Money saving tip for holiday shoes for the kids

If you are like me you enjoy finding new outfits for the kids to wear for the holidays...But you don't enjoy all of the cost that goes into an outfit, that at most they may wear two or three times. So last year at an after Christmas department store sale we went ahead and purchased the kid's dress clothes for this year. However, not only do the kids not fit into their clothes from year to year, but their shoes too.

So I found myself on the hunt for little boys dress shoes... Would someone please explain to me why little boy's dress shoes have to be so ugly?! They look cheap, oversized for their feet and cost as much as my husband's shoes. I went to one store after the next, searched on Black Friday and even got as far as bringing a pair to the counter to purchase.

In the end, I just couldn't bring myself to do it; spend all that money for shoes that once again have a life span of hours. It was in my most desperate moment that an idea came to me; dye a pair of suede shoes he already has in the closet. I bought shoe touch-up dye (yes, the one that says do not use on suede) for a few dollars to see if my idea would work. Sure enough, a couple of coats of dye and his old, tan shoes are now charcoal and ready to wear for the holidays.

Here is a picture of him wearing is newly reDESIGNed shoes for his school play.