Rafi:

Oh my god, did that bring me back in time. I was 18 when these things came out. It was not well received by the general public. It was a novelty thing. They cost something like $1.99 (this was when I made $65 a week salary). But of course I had to buy them.

I remember people bought them so they would not get any tan lines.

I bought a pair. I remember thinking. "Oh my god, it looks like I'm walking barefoot." The instructions said "these can be re-used over and over, the adhesive will keep on working". They did not. So I dumped them.

But if you have a foot problem and you can't stand having anything on the tops of your feet, these would be perfect. Especially for around the house. It's like slippers with no top.

The only drawback is, let's say you want to go out for a walk and it' summer time, it's nice and warm, so you just attach these topless things to the bottom of your feet, and you go outside.

Do you have any idea, that if I did this, how many of my neighbors would walk up to me and say "oh my god, how can you go outside on the sidewalk with no shoes on?" Then I would just lift up my foot and go "oh yeah??, take a look, topless sandals". I would pay to see the look on their faces.

The only reason I don't get myself a pair of these is that I remember wearing them when I was younger, and when I went outside (I didn't care what people thought in those days), the shoe kept getting unstuck to the bottom of my foot, and I would have to stop dead in my tracks, press my weight on the feet and they would re-stick.

Tell me Rafi, have they improved the making of these topless things?? Have you tried them, and is the adhesive nowadays a better working adhesive? These sound like something all of us PN'ers who don't want anything on the toes, well these sound great (for the house I mean). I would hesitate to go anywhere wearing these outside because I'd be afraid of banging my feet, or my toes or having something fall on my toes. But for around the house, my god, these sound better than slippers.

Let me know. $10 is nothing these days if these things work.

And kudos to you for designing your own shoes. You are brilliant.

I hooked up something yesterday myself. See, I have problems with arthritic hands. I can't pick up anything heavy, or any glass.

So I don't buy soda bottles (even though they are plastic, I might drop them).

So what does a person do when they want a cold drink and they don't want to be taking out a big heavy pitcher of stuff in the fridge. We also don't drink anything carbonated so we don't buy soda in cans.

So what did I do?? I found an old 2 gallon dispenser of PUR water . I used to use it with the PUR water filters. Haven't used this thing in years. It was on the top of one of my cabinets.

I took it down. Washed it and said to myself "now, if water can go in this, why can't my Cranberry Pomegranate Drink stuff go in this"?? What I've been doing is making a big pitcher of the 4C Cranberry Pomegranate drink (kind of like Crysal Lite but without the nutrasweet). This stuff has splenda, is full of anti-oxidants, has no carbonation and I love it. But when you have to make pitcher after pitcher, well it's hard on the hands.

So, this PUR water dispense system has a spigot. So I made up a big batch of the cranberry pomegranate drink, I poured the whole thing into the spigot dispense system. Alan put it in the fridge. It's very long and narrow, so it doesn't take up any width. It just nicely sits on the left side inside of my fridge.

So whenever Alan or I want a glass of this drink during the day, we just go to the refrigerator, take a cup, put it directly under the spigot thing, pull back the spigot (think Beer at a bar when the bartender takes a glass and puts beer into it), so the liquid goes into the cup, you release the spigot thing, you have your glass of ice cold whatever you are drinking, and I close the fridge. No more heavy pitchers coming in and out of the refrigerator. No more mixing up pitchers every other day. This thing will hold and dispense 2 to 3 days of this drink.

Best thing I ever thought of. Alan goes "now why didn't we think of this a long time ago"????. Takes up no more than 5 inches of width and it's long so it goes all the way into the back of the refrigerator. I'm going to take a picture so you know what I'm talking about.





So any of you guys who have the challenges of arthritis in your hands and some days it's hard to even open your hands, you just buy a dispenser with a spigot, fill it up with your favorite beverage, put it in the fridge and you're good to go. I know me, I'll have this in my fridge for the rest of my existence. Makes life a whole lot easier. I mean, who has the hand strength to be picking up pitchers of soda, or drink mixes and your hands hurt, and you might even drop stuff.

Just wanted to share.

Melody (the inventor), lol