Dear Cute Col­or­ful Expen­sive Rain Boots,

Why are you a fash­ion trend? Who thought that tak­ing a pair of $2 rub­ber rain boots and adding col­or­ful paint was a good idea? Who­ever it was has made a lot of money off of all of the moms at my oldest’s school. Doing the min­i­mal amount of research for this post, I saw that Neiman Mar­cus sells a pair of rain boots for $225.00. They’re the Burberry Check Rain Boot, and I’m sure that Mr. Burberry will be laugh­ing the whole way to the bank as some silly woman drops down her AmEx Tita­nium card for a pair of them.

I once bought a pair of util­i­tar­ian, black rub­ber ones for walk­ing around the muddy lot that my house was being built on after destroy­ing a pair of ten­nis shoes. I got them from Wal-Mart and they were worth every penny of the $8 that I spent on them 3 years ago. I still have them. Maybe I’ll wear them to school some­time to try to fit in with the trendy ladies. Then again, I’m not a lady, so they might take it as a slight or an insult that I’m wear­ing rain boots minus col­or­ful paint­ing emblazened on them.

Do we really need things like these? And why do peo­ple feel that they have to spend tons of money on some­thing like this? It’s a free coun­try, I know, but come on, people.