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I have four pairs of shoes the same make and model. I did have another pair again but tey went to shoe heaven. I did save their laces.
They are all the same colour as well and the same size. One is almost worn out. The other pair is slightly better but not by a lot. I am wearing that pair now. The other two are new.

I tend to wear sneakers these days---what people in Europe call "trainers."

My AS mother taught me how to tie shoe laces. My NT family used to laugh, but they didn't bother to show me a faster way. The fastest way can be found on YouTube now. Since Velcro is not my top priority, if I can't get it, I leave my laces set to allow slip-on wear, and only tighten them up if I'll be on rugged terrain. Slip-ons are OK for light use, but can turn an ankle if the going gets tough.

Yeezy are an attribute of sports for me. Even though they're expensive, they look great on the foot

I spent a while experimenting with budget shoes and I prefer a type of cross trainer but I found that most of them would break or have excessive wear and the soles would crack etc. After a few years of budget or semi budget shoes I found a pair that are not too expensive but last a full year or more and so I try to get them. While the first pair I bought went to shoe Heaven their laces live on...
I have had four extra pairs since and though the pair number two has a hole in one shoe, I am keeping them so if pair three, four or five gets a hole in the other shoe they will live on... I was not thinking when shoe number one had one shoe that did that.

The only type I would buy more than once are Doc Martens. I think I've had 6 or 7 pairs in my life time. I've got a huge IKEA bag full of trainers and shoes under my bed but I think they're all different styles.

I think that if you like a pair of shoes then it's not wrong to but the same pair again if you get good use out of them.

Like I said above, yeezy are the most suitable shoe option for me. I didn't have time to choose and try on every brand on my feet, but I chose yeezy boost 350 right away and realized that it was the best decision of my life. That's why this brand turned out to be the most suitable for me. Do you know why? The reasons are simple: high quality, durability, comfort, aesthetics. All this seemed to me initially quite interesting to try once and for all. I am sure there are fans of the brand. Know that I am with you.

I haven't bought more than one pair of shoes at a time, though I like the idea in principle. It's just that whenever I get new shoes I find them uncomfortable for some time, and so I don't want to buy another pair of the same type. I don't think shoes are getting worse in absolute terms (though they might be, most things do). I think it's just that shoes are only comfortable for me when they're old - and by that time they've stopped making that type and it's too late for me to stock up. And it's hard to know how long a pair of shoes are going to last until they're out of production.

I had a pair of boots that were some snazzy brand - "Caterpillar" - which I got for half price - £70, and I thought that was extortionate. They were good for just under 3 years but when they needed re-heeling the cobbler said he'd have to send them to the makers and it would cost a lot, so I got a new pair of very ordinary ones, cheaper than the half-price Caterpillars, and they lasted 5 years.

I think I might like buying shoes more if not for the fact that it's so hard to know how they'll feel when I've broken them in. They presumably wouldn't let me walk around outside in them to even get a glimpse of what they're like under real-world conditions, so I have to judge them by walking around the shoe shop. So I don't know how anybody arrives at a good decision, and they're not cheap, so the whole business seems a precarious mess to me, and I don't like buying them, and I wait till they're collapsing before I do it.

I quite like the principle of wearing nice-looking shoes, but somehow it's become a very low-priority thing with me, and comfort always wins over style unless I'm unlucky enough to have to impress somebody at an interview or whatever, and I'm very glad to say that doesn't happen to me much. I don't like spending my time tying shoelaces but elastic sides never seem to have the right tightness (I feel uncomfortable if my shoes are either too slack or too tight), and I don't like those modern shoes that have Velcro to tighten them, though I can appreciate the practical advantage.

I wore a pair of Nikes for seven years. The outer surface was dark blue kind of silky material and the inner was made of wetsuit material. The best thing about them was that they zipped up. Convenient.

Now do you think I can find more of the best shoes I ever wore? Nope.