I recently took my snow boots out of the closet due to a storm. While walking around in them I realized that the part of the boot near the ankle had been bent more than it should've and that I needed to find a solution. I've always kept shoe trees in them to help with the foot section, but hadn't really thought about the leg part before. After checking out some of the various items on Amazon I came across these Household Essentials CedarFresh Boot Shapers and decided to give them a try. I liked that these came in a set of 4, which meant that we could store 2 pairs of boots.

These boot shapers are maybe 1/64", including the ridges on them, which are much thinner than what I was imaging a "boot shaper" to be. After bending them a little I thought that maybe I could use the top half that gets removed when converting to a "small" boot to help give some added strength. Since I knew these inserts weren't going to help straighten out the boot that really needed it I used the rice method for that boot and put the insert into the other boot, which includes the "small" boot section and the top section that gets discarded.

A couple of days ago I decided to check the status of both boots and the insert has already taken quite the shape, much quicker than anticipated. We have owned these boot shapers for less than two weeks to date, which means that not only are they super thin, but they are not able to keep their shape and won't do much good for helping the boots they're used for.

The only thing that these Household Essentials Boot Shaper Form Inserts might be good for would be boots that are unable to keep their shape when you're not wearing them, but not for any type of storage. If you think for even a moment that you'll be using these to store your boots for any duration of time, then I'd recommend looking elsewhere. I'll be using these with rice inserted to help shape them, as I don't want to just throw these away.