There is a better-than-average chance that the most treasured thing in your home is housed in the most mundane of containers. It may be photographs from your youth, a trove of baseball cards, seashells from your honeymoon, or saucy letters written between your grandparents during a time when they were apart. All these items are likely tucked away somewhere in a shoebox.
Few shoe shoppers have considered a primary benefit of buying new kicks to be the box in which they are housed. Yet these boxes fill up our homes from attic to basement, providing us with a simple filing system for our memories. Oftentimes, the shoebox outlives the footwear by decades. That is because shoeboxes are the perfect size to store things that are important enough to keep but not to display. And when those things are out of sight, they are often out of mind.
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