NT....I now realize how it feels to attempt to kick an addiction...............

pacmagic2002

pacmagic2002

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Ive sold 99% of my shoe collection over the past 2 weeks..........Have received over $5,000 for them all.

Ive got 2 shoes left..........The 2 shoes ive worked the hardest to get..................And i just cant do it.

I know i need to sell them(not monetary reasons, personal reasons)......I know i need to let this "Kicks fiend" inside of me go, but the more i lookat them, i just cant do it. I think it i sell them, it would feel like i lost a part of me for some reason, like when a druggie is trying to get overcrack.....Like when a smoker tries to stop...... Its harder than i thought.

Anyone else ever had to kick an addiction? What did you do to let it go? How did you get over the need to have that item/substance you were addicted to?

I need some insight.......I thought because of the amount of money i would be getting for these items would make it ok (I owe exactly $6700 on my car, im $700short)...........But its not
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Anyone???
 
Any addiction is hard to kick, whether it be a long-time hobby (shoes) or something like drinking or smoking.

But if you really feel in your gut that you need to do it for yourself, or for others; i suggest you do it.

btw if you dont mind me asking, what 2 pairs of kicks are they?
 
Well, when i was younger i used to scrutinize smokers for being addicted to cigarettes. It wasn't until I myself became one. I started to understand howtough it really is to quit.

But, thanks to a lot of close friends I was able to kick the habit. Sometimes you just need to sit back, and reflect on some things. Obviously those last twopairs of sneakers means a lot to you. I suggest you keep them for yourself. Just as a reminder.

EDIT: What are the last two remaining sneakers anyway?
 
Originally Posted by Apocalypz

Any addiction is hard to kick, whether it be a long-time hobby (shoes) or something like drinking or smoking.

But if you really feel in your gut that you need to do it for yourself, or for others; i suggest you do it.

btw if you dont mind me asking, what 2 pairs of kicks are they?
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Its not even really about the shoes...........Its because when they first came out in 1995, I asked my grandfather to get them for me but he came back witha pair of black and red reeboks that, ODDLY enough, had the same color patter as the black/red xi`s (black upper, white mid, red bottom
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) and people teased me about having some jordan reeboks (
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pretty funny now that i look back on it)
But ever since then, ive wanted these shoes............but my mother would never pay more than $40-$50bucks for some shoes........lets just say Carnival shoes was her friend.
 
Either keep both or sell the cool greys cuz the blk/reds actually mean something to you judging by that story.
 
I'm not a sneaker head or anything, but I still think you should keep them. I mean, it's different from continuing to smoke--those shoes are noteffecting your health by being on your house.

You put in an effort to get them, they have sentimental value to you, and keeping the last two for old times sake doesn't mean you haven't kicked thehabit. You said it yourself, it's not about the shoes so much as it is about the situation.
 
Originally Posted by p0tat0 5alad

Either keep both or sell the cool greys cuz the blk/reds actually mean something to you judging by that story.
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& yea i went through that sneaker thing after i started college and im glad i did it, now i no longer get hyped over sneakers. i havent bought apair of jordans in more than 2 years. and i kindda quit smoking newports this year, i only smoke a cigg or 2 on sundays.
 
keep em. nothing bad with leaving a couple behind to remind you of some good times.
 
I just sold my Ray Allen's for $2500.00 today believe me if I did not need the cash I would not have sold the shoes.

I find kicks to be a worse addiction then drugs.

But I got another 280+ plus shoes to hold me down.

I sold 60 plus pairs 4 months ago for $8500.00 i mean shoes i could have sold for triple the amount.

It was so bad on me I got sick over it.

The only good think about It was the person that brought my shoes just opened a store and it went out of business.

I know he was paying alot of reat and made no sales.

He and his family have alot more stores so for what he paid my shoes I am sure hes making double somewhere else.

But know with todays sale I got a bug to move more shoes.

So now it would be better to just look at it for what it is its just shoes
 
^damn nice come up 160.

I don't know man...after I fill the gap 18 and 19 in my Jordan collection I'm pretty much done.

I will still cop some kicks here and there, but not on no collector type steez anymore.

I'm just happy I finally got my Foam One's last year.

Wanted those since they dropped.

Man I just love looking at them and that crazy colored blue.
 
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does that look like porn to anyone else?
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this sneaker thing ishopeless. My house almost flooded for the 3rd time in 10 years 2 months ago, It was annoying to move so many sneakers upstairs, and I told myself I would sella bunch... at least the DS pairs.. but I havent been able to
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I still wanted the shoes but I just take that money and buy more.

LOL

Shoes Its a tuff drug to beat I stopped smoking weed but i cant stop buying shoes
 
if u sell them yur probably just gonna buy them again latter on in life, so u might as well keep em
 
I don't think it's bad to hold onto those shoes. I'm fighting the urge to sell my Shady Bursts (grails). I could care less if everything elsegoes, but just those shoes, that really pulled me into shoe collecting, I'm having a real hard time letting go.

Props for selling off your collection.
 
^^^

shady bursts was your grail? i copped them junts for 250 off NDConceptz a long time ago, and sold them once the novelty wore off....


which is why i'm feeling the same way as my good buddy, its not so much the love of Jordan or the kicks themselves, it's the chase of the elusive...

sorta like a beautiful woman, at first you're like, I gotta have her, then once you get her, it's like, "ehh..."

i'm letting go of the weed and the kicks (for the second time around), so yall catch me in the B/S forum, I got a lil' heat for ya'll...
 
i feel ya...i have like 10 pairs left and im not even into shoes. i wanna get suspension for my car which costs 900 and i'm deciding which pairs to sell. ido wanna hold onto my white/cem 3's b/c they are just beautiful. that and tiffanys i'll prob. hold onto (plus they're gonna keep rising eitherway).

and 160 u use ebay now?!?!? wow how times change.
 
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