the shoemaker's children go barefoot

== English == === Pronunciation === === Proverb === the shoemaker's children go barefoot One often neglects those closest to oneself; a tradesman may ironically neglect or postpone his own home's need for his trade's services. ==== Synonyms ==== the cobbler's children are the worst shod the cobbler's children go barefoot the cobbler's children have no shoes the shoemaker's son always goes barefoot ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== cobbler, keep to your last shoemaker, stick to your last === References === John Heywood (1538), chapter XI, in Proverbes, Part I, page 147 Robert Burton (1621), The Anatomy of Melancholy, page 2112