Apple Box to Walking Boot Carrier in 5mins (an End to Mud in the Back of Your Car and Stinky Boots in an Old Plastic Bag)

This Instructable is for you, if you go hill walking a lot and have muddy boots and have ever suffered from any the following:

• Muddy Boots rolling around in the back of your car.
• The plastic bag which either rips, because it's cheap, or your boots are so large they hardly fit.
• You leave your boots in the plastic bag after the tip - only to return weeks later to find they have gone really sweaty and horrible, or worse still they have damaged the leather/fabric.
• Regretted seeing Apple Boxes thrown away :(

(It also means you/your local supermarket will not need to trash a good solid box...Earth Day points to you!).

YOU WILL NEED:
- Walking Boots
- 1 Apple Box (which your walking boots can fit into on their side).
- A Knife/Scissors.
- A Pencil.
- [optional], glue/tape/zip-tie.
- 5 Mins. Probably less. In fact it probably takes longer to read my overly detailed Instructable!

YOU WILL NOT NEED:
- Special Tools
- Fancy skills with cardboard (though you can visit Design Modelling, if you would like them).

Anyway – read on for ingenious cardboard solution to walking boot storage and how YOU can make one too…

Grab a box from your recysling (or your neighbours), (or a supermarket).

Check your boots fit in the side - as show.

Cut down the sides of the box, in the middle, as shown. 

Make a fold in the middle. Either
- by just bending it with force.
- by cutting out a little fillet of card, as shown.... make sit easier to bend.

If you like, you could join the sides together more securely.

I used a Zip-Tie, but you could use tape or glue, etc.

Measure out a comfortable handle side.

Cut out carefully, through both sides.

Tidy it up a bit.

Because you're a Pro.

Spread the cardboard Earth-Day excitement!

If you'd like to learn more Cardboard skills, please check out Design Modelling - Techniques.

Or take a look at my Cardboard Raspberry Pi Case - Instructable.

Thanks for taking a look, let me know how you get on.

Cheers,
Jude