Is it "wrong" to buy the same shoe is 3 different colors?

[indysteel]

Thanks for all your input, ladies. Who knew a couple pairs of shoes could inspire such debate? I don't really see it as a moral decision but as someone who tries to resist materialism, I understand that perspective. But we are just talking shoes, here, and relatively inexpensive ones at that. As it stands now, I haven't purchased either the black or the red. Knowing me, I'll think on it for a while, place one or both of them in the "cart" several times and never buy either. That's often my version of virtual shopping.

[7rider]

Knowing me, I'll think on it for a while, place one or both of them in the "cart" several times and never buy either. That's often my version of virtual shopping.

Shopping is to buying, as fishing is to catching!

[Pax]

Shopping is to buying, as fishing is to catching!

Oooh, very zen!

[SadieKate]

My budget would be a lot healthier then if there were a river running through every store to invoke my catch and release rules.*

*My apologies to Norman Maclean for that remark.

[Irulan]

Thanks for all your input, ladies. Who knew a couple pairs of shoes could inspire such debate? I don't really see it as a moral decision but as someone who tries to resist materialism, I understand that perspective. But we are just talking shoes, here, and relatively inexpensive ones at that. As it stands now, I haven't purchased either the black or the red. Knowing me, I'll think on it for a while, place one or both of them in the "cart" several times and never buy either. That's often my version of virtual shopping.

I don't think it's materialism when money is well spent. I have several pairs of keens, ( they fit my low volume foot very well) and I did the math. I spent $54 on sale, and wear this one pair 5/7 days a week. That's an average of 260 days a year. That is 20 cents a day to keep my feet very happy. It's less than 20 cents a day if I keep them more than one year.

We all say, if you find a bra that you like buy lots of them, how are shoes so different.

Keen note.. they seem to use the same last for all of them so they are really easy to mail order from certain sale sites...