When she first got them, She used to wear them with socks always. She wore them like this for.probably a year and then one day just up and stopped wearing socks with them. At the same time she also stopped wearing them to work and out to public functions. They had been down graded to around the house and running errands only. I saw this as a bad sign so one day while she was letting me take pics, I commented on the fact that she wasn't wearing socks and she always wears socks accept in heels and slippers. She confirmed my suspicions. She said they were starting to break down and starting to stink. I asked then why go barefoot? That will only make them stink worse.
She said it didn't matter anymore and that their days were numbered. She mentioned that she was going to be doing some gardening and general yard work in the next week or so and that was the only reason they were still around... waiting to be sacrificed.
Sadly I missed out on that whole event. I came by a week or so later while she was at work and saw that they were nowhere to be found. Didn't want to expose the depth of my interest so I casually asked what happened and in her own words "I completely massacred them. Muddy and soaked I was also digging with a shovel and they started coming apart." I asked if she then took them off she said no... she wasn't really thinking about them and ended up wearing them until one of them actually ripped apart and came off her foot. That was when she decided she was done working outside for the day.