Totally agree with
SC kid
I come from buying Jordan's to not even carying about them, I prefer to wear Air Max shoes, low prices runners like Run All Day, Dual Tone, in colorways I can easily wear all days.
Materials is what prevent me to wear 95 when I want, so at least I'm trying to buy only colorways and forms I can assume anytime whatever my mood is.
I remember well a night I made an ID on Nike sipping and listening to Funkadelic... Well, the shoe (a 90) was definitely hard to assume. Plus extravagance is not seemed the same way, depends where you live.
In London touristic zone by day (I went there a very few times, not an expert at all, just my opinion), I saw different syles, and no one was paying attention.
But in France, it is not the same. When you're dressed with a lot of colors, you gain people attention. But when you want to stay discrete, you have to stop to be dressing like this.
I like to balance buying dope expensive sneakers (like 95, 97) with strictly beaters, which are low price at first, and which I grab even less from their initial price.
Can accept colors on sneakers, especially on a 95, design is so solid a lot of colorways can't touch this, but when it comes to runners, strictly blackness.
First buying Jordan's, then AM's and now trying to spend money only on low prices black runners. Was able to grab Run All Day for 45 euros, Dual Tone for 25, and Renew Rival for 40 I think.
110 euros. With 110 euros you can not even buy a Huarache...Want to be discrete, rock my shoes till they collapse, spend the less in order to know I will have monetized them. If shoes costs me only 40 euros, if I can wear them like 40 days, it is already monetized in my mind...But we sneakerheads buy shoes at 180 euros for example. Which means 180 days, and if you have a lot of shoes, even with rotations, shoes would never be monetized, and would fall apart before. Used to monetized my 2 first AM90, at the time, having no sneakers except these 2 ones and the Jordan 4 in Black/Red/White I still have. I used to wear them a lot. I know the grey one was my beater, and I know I didn't lose any euro on it. Wearing them all the time, and even when they were trashed, still keeping them when I have to walk at night for some kilometers and didn't want to ruin new shoes or gain attention. Same for the 4's, but it takes longer, I found them uncomfortable a long time, before understanding I have to break them. Then they become more and more comfortable. The more I ruined the shoe, the more it became comfy. Now a beater.
So we have two ways of doing it, keep buying and having a great collection, but spend a lot of money AND time, with some stress of robberies, especially when your delivery adress is home.
Or keep loving great designs and colorways but not necessary buying them, and arrive to appreciate them not having them, as far as it is extremely hard to be satiated when it comes to sneakers.
Because there are so many great shoes for only one brand like Nike if you have to buy shoes from others, it is endless.
I have leting pass a lot of great shoes for many reasons. At first a little disappointed. But quickly realized I didn't care. It didn't change anything in my life. Except less money spent, less time, AND mainly less stress.
Keep buying, spending, making sacrifices, waiting, this passion is like any passion I guess, quickly ravenous.
