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Here is a video of a hockey player warming up before a game sporting his Crocs.

We receive pictures from fellow Croc Fans all the time, and here are some of our latest.

Here is Chris wrestling a Croc on his 25th birthday wearing his Crete Crocs at Gatorland in Florida. Great action shot Chris!

Andrea and her son sporting their Sage Crocs.

Allison and her niece showing their matching Yellow Crocs with Jibbitz.

We love hearing from you and seeing your pictures of you in your Crocs. Send us your most creative Crocs pictures and we will post them for the world to enjoy. Send your photos to Crocs@littlerubbershoes.com.

We decided to take all our Crocs and put them in the pool to share with the world. We hope you like. I guess we have quite a few Crocs. What do you think?

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We would like to officially welcome Mr. President Bush to the world of Croc Fans. If they are good enough for him, they are good enough for me!

I can’t tell, but it looks like he has a pair of Presidential Crocs Socks as well.

UPDATE!

President Bush also was given a pair of Colorado Buffaloes Crocs by the Colorado Men’s Cross Country National Championship Team.

3 years ago my wife came to me and told me about a new pair of shoes called Crocs. She said these shoes are going to be big. And like a good husband I listened to her. As it turned out, my wife predicted one of the biggest cultural, apparel, and marketing phenomenons of our time.

After she brought home a pair, I was hooked and that is how this blog started. On August 21st 2005 I registered littlerubbershoes.com and started this blog about Crocs. Little did I know that nearly 3 years later I would still be posting about these silly shoes, but here I am.

In January 2006, I posted about the pending Crocs stock IPO. Oh, if I only knew then what I now know today…

You would think a guy inspired enough to create a fan blog devoted to a pair of rubber shoes would be inspired enough to purchase a couple of shares of their stock. Well if only that were the case.

$1000 dollars would have bought about 40 shares back in Feburary 2005. Today those 40 shares would be worth $3,647 or 3.6x return (Today’s Closing Price $91.18).

Well, since we are at it, let’s rub some more salt in my mis-calculation on how going about capitalizing on this priceless prediction by my wife by calculating the total opportunity cost/time for setting up and maintaining this littlerubbershoes.com blog:

5 hours - Blog setup and general maintenance

15 mins. - Time it takes to research and write the average blog post

132 - Blog posts.

$35 / hr. - My approx. salary hourly rate

$30 Domain Registration

$300 Web Hosting

(10 x (5+33 hours) x $35) + $30 + $300

$13,630 Total Opportunity Cost of Blog

Instead of taking 5 minutes to login to ETrade.com and to purchase CROX to make an easy 3.6x on a stock investment, I decided to spent $13,300 in opportunity cost by starting a fan blog. In addition to this, you might even consider that this blog (111,000 Unique Visitors in last 12 months) actually in a small way may have helped the stock price by furthering the Crocs brand value and spreading the Crocs message.

So, in summary…

My wife predicted Crocs would be BIG. Crocs are huge. Crocs are everywhere. Crocs are worth 3.64 Billion Dollars. Crocs stock is $91. And I have a Fan Site about rubber shoes. My wife still loves me, but wishes I would have gone the ETrade route.

All things considered… I have had fun with the site as this was my first blog. I have no regrets and I will probably continue to blog about Crocs. I have been able to get to know hundreds of fellow Croc Fans from around the world and helped spread the love for a truly great shoe that I wear every time I go work in the yard.

My Full Disclosures. I do not work for Crocs. I have never worked for Crocs. I have never met anyone who has worked for Crocs except I think an employee posted in our Crocs Forum. I have never recieved any free products from Crocs. I do not own any Crocs stock nor have I ever owned any Crocs stock. I don’t think I will ever own Crocs stock given the current price (unless the good folks at Crocs feel generous and want to thank one of their biggest supporters!). I do wish I had purchased Crocs stock back in early 2006.

Given all of that, I must say I have been able to pay for my blog expenses plus a little extra through the advertising on the site. Thank you to our advertisers Tillys.com and the other sponsors listed in the right column of the site..

If you have enjoyed littlerubbershoes.com over the past couple of years, let us know by leaving a comment, visiting our sponsors, bookmarking the site, subscribing to our RSS feed, and checkout Shop For Crocs where you can comparison shop for all styles of Crocs

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A school in the Boston area wants to ban Crocs from the school citing a safety concern. According to the news report school officials at the Thompson Elementary School in North Andover sent notes home with some of the children telling them to leave the “loose-fitting shoes” at home.

The school nurse reported an increase in injuries as a result of Crocs slipping off kids feet while on the playground. I am all for personal responsibility, and when it comes to children, parents need to make appropriate decisions about what their kids shouldn’t wear, but is this crossing the line. I’m not saying the school should or should not dictate what the kids can and cannot wear. I just think our society is a little too lawsuit happy and I just see this as the school district trying to cover themselves. I’m not saying the school does not have the best interest of the kids in mind, I just think we are becoming a bunch of wimps.

Leave us a comment and tell me your thoughts.

Does anyone have any more information on this Crocs Design Competition? I came across these photos on Flickr, but I had not heard about it. Please let us know as we would love to learn more about it and see more photos.

See more of these Crocs Design Competition Photos.

Photos By Amsk

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Crocs has done something that very few companies have been able to do. They have created a product that has inspired people to do their advertising for them. This is what every marketing department dreams of for their brand and product.

They have a blog devoted to Crocs, people creating Crocs videos, and posting photos of their Crocs on the internet. Here are some of my favorite videos we’ve recently found on the web. Feel free to comment below.

Mac Spoof with Crocs by TomStubbs

Crocs Can Do Anything! by gollumses

Crocs Rock by helenback50

User Created Commercial for Crocs by daoxing

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I am excited to announce that Crocs will be launching a new line of shoes under the “You By Crocs” Name. The announcement came yesterday.

This marks the first time (if you don’t count the Crocs Sassari) Crocs have expanded into the high fashion footwear market for women.

You By Crocs will initially feature 9 styles including wedged heels, boots, and lifted flats. Leather, suede and lamb wool along with the famous Crocs material Croslite material footbed for fashionable comfort.

The new You By Crocs will be available in September and will range in price from $149 to $299.

Checkout the new styles and tell us what you think by leaving a comment below.

Read more about You By Crocs here:
Wall Street Journal
Fibre2Fashion.com
Street Insider
CNBC
MSN Money

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