splint on his left foot so has to have one shoe about 1 size bigger than the other. When we bought his last shoes Clarkes only charged us 25% more to take away 2 different size shoes.

Apparently now they have changed their policy and you have to buy two pairs (which I can kind of understand so this is not a dig at Clarkes).

Thing is, there's an outside chance that these two useless shoes we'll end up with could be of use to someone else.

He's about a size 10.5 or 11 so we'll have a left shoe in about that size and a right shoe in about a 12 going. Being measured up for a new splint tomorrow (and they might decide to go back to orthotic shoes which means I have to buy NO shoes!).

Argh - school shoes are going to cost me £70 and that's before I've bought some for non-school use too!

Freddie - have you had a look at the STEPS charity website? I think they have an odd shoe swap on their discussion forum. My dd used to have odd shoes but now she's bigger we're managing to fit to the larger foot ( it's her foot itself not having a splint that mean't she needed odd shoes).