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View submission: Hard-and-fast rules
Buy good shoes. Cheap shoes hurt your feet. And they fall apart before good shoes. Sore feet make life miserable. I used to work where I stood on concrete floors for 8 hours a day. I bought a pair of Doc Marten shoes and they changed my life. My feet no longer hurt. My back pains lessened.
Comment by HoselRockit at 06/02/2025 at 14:58 UTC*
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Twenty years ago a co-worker was complaining that his feet hurt because he was breaking in a new pair of dress shoes. I asked him about the shoes and it turns out they were a really cheap pair. I told him to get a certain brand name shoe that cost three times more but will last much longer, and they have no break in period. To this day he still brings up that conversation.
Comment by bentnotbroken96 at 06/02/2025 at 17:47 UTC
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Anything that goes between you and the ground - shoes, mattress, tires etc. should never be cheaped out on.
Comment by LiberryPrincess at 06/02/2025 at 17:28 UTC
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Also buy good bras, kind of the same reasoning.
Comment by nakedonmygoat at 06/02/2025 at 15:22 UTC
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Overall, this is true, and it's why at work, I kept my heels under my desk at the office so I could put them on before meetings, but otherwise I wore flats.
However, there are highly specific circumstances where you should buy cheap shoes. I worked on staff at a large university, and there was no such thing as close parking below the level of an AVP. After a rain, pathways were often full of deep puddles and there wasn't always a way around. I ruined many a pair of good shoes before I wised up and started wearing the cheapest shoes I could find for the walk in to the office. I had rain boots, but rain boots are stiff, so they don't really work for everyday. Many of my female colleagues wore flip-flops from car to office because they had learned what I learned.
Comment by notetaker193 at 06/02/2025 at 17:56 UTC
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There is an old adage that says not to cheap out on anything that comes between you and the ground: shoes, tires, a mattress.
Comment by jxj24 at 06/02/2025 at 17:23 UTC
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Sam Vines[1] represent!