I need new slippers.

(I fall off the wagon and drag myself back on more than anyone I know. Sheesh. Sorry.)

I hate these slippers. I've had them for over a year now and because I'm a cheapskate, I won't just buy new ones because I don't like them. I want them to die first so I can justify sending them to the landfill graveyard. They're beyond the point where I would give them to the Thrift Store to make fifty cents off of, so that's not an option either. Die they must.

They're cute, don't get me wrong, but they're too loud. They're those ones that don't have anything to attach them to your heel, so when you walk, the heel of the slipper slaps and drags over the floor. I couldn't sneak up on a deaf person in these things. Not that that's the goal, but I can't pace in them without everyone hearing me and I need to pace and they're too damn loud. Even I can't stand to listen to the chck-shhh, chck-shhh, chck-shhh a thousand times.

Yeah, it's a little thing. And yeah, for twelve bucks or so I could get ones that don't drag the floor. When I get fed up enough I'll do it. In the meantime, I'm trying to walk them to death so I don't have to feel guilty for sending them to the slipper Underworld. But I can only walk in them so long before I have to give up and put my gym shoes on so I don't have to listen to myself pace. I'm already crazy, I don't need to drive myself further over the edge over a pair of slippers and how they sound when I walk.

You can file this under "First World Problems" for sure.