Being a cobbler is no easy task

My mother used to tell my sisters that they spent money on shoes unnecessarily since she could not understand how someone would have a whole bag full of unused shoes even though they were not that old; neither did I understand how they could have so many shoes to give away.

At the time I had only three pairs of shoes, one of them being school shoes, the second one I used to wear while working with my mother at home while my mother kept the other ones for special occasions. I was allowed to wear them only when we went to town, a party or a wedding ceremony.