Boots! OMG Boots! Is it Boot Day Yet?

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I have a fetish for boots. If I had my way, I’d have dozens of pairs in all shapes and sizes – but I have a budget and other obligations, so mostly I just fantasize (except of course for that six or seven or eleven pairs I managed to sneak in).*

At least once a year I celebrate “Boot Day” which is on the first paycheck after Christmas, during which I make my boot purchase for the year. Sometimes I buy dress boots for work, sometimes winter boots, or hiking boots, or booties for jeans, or even rain boots. I buy them (usually) with heels I can walk in (I have a bad knee) and as good quality as I can afford, sometimes ‘top dollars’, and other years ‘sale rack’.

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