Saddle Up for a Boot Revival with Rub ‘N Restore

Hi. I have a problem. Thrift store shopping is my vice. I can’t stop purchasing gently used cowboy boots. Thank the Lord for Eco-friendly leather repair products. They help me restore all those vintage cowboy boots to their boot-scootin’ glory. Yes, Taylor Swift may have been talking about me when she sang, “Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.”

“I should not be left to my own devices
They come with prices and vices” 

As in the price of so many pairs of gently loved cowboy boots that sit waiting for my dirty hiker feet in my closet. Eco-friendly leather repair products are my drug of choice for keeping my arts and craft self feeling fulfilled on springtime afternoons as I gently Rub N Restore my way to a closet full of beautifully loved second-hand cowboy boots, without Lucesi’s price tags.

These boots right here were made for walking, right into the woods of the eastern Sierras. I love these gently used cowboy boots that I picked up at a steal from my favorite thrift stores in the Los Angeles suburbs. Yes, I paid six dollars for them on sale, then I refurbished them and updated the color with these awesome Rub N Restore products. How do I love Rub N Restore, let me count the ways.

Boots, boots boots

I’m from the era where you used to be able to buy spray paint at a craft store without being looked at as the Martha Stewart of gangsters. I grew up with radios, learning to drive a stick shift, and playing outdoors. I’ve been playing in the woods since I was eight years old and I basically never stopped. Having a retro-looking pair of gently used cowboy boots on my feet as I stroll through the woods with my adventure dog is how I do life.

It’s early spring. The sun is peeking through my organic garden, birds are chirping and the Norwegian Forest Cats are stalking them from behind the chicken wire of the catio. This is springtime at 7,000 feet in a mountain resort town. It’s a slow time of year for business, which gives me time to hike around in the woods in my favorite vintage cowboy boots, spend time with my animals, and just maybe do some Eco-friendly leather repair products craft projects. I love me some crafting. Hobby Lobby is my crackhouse. This springtime, I—fueled by a dangerous combo of iced espresso lattes and TikTok DIY inspiration—decided it’s time to Marie Kondo the ever-loving crap out of my house. And by that, I mean: finally deal with the sad, cracked, depressed-looking leather couches that have seen more life than RFK JR has seen beach days.

Enter: Rub ‘n Restore, the miracle workers of the leather and vinyl world, and possibly the only people on Earth who can make you feel like Martha Stewart with a hot glue gun and a dream. Take that once beautiful leather couch that was deeply destroyed by a few generations of cats’ claws! I swear, looking at the way this gently loved leather was restored to its former glory, you would never know this is a house full of kitty cats with a bad attitude. (And a lot of love)

Eco-friendly leather repair products came to the rescue!

What Is Rub ‘n Restore?

When searching for Eco-friendly leather repair products, look no further!

This family-owned small business carries only the most amazing DIY leather and vinyl restoration product since…Well ever. Rub ‘n Restore is eco-friendly, insanely easy to use, and practically foolproof. They make leather and vinyl repair dyes, finishes, and conditioners that make old stuff look new, tired things look trendy, and thrift store scores look like designer goods you had shipped in from Paris. Or at least Nashville when it comes to my cowboy boot collection. Break out those used Ariats, it’s time to get crafty with Eco-friendly leather repair products!

Oh—and you can purchase their great product straight through their website and not on Amazon. Why? Because they’re cool and independent, and because Amazon already has enough of my money, thank you very much. If I wanted to line Jeff Bezos’s pockets, well, I wouldn’t. That asshole already has a rocket ship, I think his mega corporations have already taken enough of my paycheck home.

I mean, these days, who is not looking for small business alternatives to Amazon?

Why You Should Buy Direct (Stick It to the Algorithm)

When you buy directly from RubnRestore.com, three magical things happen:

1. You support a small business that actually gives a crap about the planet. Small business alternatives to Amazon are a great way to give back to your local community.

2 . You get access to all their juicy, idiot-proof tutorials, step-by-step guides, and color-matching wizardry.

