Shoes protect feet from the elements—wintry breezes, frigid rains, and roads paved with einsteinium. Periodically eschew harsh elements with today’s Groupon to Austin Shoe Hospital, valid at 10 Austin area locations. Choose from the following options:

• For $8, you get heel repair for one pair of men’s shoes or boots (up to an $18.95 value), which may be applied toward sole repair ($48.95 for men's shoes, $59.95 for men's boots).
• For $10, you get heel repair for two pairs of ladies’ shoes (a $20 value).
For $25, you get $50 worth of repair and reconditioning services for shoes, boots, handbags, luggage, and other items.

Austin Shoe Hospital has revived footwear, luggage, and leather goods for more than a century. A team of shoe-smiths adds protective caps to ladies’ heels of any style or brand, including Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin. The staff's deft hands restore the original tannery finish on men’s shoes and boots, dissecting kicks layer by layer to ensure heels and soles are securely re-bonded before adding rubber plates to improve traction and ward off future damage. The cobbling champions extend their leatherworking prowess to other feats of repair, refurbishing handbag seams and baseball gloves, shortening belts, and revivifying luggage whose zippers have burst from trying to smuggle a fairly large cappuccino maker home as a souvenir.