Why not wear them before they get to that point? If you don't wear your shoes, why do you care about their current condition? Unless it's for resale purposes? It's sad to think about how many people spend months looking forward to a launch, talking about them, and putting in a lot of effort to get them. Then stash them away to focus on the next release. Years pass and they become unwearable and unsellable (b/c they're unwearable, or the latest retro dropped making the previous one generally undesirable). If you wear a shoe, most will last for 20+ years in terms of decomposition. If you wear them out, great, that means you enjoyed them, and you can surely buy a newer release and wear them again.
If you're a collector and display them or look at them regularly, then the age won't matter. Anyway, I don't get all of the energy some of us put into getting shoes only to have them rot away in the closet, and then we sell them. Such a crazy cycle!
And StockX is complete BS. Shoes are nothing like stocks. Even shoes you have that are worth money, retail, or more, try selling them....it will take weeks, months, or never. These aren't assets that can be easily liquidated, and they lose value as they get re-retroed. Michael Geller from Shoezeum was a genius for selling off his collection when he did, right as the re-retroing launches began to accelerate making his collection less valuable!
Anyway, sorry for the rant. I have borderline too many pairs to reasonably wear, which I'm trying to do now. I'll never sell them, and want to enjoy wearing them. I don't think I can go over 50 pairs and reasonably get to wearing them all....
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