I ordered 2 pairs of these for my wife and to use when we walk the dog. We started using them the day after the holiday, and we each walk once a day. The snow here in Michigan hasn't been super awful this year, so we haven't used these every day; maybe twice a week on average, and only in heavy snow. We just had our biggest snow of the year, and people kind of take their time shoveling in my neighborhood. Thats the reason I got them, since we both had some nasty spills last winter. The metal coils are broken up, and the rubber is splitting, so they are going in the trash.