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Shoes are a very personal thing; we spend a lot of time in them, they are a reflection of ourselves, they protect us, they are molded to your foot and no one else’s…

To lend our shoes to someone it is almost as though we are lending a part of ourselves. It takes a lot of trust to lend a friend shoes and they must take on a lot of responsibility when borrowing them.

If you’ve ever seen the film In Her Shoes you will know that some people are precious with their footwear, and others are far less careful. But should we be shoepersticious? Surely a friendship isn’t guaranteed to end when a friend borrows shoes, we just need to take the following into account:

+ Look at how your buddy looks after her own footwear- does she keep them clean? Does she put them in a safe place at night instead of kicking them   off  anywhere?

+ Is your friend hygienic? Does she shower regularly and take care of her feet?

+ Have you lent anything to her before? Has she returned it?

+ Does she have a tendency to go on spontaneous muddy bushwalks after a night partying in her own heels?

The general consensus here at Mischief is that if your friend is trustworthy, it can be appropriate for her to borrow shoes however lending casual shoes is far less common than lending shoes for special occasions. If your shoes go perfectly with her cocktail dress and you know she will look after them, go for it. However if you feel that you have doubts and are precious about your heels, keep them in the closet.

One morning this week I was running late for the train. I had no time to eat breakfast or have my morning plunger, so I grabbed a ginger beer from the fridge and ran along trying to drink it (and instead spilling it on myself) I made it to the train and got to my meeting just on time. By the time I met with my colleagues I had forgotten about the sticky ginger mess all over my dress. They pointed, they laughed, and I moaned about how I had tried to run and drink at the same time. This isn’t the first time I have attempted the sprinty-drinky challenge and not the first time I have found my clothes glued to me on my lunch break.

But what’s a girl to do?

Once the laughter had stopped, my workmates told me that there is a solution to this issue. Ginger beer ice blocks. GINGER BEER. ICE BLOCKS. I ran across the street and got one instantly.

The Ice Bar Collective know all the answers to my problems, and I have truly fallen in love with their debut range. Not only is there a ginger beer flavour, but there’s a lemon lime and bitters and an old fashioned lemonade!

It’s so nice to have an ice block designed just for a grown up. There’s no crazy colour, no bubble gum nose, and no nonsense candy drops. I thought about all the new opportunities that the Ice Bar Co have created for me. I went home and put an Old Fashioned Lemonade ice block into a glass and poured a beer over it – SHANDY!!

My clothes are no longer sticky, running is no longer tricky, with ginger beer on a stick, I get anywhere quick... no mess for around two dollars fifty!