what do you do with bronzed baby shoes

Take a photo and do this

DH put his in the trash, after his mother gave us a box of his stuff. I pulled them out and put them on a shelf in the bedroom the grandkids use. The funny thing is my DD thought they were something I picked up at a junk market or antique store. After he passed away and I moved, I turned his John Deere display cabinet with his tractors into what we call the shrine, LOL. She saw the shoes in there and questioned me about them.

It's fine to dispose of them, if they don't bring you joy!

I threw mine out. They were special to my mother, I suppose, but other than the memory of seeing them hanging on the wall a thousand times, they have no significance to me.

I was going to ask this question last week! I have my dad's in my bookcase and I was dusting and though why the heck do I keep these? I probably also have mine in a box in the basement somewhere too. I think I will toss them!

Display them on the piano…..

Here's an idea I saw on Pinterest - use them as Christmas tree ornaments.  I think  DH's are in a box somewhere attached to an old picture frame.  However, his mother also had his first cowboy boots bronzed.  Those are actually cute and I have had them out at various times.  Bonus on those is I can use them as a vase, which I sometimes do when it is Rodeo season here.  

I use my son’s as a bookend. Both shoes are on one base. I am too sentimental to discard them. I doubt he will discard them when I am gone but I know my non sentimental daughter in-law will want to do just that. Ha

When I moved from TX to CA a year ago, I STRUGGLED with boxes and boxes of sentimental keepsakes. I was majorly downsizing and knew I wouldn’t have room for them. It’s not like I displayed them, or even pulled them out occasionally. They just sat in boxes. But how could I get rid of them? It was a torturous decision, but somehow, I managed to get rid of 99% of it.

Now, looking back, I wish I would have kept it all—the ugly brown pinch pots I made in elementary school art, the dented pewter candy dish that sat on our living room table for years, the old family hymnal that you couldn’t even look at without it falling apart, the weird looking jar full of baby teeth…

Just kidding. I don’t miss any of it and haven’t even thought about it until now… dump them.

Well - I guess I am the sole dissenter here. I have mine as well as a baby cup and silver ware. I also have pitcher that was my great grandmothers and an ice shaver and an old, old iron as well as a set of pretty bowls that my dad got for my grandmother during WWII. I have all of that and more in a display cabinet in my living room. It's a reminder to me of my heritage. Silly I guess.

Just because I don't keep bronzed baby shoes doesn't mean I don't keep anything at all. You are making a very incorrect assumption here. I have a number of treasured family heirlooms that I display and use. Some of value and some just sentimental.

I had my oldest two kids baby shoes bronzed in the late 90s. About 5 years ago I threw them out! If I can toss my own kids bronzed shoes, I also give you permission to toss yours.

Me too! Love that! Now to ask Mom where mine are (and hers).

Never saw any within my family.