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30. Learn to appreciate nice things

This goal sounded rather large in scope, but since I'm not generally buying fancy things, I had narrowed it down to sneakers.  Since I was a kid, I've always loved basketball shoes. One of my favorite part of a new basketball season was studying magazines and going to the store to pick out my new kicks.  For me, the golden age of basketball sneakers is something like 1995-2005. From the Nike Air Flight 95 to the Nike Zoom Lebron III, through the Nike Shox VC or the Nike Zoom Generation (yes, I'm obviously a Nike fan), that era has seen some of the most iconic sneakers of all time. So, it was fitting for me to start working on this goal with a product of that era: the Air Jordan XII (Indigo colorway).  It's probably my favorite pair of Jordans (the other ones being the Jordan XIV and XIII, in that order), and somehow, it's my first actual pair! Although I won't be playing in them, I would have loved to try them on court at the time of their release: the full-leng