It's 6 a.m., the kitchen tile is freezing, and your slippers are on, so why are your feet still cold? It's not your toes. It's the part of your foot your slippers leave out.

If your winter mornings start with cold floors coming straight through your slippers, here's why ordinary slippers miss the ankle, and the bootie that covers it.

It's just after six on a January morning. The heating hasn't caught up yet and you're standing at the counter waiting for the kettle, on a tile floor that feels like it's been outside all night.

You've got slippers on. You can still feel the cold, coming up through the soles and around your bare ankles.

So you shift from foot to foot, and you go back for a pair of socks, and you pull your pajama legs down as far as they'll go.

If your floors get cold in winter, you probably know this list:

Last winter you bought a new pair of slippers in November, soft and cozy-looking, and by December you were wearing thick socks with them anyway.

They covered your toes. That was it. The top of your foot, the heel, the ankle: all still out in the cold.

And the sole had gone flat enough that you could feel every bit of the floor through it.

Each of those helps a little, but none of them covers the whole foot and puts something between you and the floor.

Cold feet aren't about your toes. They're about what your slippers leave out.

Think about where you actually feel it. It's the bare ankle above an open slipper, and the floor coming up through a thin sole.

So the problem was never that slippers aren't warm. It's that most of them only cover part of the foot.

Cover the ankle, line the whole foot, and add a cushioned layer underneath, and the floor stops being the first thing you notice in the morning.

The problem isn't your floor. It's that your slippers stop short.

A bootie shape comes up over the ankle instead of stopping at the top of the foot, so there's no bare gap above the slipper.

A sherpa collar closes the top, a faux-fur lining runs through the whole foot, and a memory foam insole adds a cushioned layer between you and the tile.

Underneath, a textured rubber sole adds grip, so you're not sliding around the kitchen in socks.

So a slipper that actually works on a cold floor has to do three things

That's exactly what The Marshmallow Bootie does.

Meet The Marshmallow Bootie

Here's how it works

A fluffy ankle bootie slipper with memory foam and a rubber sole.

Pick your colour and your size range, pull them on over bare feet or light socks, and stand on the coldest floor in the house.

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What winter mornings look like now

This winter the floor isn't the first thing you feel in the morning.

Basic open slippers often run $20 to $30 a pair.

Two pairs for $35

Every order is Buy 1, Get 1 Free: two pairs for $35. Keep one and give the other to a mom, a sister, or grandma's stocking. Each bundle ships in one colour and size.

Bigger bundles work the same way: 4 pairs for $70 or 6 for $105, if the whole family has cold floors.

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It’s your call

Or you can go back for the thick socks again

It'll go the way it does every winter: slippers on, socks over them, pajama legs pulled down, and the floor still coming through.

Neither choice is wrong. One just covers your toes, and the other covers your whole foot.

Or your mornings can start with your ankles covered and something soft between you and the tile.

Questions people ask

P.S. The short version: ordinary slippers leave your ankles out and put a thin sole between you and the floor. The Marshmallow Bootie covers the ankle, lines the whole foot and cushions it with memory foam. Buy 1, Get 1 Free: two pairs for $35, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Get yours here.