in today's video i'm gonna be giving you five different reasons why your sneaker collection
sucks now i'm sure you clicked on this video to see some type of toxic answers of me telling you
why my collection is better than yours and all those other random things but honestly none of
that matters we're actually gonna be going over five different things that i commonly hear when
people tell me that their sneaker collection sucks i'm gonna break each statement down and give you a
rhythm and rhyme to why i feel that people feel just a little bit less superior when it comes
to their collection so if you didn't know by now my name is dj and this is the dna show i've been
collecting sneakers for over 15 years now i have learned a lot of things along the way and one of
the main reasons why i created this channel is because simply i love sneakers so much and i
wanted to share that same passion with all of you and help you learn from my mistakes that i've made
over the years so no i don't think i'm perfect no i don't think i have the best collection ever
or any of those type of things but i am definitely satisfied with my situation
and that is one thing that i feel like a lot of people aren't and hopefully we can help you
learn a couple things from this video and make you feel a little bit better about yourself and
make sure you stick around until statement number five at the end of the video because i promise you
that's the most important one so one of the first things that i hear from a lot of new sneaker heads
is i just started collecting i want to have a collection like yours and how do i get all these
crazy releases so i posted a poll on the community tab here on youtube and i wanted to see how long
y'all been collecting and i came to find out that over 60 of y'all actually just got started with
your first and second year and honestly that is something that i love to see because i want to
share as much knowledge with you guys as possible so with that i see a lot of people coming to me
saying hey i just got started i'm trying to find what to do and i've learned so much from your
channel and some of the biggest problems with being a beginner at anything in life honestly
you just don't know everything you don't have the networking you don't have all the same resources
and it may not just be as smooth as you think it could be simply because you see everybody
else having so much more success and you always forget to realize that you're just now starting
right so you got to learn the history of the shoes the nostalgia the colorways the styles the cuts
the materials the reasons why all those different things so understand that and just know hey yes
i am a beginner i am willing to learn i want to soak up as much game as possible and understand
that it's okay to be a beginner don't have any shame in it don't feel bad about it and just know
that you're going to get to that point that you want to be but it takes time don't rush it if you
go out and buy a bunch of shoes and spend a bunch of money you're going to end up spending too much
money on shoes that you shouldn't have been buying at that price because you were so trigger happy
just to catch up with everybody else i'm telling you right now take your time which brings me to
statement number two sneakers are getting too expensive and i just can't afford them i hear a
lot of people say that and i definitely understand when it comes to that i personally don't
agree with all the prices as well i'm definitely way more selective when it comes to these more
expensive drop especially if i don't really love the shoe so when you're a new sneaker head and you
don't have as many connections and you're trying to get these new releases and everything's all
limited and they're doing these online drops and it's raffles different situations like that next
thing you know you got to buy from a consignment shop or stockx or gold or something like that
and then you got to pay the fees the next thing you know you're spending 1200 on a pair of shoes
i get it i understand it happens it's a part of the game i can't control that but at the same time
you have to understand that's where patience comes in as well or just saying hey you know what i
missed out on that sneaker there's plenty more to come it's okay i'll try to find it for a good deal
down the line exercise a little bit of patience or maybe even try to do a trade with somebody
so when it comes to sneakers being overpriced and everybody talking about this situation now we have
a new influx of people talking about buying fakes and we have everybody justifying the reasons why
and it's causing people to settle for purchasing fakes or getting hit for a scam and not knowing
about it and then they thought they spent a bunch of money on the real pair but they didn't because
they weren't all the way educated or bought it from a trusted source and all these other factors
but either way because of that price is causing people to run into that lane and say hey you know
what i'll take the alternate version or i'll buy the alternate colorway so for example say we have
the travis scott air jordan one and then you have the mocha era jordan one people call that the poor
man's travis scott right so that's the hype shoe that's worth a lot of money and people go after
the other one because that one's a little bit more affordable but then what happens the price starts
to go up because of that and then you try to find another alternate option and then next thing you
know you're buying a pair of fake shoes and you're trying to justify why you bought those compared to
trying to get those so this vicious cycle and i completely understand all of it again i'm not
saying what's right or wrong i'm just trying to kind of explain the whole situation to you guys
so you have a better understanding to why people may think that way and again i can make a whole
video about each one of these topics but that's definitely just a short glimpse of people talking
about why sneakers are overpriced and then feeling bad that they don't have the shoe and they have to
get the alternate option and all these other factors and it makes them feel a little bit
less about their collection and if you want to take your game to a whole nother level and
really learn the ins and outs of all this stuff i created the hobby to hustle program for you guys
so if you want to check that out the link is for you down below in the description
or pinned in the comment section that gives you access to the full program and all the access to
the dna fam with the vip membership where i talk about stocks real estate investing interest rates
