Why Not Just Buy New Boots?

Telephone call from Daughter #1 this afternoon, who has apparently gotten on the "no new clothes" bandwagon too:

Daughter #1: "Mom, I need you to do me a favor."
Mom: "O.K."
Daughter #1: "Well, you see, Mom, we're supposed to get lots and lots of snow on Friday, so if you could....mail me the tall, furry lined boots I wear when I am home [in the Midwest, where snow these days is our middle name] and do it so that I would have them by Friday, then I could wear them in the snow we are going to get. [Daughter #1 lives on the Atlantic Seaboard, an area of the country where snow does not generally fall and if it does, one inch of the powdery white stuff shuts down the city. Literally.]
Mom: "Well, I can do that by taking them to the mailing store tomorrow morning.... but wouldn't it make more sense to buy new boots where you are living?"
Daughter #1: "No, absolutely and positively not, no way - I AM NOT SPENDING ANY MONEY ON NEW CLOTHES" [!!!!!]

The exclamation points are mine. What's the logic in paying good money in postage to mail an old pair of winter boots when you can go, somewhere, anywhere in the metropolis where Daughter #1 lives and buy a brand, spanking new pair of winter boots - - - and since it's end of season, probably for less than it will cost to MAIL the old worn pair to her? The price of this mailing will be included in my next post.

One the one hand, I am happy to believe that my words and actions can still influence my adult child. On the other hand, there is something about this particular mailing which makes no sense at all. Doesn't logic demand that purchase of a new pair of boots makes more sense than mailing these old, used boots a thousand miles....to the Atlantic Seaboard? Maybe it's just that she wants the comfort of a known, friendly, worn-in boot to the rigidity of a new pair? Than must be it, because it sure isn't very practical. Even if you are trying to save money!