3. You keep your money out of Amazon’s robotic clutches. Instead help fund things like customer service that doesn’t sound like it was written by ChatGPT’s evil twin.

What Can You Rub N Restore?

Literally everything except your cat. (Don’t try it. I checked.)

You can use Rub ‘n Restore on:

Leather couches: (mine are 15 years old and now look like I bought them straight from a high-end furniture store, not the Craigslist Free section in 2011). Eco-friendly leather repair products were so easy to use and we get so many compliments now on how great these couches look! These awesome updated couches, once cat-scratch-damaged half to death, now look new again. These are a great product for all your pet-damaged leather products in your living room.

Car interiors: Make those old leather seats look new again!

Vinyl bar stools: These Eco-friendly leather repair products are so easy to use. And you can even upgrade the color!

Thrifted boots that smelled like Grandpa’s attic: I’ll admit it. I own a lot of cowboy boots. Rub N Restore products help me keep them looking walkable.

Designer handbags that took a dive off the backseat into a puddle of Starbucks latte: Don’t donate those handbags so fast! Just update them with these great eco-friendly leather repair products

Basically, anything leather or vinyl that looks like it’s been through a frat party

Boot Scootin’ Brilliance: Make Old Cowboy Boots Look New Again

So I’m at my favorite thrift store (because I am a certified Bargain Queen), and I find these gently used cowboy boots for—wait for it—six bucks. SIX. That’s basically free if you count the change I found in the dryer last week.

Sure, they were a little scuffed. A little faded. A little “I just got back from a rodeo where a sheep stepped on me.” But with Rub ‘n Restore and about an hour of TLC (plus a Keto French Toast snack break, because I don’t operate on an empty stomach), they now look like I paid $200 at a boutique named after a cactus.

Thanks to these great Eco-friendly leather repair products, I’ll be sporting my snazzy-looking cowboy boots as I relax at my campsite this weekend.  It’s not camping if you are not relaxing in gently loved cowboy boots by the fire, right?

Why Recycled Fashion Is the New Black

Here’s the thing: fashion is wasteful. Like, really wasteful. Americans throw out nearly 11 million tons of textiles every year. That’s basically the weight of everyone’s childhood trauma stacked into a landfill.

So if I can rescue a couch, a pair of boots, or a vinyl chair from becoming landfill lasagna, and do it in a way that looks high-end AND create an awesome DIY Instagram story to show others that yes, we can all be more sustainable in our retail choices, I’m all in.

These Boots Were Made for Restorin’

I’m not what you’d call “crafty.” I have the attention span of a goldfish and the fine motor skills of a drunken squirrel. And yet—I brought these pieces back to life with nothing more than: A sponge. A bottle of Rub ‘n Restore. And a kitchen pastry brush. (Yes, the neurotic squirrel in me, couldn’t find a paintbrush) I also used a helpful YouTube video. Blind, caffeine-fueled optimism. If I can do it? Anyone can.

I did learn the hard way that turning black leather boots beige is not easy. In fact I don’t recommend this. As soon as I put the boots on and headed straight to my favorite hiking trail, the black was coming through at the seams. Lessandra, from Rub N Restore, did tell me that it would happen. That is the thing; when you buy from small business alternatives to Amazon, you get hands-on customer service! Of course, I should have inquired before I started on my first boot project but I was like a squirrel with a nut and got carried away! So I moved on to cowboy boot pair number two and these turned out just fabulous!

If you’ve got:

• A couch that looks like it fought a bear.
• A jacket that’s seen better decades.
• Or a wild urge to make your stuff look designer without selling a kidney,

Then head to RubnRestore.com and grab yourself a bottle of the good stuff. Your furniture (and your wallet) will thank you.

If you really love the Earth this Earth Day, don’t buy that pair of $300 Steve Madden boots at Nordstrom. Pick up a gently used pair of cowboy boots at your favorite thrift store, and buy some Lagoon from Rub N Restore. Vinyl and leather repair at home is so very easy.

And seriously—don’t buy it on Amazon. You deserve better. Rub ‘n Restore deserves better. Jeff Bezos already has a rocket ship. Let’s all calm down.