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Holder for slippers

Completion date: June 2018


Sometimes my slippers fell down from the shoe rack and got caught at the back against the wall.  It's quite troublesome to get them back.  I need to do something to get my slippers in no time. 


There are a number of products out for the slipper storage: pockets that hang behind the door, and individual slipper racks (adhesive to stick to wall). I didn't want neither of those. Pockets-behind-the-door are way up high to nose level, it might smell... and neither do I have space to house these individual slipper racks on the wall. 


I just need to put them up, where the shoe boxes are...


I cut 2 slits on a shoe box. I have a long hard round straw (you can also cut up a ballon holder stick). Then I cut up a piece of nylon ribbon (from cake shop). 


So here was what I did: 

  1. Threaded the ribbon through the hard straw
  2. With the hanging straw outside of shoe box, put the ends of the ribbon into the slits
  3. Then tied the ribbon between the 2 slits at the inside of shoe box. 










The advantage of using a shoebox is that you can rearrange the shoeboxes to set slippers lower or higher. However, you must have something inside the shoebox to weight it down.  


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