Lazy Ingenuity
Put your boots on. Take your boots off. Put your boots on. Take your boots off. It’s hard living in Norway. You are forever putting your boots on and taking them off to keep the inside free from the outside. Living on a farm makes the routine even worse – we use good steel-cap boots that are laced so our toes are protected and ankles are secure for snow and ice walking. But out of sheer laziness I decided it was time for some ingenuity – Coop bags for boot covers.
They work very well. So now when I forget the carrots for the rabbits, and then forget the scraps for the chickens and then the rubbish, all I have to do is pop the bags over my feet before I enter and re-enter the house. Now I don’t have to waste time with stamping my boots from snow, taking off my gloves, untieing my boots, pulling them off and resting them of the shoe rack as I step in the melting snow on the floor making my socks wet. Pure genius!
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I’m glad you feel it’s a solution but there could be a slipping hazard outside. Take care – your blog is valued!
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from L-Jay:
Ah – but when I go outside I take them off. I guess it is like having plastic slippers for your boots indoors…lol. I find that in Alta there are many places – the dentist, barnehage, doctors – that require you to put blue plastic covers over your shoes before you walk in. They have an in-pile and an out-pile right before the door. I always seem to forget to take them off and end up walking with them around the shops…lol.
This is great. When I was a kid, we used plastic bags (bread bags in the US) in the opposite way–put them over your socks before slipping your feet into boots. It made it easier for us kids to slip our boots on and also gave an extra layer of waterproofing, I guess. Your post brought back some memories for me! Thanks for your fun blog.