airbnb rentals all different types of things other outsiders sneakers as well i want to make
sure that i can help you guys in as many ways as possible and teach you guys all that i know now
let's take it to problem number three and i think this happens for all different type of sneaker
wizards when it comes to this stuff and that is just not having enough first off let's just
know we live in america a materialistic capitalist society right so i completely understand all those
things and again that's a whole other topic that everybody can have their tangent on but at the
end of the day typically when it comes to a lot of things we just feel like we never have enough so
what do we do we buy more we buy more we buy more you have to understand there's going to be shoes
coming out today tomorrow the next day the next day next year next year next year next year more
more more more more more next thing you know you got all these shoes coming out and you're like i
don't know what to do i want everything i get it bro calm down take it easy trust me you're gonna
miss some you're going to win some you're going to lose some you're going to hit on some great retail
cops and they're going to be worth a thousand dollars and you're going to buy some shoe that's
going to go down about it's all going to happen over time you're going to see all these drops
it comes down to just being comfortable with your situation and understanding your budget for the
year your expenses and what you're willing to spend on sneakers to know that you can i don't
know what you want to call it because everybody has different words to it at the end of the day
we're all collectors right we want to have sneaker collections we want to look fly we
want to have dope shoes for different events and special occasions and all these different things
appreciate what you have because at the end of the day there's somebody out there that has less
than you and there's somebody out there that has more than you so you just need to stay in
your own lane and not worry about all that other stuff just grab the kicks that you can grab and
maybe set a goal when it comes to your collection so maybe go after a set of sneakers for example
say you like the doernbecher collection and you want to get every single air jordan doernbecher
sneaker and complete that set go after all those shoes and give yourself a go and work on that and
slowly work on it don't rush it just take your time and enjoy the process of the hunt and the
storytelling behind how you got the shoe and how you work the trade and all those things appreciate
all those things as well had when you were a kid or shoes that you wanted when you were a kid that
that you can now afford now and you're finally buying them because i hear that a lot as well
people say oh man i didn't have the money then but now that i got it as an adult i'm buying all the
shoes that i wanted as of my childhood so that's something to think about as well maybe write out
a list and talk about hey these are all the shoes that i'm interested in that you know bring back
nostalgic vibes and stuff like that like when i pick up a pair of nike shocks or some vince
carter's and all these different shoes people are like oh those aren't worth nothing they're
bricks and i'm like that's fine it's okay it's a shoe that have nostalgic vibes for me something
that i care about that i feel joyful when i rock that shoe because it brings up good memories from
my past and all these things so don't worry about all the other stuff just enjoy the process that's
all i'm saying now fourth on the list this is another one that happens to i would say
more advanced sneaker wizards but i feel like our younger sneaker wizards also have this problem
as well and that's just the overall display and presentation now when it comes to that
as you can see i have sneaker thrown display cases back here again if you haven't already
check them out they are really really dope i have a discount code for you as well dna show that'll
get you 10 off of sneaker thrones but anyways like i was saying these things right here they cost
money right and you want to find discount codes and different reasons why you can get it and some
people just want to display their collections for themselves or they may create content or they want
to take dope photos for instagram or they just want to have nice organization or maybe their wife
is like hey you got way too many shoes all over the place you need to get these things organized
or get rid of them i don't want them in the house i've heard all the situations and scenarios and
everybody's had their struggles when it comes to simply organizing displaying and just representing
their shoe collection at home for their family friends whatever it may be so the reason why
people may think their sneaker collection sucks is because they may not have the display that
they want and the presentation that they want the cool led lights or the nice display case
or the floating shoe display whatever it may be and don't worry about all that again it's going
to come in time if you have to buy cases you know six at a time and you slowly accumulate them over
the year or the next couple years or whatever it is take your time don't go out and spend your
last dollar trying to make it all look fancy and everything all in one pop do it at your pace do it
at your time and if that's something that's not in your budget organize your boxes really well make
them look really cool and do that because that's a free option right the shoes come in a box so maybe
try to find a way to organize them really well and make sure that you're happy with your display or
your room or the closet that you have all your shoes in whatever it may be just know that your
collection is continuously growing and it's always going to evolve and i'm telling you right now my
shoe room has looked different so many times over the past couple years because it may have grown or
i may have gotten a different type of display case or i got these set issues and i wanted to display
these instead of those ones but at the end of the day like i said before just appreciate what you
have and understand that you are going to be okay it's all right your ultimate goal of this sneaker
room this sneaker vault because i'm sure a lot of people have that goal right i'm not where i
want to be at all but when i take a step back and i look at where i came from over all these years
i came a long way and i'm thankful for that and i appreciate my display i appreciate the collection
of sneakers that i have the stuff that i had to sacrifice to get other things to be able to invest
