LU, I’ll chip in double-chai for your cause!
Joseph, wow it sounds like you’re so careful to guard your eyes that you won’t even step inside a shopping mall or shoe store to get your shoes shined.
Good news, there’s an online shoe repair site where you can send in your shoes for shining. They mail them back looking brand new. It might even cost less than $2,500. You can do this all while being here in the CR too 🙂