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4.5
There are a few annoyances. Like that the battery that shipped in the remote was DOA, make sure you have a 2032 coin battery handy when these arrive, since I'm not the only reviewer to notice this. They are large and do kind of make your shoes not fit, so don't think you can just put these in all your normal shoes. You'll either have to buy new bigger shoes, or just relace some big boots that can accommodate them. After ripping out the existing insole (unfortunately kind of destroying it) of a pair of big boots I had and redoing the laces to make more room, I was able to get my feet and the insoles in a pair of boots. I also ordered a small when I probably should have gotten a medium, because Amazon's weird pricing scheme made that $10 cheaper and I'm a tightwad. I could have returned it for a medium and paid $10 more, but I ended up just modifying the heel a bit to keep the toe section at the tippy-toes of the boot, because that's where you need the heat to be happening. If I order these again I'll just spring for the medium. The heat lasts a couple of hours, not really all day. It isn't really "toasty," but does mostly keep my toes from freezing, and that's really all I needed. After I'm out for a while my pinky toe might start to get cold, I think if I'd just sucked it up and bought a larger size and trimmed down some of the extra, that would have fixed that problem. Without them all my toes would be little blocks of ice on the regular, so this is definitely improving my life just the same. I don't mind having a pair of warm boots dedicated to them. I even attached the remote to those boots so I don't lose it, because I know I would otherwise.
