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I can't keep my shoes tied to save my life. I feel like a toddler. They will come untied within 5-10 minutes of tying them unless they're double knotted.
I've done my best to get rid of shoes with laces in my life because it's both humiliating and so frustrating
To be fair, most people don't know how to tie their shoes. They think they do but they're doing a "granny knot" which is much more likely to become undone than the square knot they're intending to do. Some of my shoes still have the same knot I tied when I first bought them.
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If you do end up in shoes you need to tie. The issue may be that when you tie your shoes the knot is a granny knot instead of a square knot. To make the square knot,
take both strands Pass left around right Make a loop with the left and wrap the right lace over and around and pull through as a bow.
You can check if you got it, depend on if the bow is straight across side-to-side. If the bow ears are crooked or up-down, it is a granny knot. You can undo the last step and wrap the opposite direction. Hope this helps!
Look into products like “lock laces”. I can tie my shoes but I hate doing it (I’d rather slip my shoes on and they never stay tied or tight anyway). Elastic laces with a cinch works great.