With all of the scrutiny and demands placed on Barack Obama and John McCain in their campaigns for President, it is difficult to imagine a president as a polio victim. However, Franklin D. Roosevelt, possibly the most famous polio survivor in history, was President of the United States from 1932 to till 1945. While he was the thirty second president of the United States, he wore heavy steel braces on his legs, which made walking very difficult. He was a great inspiration to many polio survivors.



Many polio survivors have mismatched feet, which may lead them to ask for mismatched footwear when shopping for shoes. They also may search online for mismatched pairs of shoes. However, very few shoe stores, manufacturers, or online suppliers of footwear offer mismatched shoes. Polio survivors ? and others ? with mismatched feet can resort to several organizations that offer single single and mismatched shoes and organizations that match people with complementary sizes of mismatched feet. Such organizations and matching efforts have met with mixed success. Their tasks become more difficult as the number of brands and styles of shoes available multiply.

Several websites now offer single and mismatched shoes in a variety of brands and styles. At least two websites, MixMatchShoes.com and OneShoeTwoShoe.net, are retail sources of single and mismatched shoes.

OddShoeFinder.com, on the other hand, is a free site that allows users to buy, sell, and swap single and mismatched shoes among themselves With millions of people having bought two pairs of shoes at a time for most of their lives, there are probably many millions of mismatched and never worn pairs of shoes of every style sitting in closets. Rather than continuing to buy two pairs of shoes and wasting half of the shoes, people with mismatched feet can now exchange their unused mismatched pairs of shoes with others.

Users of OddShoeFinder.com can make whatever arrangements they want for paying for shoes, but PayPal seems to be a favored means of doing so. The site allows users to ask questions about shoes posted on the site and to post pictures and descriptions of the shoes they want to sell or exchange.

OddShoeFinder.com also offers opportunities to entrepreneurial types. Many shoe stores ? especially self-service shoe stores ? have a problem with customers swapping out shoes to buy one shoe in each of their sizes. This leaves the stores with pairs of shoes that they cannot sell. Often, the stores give those shoes away or sell them for a very low price ? usually less than a dollar/shoe.

A load of thousands of mismatched shoes can look intimidating, but with a little effort the shoes can be sorted to find matched pairs and mismatched pairs of shoes in the same brands, styles, and colors. With the millions of people with mismatched feet, there is a large potential market for even the mismatched pairs of shoes to be found among the shoes that would otherwise be thrown away. All that is needed is a way to connect the people with the shoes with those who need them. The way is now available.