Cobian is my recommendation. Very comfortable.

I know you say you don't want to spend upwards of 50 bucks, but the difference between 10-20 dollar ones and these orthopedic ones are night and day. I can wear these all day with no issue, but my feet and back start to hurt after about 5-15 min of standing around in "cheap" flip flops:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XS4X3BS

Flip flop in my understanding puts something between you toe. I absolutely without a doubt can't stand things between my toes and can't wear flip flops.
But nearly everyday above 50* wear sandals since my feet are stuffed in boots all day at work.
The most comfortable piece of footwear is a Sandal which does the same as a flip flop in my opinion just with nothing between your toe.
That particular sandal would be the Adidas Adilette. A nice formed supportive footbed.
http://m.adidas.com/us/adilett...al-_-adilette+sandal

I have likely owned close to 50 pair in my lifetime. I currently have 7 in rotation.

Another vote for Teva Mush II.
They fit true to size and my 14B dogs are comfortable in them.

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the bottle opener that the Reefs have

I can only imagine the special sort of cognitive capabilities it took to design something that requires putting the bottom of one's footwear near the drinking surface of one's beverage container.

I have to assume/hope that's decorative only.

Flip Flops with a Soul:

Combat Flip Flops: Floperators

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Originally posted by joel9507:

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the bottle opener that the Reefs have

I can only imagine the special sort of cognitive capabilities it took to design something that requires putting the bottom of one's footwear near the drinking surface of one's beverage container.

I have to assume/hope that's decorative only.

Yeah. Excuse me if I'd rather you not open my beer with something that you just dragged across a public bathroom. Just a novelty is all that is.

It seems almost everyone here wears a different brand of flip flop.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
You're all wrong. Lifelong surfer, beach bum, and all year round flip flop wearer/connoisseur here.

Rainbow sandals are the way to go (it's a flip flop).

Yeah, they're around $40-$50 depending where you purchase..but they're leather and will last you FOREVER.

Once you break them in, they mold to your foot and they are the most comfortable, stylish, and durable flops around.

https://www.rainbowsandals.com

Absolutely, positively Rainbows are the way to go!
Been using them to get around Florida here for more than 30 years. Great comfort and lots of styles these days, and the man is right, they last FOREVER!

After reading the Croc's thread here a couple weeks ago, my wife and I made our way to the Croc's store in one of the malls in our area to look at some sandals for her. She ended up getting them and I ended up replacing the chewed up Rainbow flip-flops that I had been wearing around the house the last couple of years. I'd recommend checking out Croc's for their flip-flops. Inexpensive, comfortable and you don't have to worry about them getting wet at all. I really like mine.

Rainbow's. My family are beach freaks and they swear by these. In fact, contrary to the above, my girls break them in by going in the shower with them getting them sopping wet, walking around and then drying out slowly.

I have never done that because I friggin hate flip flops but they have done that for years and swear by them.

They are expansive but they last a long time.

Expensive not expansive.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
You're all wrong. Lifelong surfer, beach bum, and all year round flip flop wearer/connoisseur here.

Rainbow sandals are the way to go (it's a flip flop).

Yeah, they're around $40-$50 depending where you purchase..but they're leather and will last you FOREVER.

Once you break them in, they mold to your foot and they are the most comfortable, stylish, and durable flops around.

https://www.rainbowsandals.com

This. Surfer myself, have had rainbows since I was 19, 50 now. They last 3-4 years before I wear out the soles. Get the double thick ones, great arch support.

I wear Rainbows out in public and Croc around the house/garden.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
Flip flop in my understanding puts something between you toe. I absolutely without a doubt can't stand things between my toes and can't wear flip flops.
But nearly everyday above 50* wear sandals since my feet are stuffed in boots all day at work.

I generally don't care for flip-flops, either, and prefer sandals.

Preferred, anyway. One day, getting on the boat to do some maintenance, caught the safety line between sandal and toes and went literally head-first into the cockpit. If I hadn't been as fit as was, that fall could easily have killed me. That was the last time I wore sandals on a boat. I still wear them on shore, but, when they wear out I may never buy sandals again.

I've found water shoes to be as quick to don as sandals or flip-flops, nearly as comfortable, and not nearly as dangerous. In fact: Last year of owning a sailboat I'd found a pair of water shoes with non-marking soles that were as grippy on the deck as any boat shoe I'd ever tried, if not more so. And I can walk right into the water with them.

The longest lasting and most comfortable are Rainbows.

https://www.rainbowsandals.com/

I get at least 5 years out of each pair.

The last ones I bought in 2012, I still wear.

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Originally posted by CAAT1:
Cobian is my recommendation. Very comfortable.

Ditto on this...very durable too...mine are about shot but they have lasted three summers. The ergo moulded footboard dosen't seem to "smack" as bad when you walk.

I agree with the rainbows. Took me a few wears to break in but are now super comfortable and have lasted forever.

Might give Island Pro a look. Wear mine every day here in SWFL. Bought these in Hawaii in 2004!!

I love flops.

Rainbows are excellent, Reefs are OK, even shitty cheap ones have their place.

I probably have 10 different pairs in constant rotation.

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:

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Originally posted by CAAT1:
Cobian is my recommendation. Very comfortable.

Ditto on this...very durable too...mine are about shot but they have lasted three summers. The ergo moulded footboard dosen't seem to "smack" as bad when you walk.

I have two pair of Cobians, the SAW Gunner's are my favorite.