bookofjoe's Favorite Thing — Or, how to walk on ice without breaking your neck

Here's a particularly timely video, what with ERs around the country being swamped by people with skull fractures and broken hips incurred after falling on the recent snow-turned-into-rock-hard-ice.

You can find these superb lifesaving ice spikes — which strap on over your shoes — on Amazon, priced from around $38 and up depending on how rugged you need them to be.

The ones I'm using in the video up top are here: I bought them at least 10 years ago and they're fantastic.

Note: mine are Gen 1; there are many more recent variations.