Helpful Hints from joeeze: How to keep your running shoes from stinking up your home

"To keep shoes from smelling to high heaven, place untreated charcoal (the cheap kind that is almost impossible to light) in a muslin bag, and then place inside the shoe. The charcoal will absorb the eau de stinky feet. Replace as needed."

"But where do I get small muslin bags?" you ask.

That's why you have me.

35 cents and up apiece (depending on size) right here.

For everything else, there's MasterCard.

[via Louisa Jaggar and the Washington Post]
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STOP PRESS

This just in 18 minutes ago (6:04 p.m.) from Flautist in the Comments section:

No, no, no. I'll probably get a whippin' for saying this, but all that muslin and charcoal stuff is just not necessary. My five or six pair of walking/jogging shoes that I rotate had to be left out in the garage because my cat kept trying to cover them up. I purchased Odor Eaters "with Zorbitex technology." (You HAVE to use the kind with Zorbitex or nothing will happen. Odor eaters without Zorbitex is like, well I don't know, but something that needs something else really bad or it won't work.) Just sprinkle in shoes before use.

This Odor Eaters smells like honeysuckle and keeps my shoes non-lethal and my cat non-frantic. My shoes can stay right by my favorite chair in my hanging-out area and not offend. (There is a lot of talk on the bottle [jar? can?] that says it absorbs its weight in sweat, blah-blah, but it doesn't do that for me. My feet just sweat right on in my shoes with a vengeance. But now the shoes don't stink, sweaty or not.) I went and bought six bottles of the powder (I never use the spray) because I KNOW they're going to tamper with perfection and put something in there, or take something out, that will make it not work at all, or make things smell even worse.

Get some now, while it's good and they haven't screwed it up.

And that's all she had to say — about that.

$4.54 will get you a 6-oz. bottle [jar? can?] of Flautist-approved™ Odor Eaters Foot Powder with Zorbitex™ technology.