However, each of these shoes was for a particular occasion, a final puzzle piece to an outfit designed to impress, wow or perhaps make me feel a million dollars. Cinderella had the right idea – she knew the right pair of shoes could change your life. So too Maggie and Rose in the 2005 film, In Her Shoes. The value of a good pair of shoes is immeasurable; priceless even.

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Maggie Feller: Shoes like these should not be locked in a closet! They should be living a life of scandal, and passion, and getting screwed in an alleyway by a billionaire while his frigid wife waits in the limo thinking that he just went back into the bar to get his cellphone. These are cute too.

Rose Feller: Please tell me you just made that up.

Maggie Feller: Look, if you’re not going to wear them… don’t buy them! Leave them for someone who’s going to get something out of them.

Rose Feller: I get something out of them! When I feel bad I like to treat myself. Clothes never look any good… food just makes me fatter… shoes always fit.

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Now, while I don’t believe you should be in any alleyways with billionaires, the power a pair of shoes can hold to an individual is clear. They rock.

Which is why it makes me so sad to have to part with so many of my shiny, pretty, cute, sexy, stunning shoes. There is the pair of strappy metallic heels with the cigarette thin heel I wore to my 21st birthday party. The hot pink and lime green sandals I bought with one of my first real paychecks. The snakeskin pumps that make me reminisce for my days in advertising and the ridiculously high wooden heels I only wore once, but it was to an editorial meeting for Onya Magazine where I was introduced as Fashion Editor. What about the black patent pumps with bows I rocked at a job interview where I met my mentor? Or the silver satin peeptoes I walked down the aisle in at my friends wedding? 

Wittner ‘Sister’ shoes at my 26th birthday party at Honey. I also wore these ones to Rochelle’s wedding, the first time I met my boyfriends’ friends and to the MSFW opening party in 2009. I’m not selling these ones. They are still too awesome to part with.

And there are so, so many more shoes, and still more memories to go with them. As I listed them on eBay yesterday, my heart felt heavy and as I put each shoe on one last time and sighed, before I clicked ‘proceed to sell’.

My twenties are nearly over, and with it, my carefree days of doing terrible things to my back and feet, dancing on 7 inch stilettos or wandering around Melbourne in heels that are likely to cause serious ankle damage if you misstep in a cobblestone laneway. Together with my gumboots purchase last week and my trusty TOMS, my feet may breathe a sign of relief but in my heart, I will always be a high heels girl.

Want to buy my shoes? The first batch are listed on eBay here, and there are more to come – about 40 pairs in all. If the shoe fits (and it helps if you are a size 7!), BUY IT!!