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I'm not much of a consumer, and I work hard at being a very conscious consumer. I'm not a shopper, and for the most part I only buy things that I need (I still have bowls that were in the apartment I moved into in Montreal in 1999, despite the fact that they were never mine in the first place, and are from the dollar store).

Where I fall down, though, is shoes. This is not your stereotyped "all women are crazy for shoes" story, though. I don't like shoes. I kind of hate shoes a lot of the time. And shoe shopping drives me crazy. But I'd bet that about half the shoes I buy get worn three times before being sent to Goodwill, not because I'm fickle and easily bored (...although I often am), but because shoes are nasty evil things that hurt my feet and give me blisters and make me cry. Evil! Also sneaky, because I always *think* they're going to be comfortable, as I walk around the store in them. And then, fail.

This post brought to you by the sandals that I'm attempting to break in a work today even though they gave me blisters last time I wore them, but I really don't think it's too much to ask that I have 2 pairs of sandals that I can comfortably wear, especially since I hate wearing the same shoes everyday, and one of these days it's going to be hot enough outside that I can't fake it by wearing sneaks.

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Yeah, I don't do the shoe thing. I have three pairs of boots, and one pair of sandals that were necessitated by a trip to Arizona, home of 110 degree heat. Even then I wore my boots instead. I prefer to live in bare feet, and when I was in The Village I would drive bare foot, teach bare foot... and then inadvertently have to go to the pub (post-class outing) bare foot, too. I can remember walking to the village shop at the age of seven or eight in bare feet, too.

Your consumer vs shopper approach is very inspiring! I hope you and your sandals can come to some kind of amicable agreement.

I used to wear boots all the time, and then they rebelled against me and gave me achilles tendonitis, so now I have to be very careful about shoes/boots that go up past my ankles. Sigh.

WEll, that is just unecessarily cruel!