Have you ever owned shoe trees?

[lavagal]

Re: Have you ever owned shoe trees?

Once you try to get the luau feet into a pair of shoes, you find out what a shoe tree is.

[scrivener]

Hello. I'm reading aloud to my students the excellent and funny A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony. As you know, Anthony has a fondness for bad puns (one year, his Christmas cards had harpies on the front and "harpy holidays" on the inside), and in the first chapter of this first installment of the Xanth series is a description of how the main character had plucked his shoes fresh from a shoe tree.

My students didn't get the joke, because they didn't know what a shoe tree is.

So my question, dear friends, is whether or not you've ever owned a shoe tree. I never have, but I do have a good pair of shoes that would benefit from them, so I have often considered it.