Shoe lace holder

A shoe lace holder to assist in the tying of shoe laces and to prevent shoe laces inadvertently coming undone during use, the shoe lace holder includes a unitary body member having no moving parts and having a top surface and bottom surface defined by a front edge, back edge and side edges;

• the body member including:
• a) at least one first central hole adapted to accommodate and to allow a shoe lace to pass there through;
• b) two slots, where each slot is axially aligned relative to another and each slot extends in the opposite direction relative to the other slot, each slot extends toward a side edge of the body member, each slot is configured and adapted to frictionally engage and hold a portion of the lace therein in so to prevent the shoe lace from inadvertently untying during use of the shoe by a user and an end of at least one of the slots opens into the first central hole, each slot is aligned with and each slot extends in a direction outwardly from the at least one first central hole;
• c) at least one second central hole adapted to accommodate and to allow a shoe lace to pass there through;
• and
• d) at least two further holes spaced apart from one another towards and adjacent a side edge of the body member, the two further holes adapted to accommodate and allow a shoe lace to pass there through, wherein when attached to a shoe, the shoe lace holder in combination with the respective holes and slots engaging with the lace interweaved therein prevents a shoe lace from inadvertently untying during use of the shoe by a user, wherein the shoe lace is secured to the shoe lace holder frictionally engaging the lace and holding within the slots to prevent the shoe lace from inadvertent untying.