Guardian Life & Style (US) • Jan. 6, 2026, 11:44 a.m.

This inexpensive duo of winter gloves warms your hands as well as one bulky pair does, but they’re much easier to move your hands in Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things Growing up in western New York meant embracing the cold, but not necessarily defeating it. As a kid, I shoveled snow, built snow forts, ice-skated … and always had cold hands.

While my winter gloves were thick, ballooned with insulation and advertised as waterproof, they were perpetually wet. And they never seemed to dry.

I can still recall yanking on a pair in the morning and plunging my fingers into five sodden little pockets of snowmelt from the day prior. And good luck holding anything but a snow shovel with them.

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