Talk about saving.  This is the first time I broke these boots out... and I bought them last year.  Now, to my defense, I did get them in the dead of winter and with snow, slush and salt, suede isn't exactly your friend.  Furthermore, as soon as the warm-ish weather cuts through the six-month long winter, I'm dying to put on anything 
other than boots.  So when my girlfriend gasped at me for having new boots (
what's the big deal anyways?), I told her they weren't new, I had bought them last year.  Does that make sense though?  When does something become not-new?