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I wore the same make and model of sneaker for something like 10 or 15 years and would happily have kept buying another pair every 15-18 months indefinitely, but my mom alerted me in late 2023 that the newest edition of them had been completely redesigned in a bad way, so I panic-bought two more pairs to put off the dread day of reckoning when I had to find a Different Shoe. I deployed the first of them in 2024 and attempted to deploy the second this past summer, at which point I discovered they were also Different, in that instead of the normal tongue-and-collar situation they had a sort of elastic ankle tourniquet that wasn't going to work for me at all. (One walk was enough to confirm that.) If I had taken a better look at them when I had gotten them, I would have tried to return them, but alas, at the time I had merely glanced in the boxes to see that they were the colors I had picked, and more than a year and a half later I was somewhat past the 90-day window for returns, oops. So that was an expensive mistake, but today I took them to Goodwill, and I like to think that someone who might struggle with the cost of nice running shoes will be pleased to find this practically-unused pair, as long as they don't mind having their ankles tourniqueted. (And I did successfully make it through the ordeal of finding a new brand and model of shoes that work, which I will now hopefully keep buying every 15-18 months until they also decide they're tired of having me as a repeat customer.)

Also I actually took last night's books to the library as a book sale donation.