into real estate and i had to sell some shoes you name it i appreciate all those things so trust me
right now it's okay you can do it just get through it be calm be cool it's okay now on to number five
that's ten on to number five on the list this is one of the most important things and i'm sure
you have heard it with all the other four things that i told you on the list and it slowly kind of
leaks into each one of those things and what is that comparison is the killer of joy stop
worrying about what everybody else has what they do and how they get it again don't get me wrong
it is nice to know and learn from people on how they get it so for example if i teach you how
to do something that's going to better you yes i understand that but snooping around in people's
business just to be all nosy and all those extra things doesn't make any sense you could literally
take that same energy focusing on somebody else and put that energy on yourself and that could
help you build your own business build your own things and take your collection to that level that
you want to be because you're so worried about so and so who has what and all those different things
i'm telling you right now everybody gets it differently we all get our money differently
we invest differently not one single person on this earth has the same exact blueprint
there's gonna be commonalities when it comes to being successful but at the same time don't
worry about it i've been collecting shoes for 15 years there's dudes that's been collecting shoes
for longer than me that get it different than me and we may be on the same level on some things
and i might have somebody beat on something and they might have me something beat on that
but it's okay though we all love sneakers together we all enjoy sneakers together so
don't worry about comparisons and all these other things who's got what and this is better than that
and why my collection sucks because so-and-so has more than me and all my this my friend at high
school got these shoes and i don't have them so i'm less superior like don't worry about all that
we all get it differently and trust me some people start off slow and then they propel really fast
like exponentially fast and then they pass up the person that they were like so focused on like oh
man i used to be trying to get like this dude but then that dude is still right there and you're
moving up past them farther so again don't worry about them worry about yourself continue to propel
and take your game to that whole next level and continue to just focus on yourself don't worry
about keeping up with the joneses and who got what money and how to get i'm telling you right now too
a lot of the stuff you see on the internet people be fake flexing and all this other stuff that you
see like not everybody's getting at how you think they're getting it so i'm telling that right now
just trust me it's not like that so whatever it is that you're thinking about these other people
don't worry about it again i know i'm like just going on this tangent because this video honestly
i just wanted to make i wanted to just express myself have fun talk about these topics i probably
missed different boiler points or might have said something slightly misunderstanding or whatever
it is because there's no script i'm just talking i'm having a great conversation with y'all i know
y'all can't talk back with me but at the same time i'm just just you know just unloading unfolding to
you guys i want to get even more unfolded with you guys this year my plan is to just make more videos
like this sit down in front of the camera talk my talk you know what i'm saying i gotta i gotta be
uh uh pg when it comes to the words but you know what i'm saying i'm gonna talk much you know i'm
saying so anyways yes that's that i don't know i hope this was helpful i hope if you are a grand
master level sneaker wizard that you can tell these younger wizards you know what we're talking
about and just because you are a grandmaster sneaker wizard doesn't mean you can't learn from
the people that are beginner wizards because i'm telling you right now there is a transition in the
shoe game as well and some of these new sneaker heads that are coming into the game they're doing
things that we weren't doing 10 15 years ago that is actually propelling them and taking them to a
whole nother level faster than what we were doing 10 or 15 years ago so we can both learn get high
and low levels everything like that i don't see it as levels i think that yes obviously you've been
doing it for a longer period of time but we are all equal it don't matter if you got one pair of
shoes 10 pair of shoes 20 100 2 000 pairs of shoes in your collection i don't care i don't care what
types of shoes you got if you love sneakers i'm happy for you i'm excited for you i love to see
it i love when people are passionate about shoes and they they see the opportunity when it comes to
expressing themselves uh using it as an investment whatever it may be just all these different things
i love seeing it i just love seeing it even if you don't even have any shoes yet and you're on
the verge of getting your first pairs of shoes like you gotta start somewhere understand that
i had to start somewhere whoever was big like that you got on your list right now that's got x amount
of shoes that's so much more superior they had to start somewhere too remember that we all have to
start somewhere so be humble understand it trust the process believe in yourself and trust me your
collection is amazing i'm telling you right now i don't care how many shoes how many display cases
whatever it is that you got in your collection i appreciate your collection i love your collection
it's amazing it's wonderful if you want to tag me in a picture on instagram tag me on ig i would
love to see your collection and hopefully that does it all i don't know if i missed anything
i'll make another video i'll see you guys in another one all right y'all i love y'all i'm out
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oh my gosh bro i was straight up talking for a long period of time right there like
i kind of messed up a little bit and i got a phone call in the middle of the video but
i was definitely talking for like 35 minutes i got like dry cotton mouth right now i was
drinking too much water but anyways if you made it to the end of this video drop a comment down below
and let me know three reasons why you love your sneaker collection
not why you hate your sneaker collection but why you love your sneaker collection all right y'all