The evolution of a skate shoe

I'm afraid the pic is going to be so small that you can't see it, but this is what your entry way looks like when the skaters converge on your house for Christmas break. If it's visible in the pic, you'll see that when the shoes are new, they are nice looking shoes. Then they get skated in. Then they generally have to go with some new shoe strings. Any color will do. Then it progresses to shoe goo, patching the holes. None of these are to the giving of last rights stage yet. Give it another week though!