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We're talking about how to properly store your sneakers at home
preserves them make them last just a little bit longer and prevent that yellowing from happening cuz I know
I know you have that same problem and I went through that too
I learned a lot of things over the past 10 years
So I'm gonna show you guys my do's and don'ts of storing your sneaker collection else
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So let's start with some do's and some don'ts and some questions that a lot of people always ask, right
How do you keep your shoes from yellowing from crumbling from looking old from getting dusty?
How do you preserve your sneakers when you collect them for a long time?
These are the don'ts and these are some disclaimer for you guys to understand that
This is natural. This is this is a part of life things get old. They get yellow
They crumble age is a factor when it comes to sneakers. They are still just a material item
I know we value them so much
so the best thing we can do is try to preserve them as long as possible and we can talk more about
Selling them when the right time to sell them and all those things
Stay tuned for that video and I can go in-depth more as well on each
specific method that I'm talking about here
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So don't expect your shoe to be fresh and clean if you wear it, right if you wear the sneaker thing
It's naturally gonna get dirty
It's naturally gonna yellow over time but a way to preserve that is to clean the shoe
Before you put it away if you plan on consistently wearing the shoe
it will naturally get wear and tear and then clean it before you put it away if it is a part of your rotation make
Sure that you do clean it often
keep some of that dirt and some of that gunk off of the shoe that will help slow down the
Yellowing process now for the people that are those big collectors and they have brand-new shoes deadstock sitting in the box
they open it up after years and they're like
What the hell just happened. My shoes are all messed up
Well, this is the problem that a lot of people have and I got the solution for you first thing
You shouldn't do you see these ziplock bags right here
eliminate all ziplock bags
We do not want to have Ziploc bags Ziploc bags will literally be the death of you
I think the only way you could potentially get away with having a ziplock bag is if you put the shoe inside the bag and
You don't Ziploc of the bag
I think it's maybe a little bit better of a coating to preserve some of the dust
But you gotta let the shoes breathe and we'll talk about that here in a second if it's a dead stock shoe
I would say take the paper out of the box
Flatten it all the way and stick the shoes on top of the paper
Do not wrap the shoes in the paper. The paper will make the shoes yellow, right?
So what you want to do is flatten that down and then you're good
also
If you put it in these containers
Never put the paper inside of there just put it in the clear containers and we can get into more of that if you want
To check out the video on where to buy these containers. The link is up above so check that one out
Let's go into the silica gel packs. Now. This is a don't as well these things right here
Yeah, these things these these silica gel packs right here. Yeah
No, we don't want these these things right here are the death of your shoe
You do not want these silica gel packs in or around your sneakers
The reason why these take moisture out of the air, right and what that does is takes moisture out of the shoe
People say oh you don't want to put too much moisture in the shoe because it causes the yellow
but what will happen is the shoe can deteriorate and
It will crumble and it will look like this and you do not want the shoe to look like this
So what it does is it dries out the midsole it dries out the part to the shoe that you don't want to dry out
The foam and everything like that with that happening by the time you take the shoe out
It's gonna fall apart. It's gonna crumble and you're not gonna be happy at all
You're gonna have a old-school OG pair of shoes and they're just gonna crumble right in your hands
So I've been able to preserve shoes that are 20 30 years old
Because of not putting the gel packs not putting them in plastics
Keeping the paper away from them. And now let's get into a very good do right here
This one is very very simple
What you need to do is keep your shoes in a cool
environment cool to room temperature and away from animals and
Then you would also like to keep the curtains or the blinds or anything that you have the lights
Shut or off as much as possible
Obviously when you come in to the room or the area you want to you know, see them and everything, that's good
But just constant light and everything coming on to it. It's gonna naturally make the shoes yellow
So you want to eliminate light from the outside you want to eliminate light from the above on the ceiling the lamps?
Whatever it may be try to eliminate that light if it's in your bedroom
And it's where you live and you only have this so much space put a big curtain over the stack of shoes
that way
You can lift up the curtain pull out the pair of shoes that you want from the container and everything will be all right
So over time the boxes get very very dusty
Right, and if you notice from that dust, there's a hole on the side of the boxes
Right and in that hole is where the dust will also go. So the shoes will get dusty
So this is a part of if you put it in the bag
Which I don't think you should do if you put it in the bag, you're still getting dust coming in from the side holes
So here is an option that I used to do and I don't really do as much anymore
So what I'll do is I'll put tape on the inside of those holes to eliminate the dust entering inside of the box
It does restrict some of the airflow but there is still going to be some airflow into the box
So that is okay
But me personally I'm rocking with the clear containers now and I don't use that many shoeboxes anymore online have probably like 100 more
Shoeboxes with shoes in them so I'll just kind of stick to the containers
But we can get into that as well
The most important questions that people have about the containers is you got the container and it's a clear front, right?
well
like I said before keep it in a dark space and you don't have to worry about
The light hitting the front of the shoes. So you want to keep your shoes away from windows and hot areas
So if you do put it on the opposite side of the room on the cool side of the room wherever that may be
That is very very very important when it comes to that. Another thing that people do is wrapping their shoes in the plastic wrap
I think that is a horrible idea when you get them from a sneaker store and they come with one sneaker or plastic wrap
Okay, cool
but I would bust that plastic wrap right off the shoe and take that and throw it in the trash because
That's like I said again going to take all the air out of the shoe
It's gonna take all the air out of that midsole. It's gonna make those things crumble sooner
They're gonna the leather won't be able to breathe the new buck won't be able to breathe
then it's gonna start looking ashy, and it's not gonna make sense to you, right but that being said
Thank you guys for everything if you guys have any questions or recommendations or comments, or if I missed anything, please
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But these are the do's and the don'ts of what to do when you are
Storing your collection how to protect your sneakers and please please please hit that subscribe button because you guys already know what's up
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