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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexis Powell" data-source="post: 1366911" data-attributes="member: 5327">I'll take your jump and run with it! For the past ~15 years, I've used 16" rubber boots as my all-purpose outdoor footwear.  They allow me to walk through wet grass, muddy, or flooded places w/o concern, they resist abrasive grasses and other vegetation, and they keep chiggers at bay.  I walk many miles (several hundred) each year in such boots. I've not found cheap (~$30) boots that last more than 50 miles or so before they begin to crack along flexation points, whereas good boots, such as those from LaCrosse, last much longer.  Nevertheless, they too eventually crack.  Suffice it to say that I've gone through enough rubber boots (at times having multiple pairs in play at once) to have discovered that they last much better (don't crack as quickly) when they are treated with Armorall.--APPS Lest anyone think I'm a rubber/plastic preservative fanatic, I'll have you know that I don't use the stuff on my car at all (I don't care if my dashboard etc cracks since it doesn't affect the car's primary function of going from point A to point B).</blockquote>