With a potato in your shoes at night you can solve a very annoying problem: seeing is believing.

Potatoes in shoes

When the summer arrives, many are led to go to clothing stores to renew their wardrobe. In addition to t-shirts, shorts, ghosts and sunglasses, you must also purchase one or more pairs of new shoes, perhaps taking advantage of some inviting discounts. However, buying shoes is not such a simple activity and can hide some pitfalls. It is not uncommon, in fact, that once you get home you realize that the shoes you just bought are not good because of the length. If they are too small, in fact, they can cause discomfort and pain in the toes.

With a potato in your shoes you will be back to wearing them without problems

In these situations, the remedy is obviously to go to the store to change your shoes and try on a larger pair. It is not certain that the operation will go through, since the right number may not even be present.

Shoes

For this reason, the advice is not to give up the shoes you have just bought but rather to take advantage of a possible solution that will allow you to wear them anyway.

Instead of taking your shoes to the shoemaker to make them stretch, you can use some quick and easy remedies. Some objects, in fact, can come to meet us and allow us to wear shoes without suffering.

Among the most popular remedies is that of the wet newspaper, to be put inside the shoe to try to lengthen it. However, the real solution is not this, but the use of a potato, which undoubtedly has a greater solidity than the wet newspaper.

The potato remedy is the easiest to apply, also because this food is almost always present at home and it is still very easy to recover it. The procedure is very simple.

The part of the shoe to be lengthened is the front, so as not to cause pain to the toes and walk without problems. To make the shoe stretch we have to insert two potatoes inside the shoes.

Leave them in your shoes at night – the result will surprise you

The first step is to peel the potatoes thoroughly and put them in a newspaper (a paper towel is also fine). Once this is done, the potatoes should be placed inside the shoes and left in this position overnight.

Potatoes

During the night hours the potatoes will be dried and the shoes will be stretched. The advice is to use this simple remedy with leather shoes, since with this material the effectiveness of potatoes seems to be much higher.

In addition, with leather shoes you can also enjoy another feature of potatoes that is highly appreciated. This food, in fact, is able to eliminate bad odors from footwear and is obviously an aspect that should not be underestimated.

With fabric shoes it is not certain that you will be able to achieve the same result, since this fabric could absorb the smell of the potato. The use of potatoes is however the best solution to comfortably wear shoes and walk without any problem.