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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

That's a quote from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.

Anyway--I'm gonna need some work boots probably in the near future. And I'd rather buy boots as decent as I can on a frugal budget.

Do any of you have recs? Particularly for someone with very small (for an adult) feet that get cold easily? I'm looking for winter boots that will actually keep my feet warm for 8-10 hours outside in the winter. But I also need to be able to afford them...which is why I'm posting here and not in a buy it for life sub.

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Anything with full grain leather and is resoleable. I have some Iron Rangers by Red Wings I'm happy with. I selected them because they were local to me.