The Life Hack Theory: A Guide to Preventing Creases and Protecting Your Shoes

When it comes to buying shoes, especially limited-edition or high-end models like Nike and Jordan, many people are familiar with the annoying phenomenon of creasing. These unsightly folds can ruin an otherwise perfect shoe, making them look worn out and tired. However, for those who want to keep their shoes looking fresh and new for longer, there's a life hack that might just come in handy.

The Life Hack: Using Cardboard as a Crease Protector

One clever individual on TikTok discovered a way to prevent creasing by using cardboard inserts inside the shoe. The process is simple: cut the cardboard to fit snugly inside the shoe, and then insert it into the shoe before wearing. This DIY hack claims to prevent creasing by providing a barrier between the shoe material and the wearer's foot. While this might sound unconventional, the results are surprisingly effective.

Testing the Life Hack: A Foot-Test

To put this life hack to the test, I acquired a dead stock pair of Seattle Jordan 10s and decided to try out the cardboard crease protector method. With a little bit of creativity and some household materials, I was able to create my own makeshift crease protector using saran wrap and a blow dryer. The results were astonishing – the shoe remained pristine, with no visible creasing or wear.

The Verdict: A Surprisingly Effective Solution

While the store-bought versions of crease protectors might be more professional and convenient, this DIY hack is surprisingly effective. For those who want to keep their shoes looking fresh for longer without breaking the bank, this life hack is definitely worth considering. However, I must caution against using this method excessively, as it can potentially damage your shoe over time.

The Hype Case Collaboration: Supporting Emerging Creators

While I was experimenting with the cardboard crease protector hack, I also came across an exciting collaboration between Hype Cases and a talented creator on TikTok. The collaboration features some incredible air pod cases and dope accessories that are sure to appeal to sneaker enthusiasts and tech-savvy individuals alike.

The Upcoming Underdogs Season: More Content Coming Soon

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The Bay Area Adventure: A Sneak Peek at Upcoming Content

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A Word of Appreciation: The Power of Community

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right here we go let's see if this works oh my god what is going on dream crew family today we are gonna be doing a video idea that I have been waiting to do for a while now basically this has been kind of like a trend that's been going on on YouTube but it actually has to do with tick tock so tick tock has all types of content and one thing that they have is a whole bunch of people making some real and some fake life hacks and basically what they do on YouTube is they test out these viral life hacks to see if they're actually real life hacks or it's just someone trying to go viral so today we are gonna be doing it as well but we are gonna be doing it obviously with the sneaker related life hacks now there wasn't too many on tick tock but I was able to gather some and we were gonna test them out to find out if they're legit if they're fake or if they're just completely pointless before we get started I do have two things I want to tell you guys about well actually the first one is more of a question but I recently like rearranged my room we've changed the display we got a whole new computer set up with a brand new computer if you guys want to see a updated tour like studio office whatever this is called if you guys want to see an updated man hypebeast cave hit the thumbs up right now that will let me know that you guys want to see the video yeah let me know and we'll make it happen the second thing is that we just restocked these hoodies right here this is my collaboration with hyped cases and as you guys can see my boy got little ear pods you see he's got his air pods in he's got the LV supreme hoodie he's got the bread Elevens on so if you guys want to get it link is gonna be at the top of the description of this video don't sleep only $50 for the hoodies and they are available right now on hype cases now with all that being said guys it is time to test out these tick tock viral hacks let's see if they're legit or all right so our first life hacks is actually going to be how to factory lace your sneakers now when you buy a new pair of shoes they always come factory lace I found this kid who shows you how to factory lace your shoes if you've already worn them or if maybe you tried them on and you want to put them back to how they originally were laced up and he basically shows you how to do this life hack I'm gonna watch it right now I'll pop it up on the screen they basically make a triangle put your middle fingers wrap around your thumb wrap around your thumb twice jump over those yeah what I don't know what he's explaining but I'm just looking at his fingers right now and yeah okay let me show you guys how I factory lace sneakers do it like this you put two fingers right here you twist it around so basically you wrap it around your finger then you open up your fingers you grab that middle part and bam that's how you factory released a sneaker but the way he was explaining it was actually kind of complicated I feel like but let's let's try to lace it the way he did does the same thing but he makes it way harder so basically this life hack works but the way he explains it is a little bit more difficult I would honestly say go with the way that I do it with just two fingers right here wrap it around so let's tie it out open up your middle fingers and pull through yeah the thumb is hella more look how quick I can do it with my hands okay washes BAM that's because you've practiced that yeah I have practiced that but guys that is how you factory lace your sneakers this life hack was actually a success let's go to the next one all right we're on to our next one right here and this one is I don't know about this one so my guy has like a beat-up shoe and as you can see he's putting toothpaste on the midsole and spreading it in there trying to get rid of the dirt so he's using it to clean his shoe with toothpaste basically we have one of my dirtiest sneakers that I wear all the time my Calabasas Yeezys camera show you how dirty these are oh yeah okay yeah these are super dirty especially the midsole so we got our Sensodyne toothpaste right here just gonna pour it on there just put a little bit let's see if this works man I prefer to just use crap protect but whatever it's toothpaste really worked it definitely smells good but this is definitely not the best way to clean your sneakers I honestly think this is a fail honestly in my opinion this is definitely not a good life hack like I have toothpaste stuck in the freaking gaps of the shoe like this is annoying definitely not the most convenient way to clean your sneakers still a lot of residue left behind they kind of just took off the top layer of dust but it kind of still sucks I don't see I don't even know what turns when you cleaned this life hack does not work do not clean your shoes with toothpaste prep protect or just if you don't have carpet echt water and soap will do the job I mean it's not gonna do as good a job as crap protector protect is made to clean shoes yeah toothpaste is not the way to go this life hack is our first fail let's move on to the next one the next life hack has to do with displaying your sneakers now me personally I like to display my sneakers right here if you check I got these commands shelfs we got the Kobe's on there rest in peace to the goat so that's what I like to use for my shelves this tik-tok life hack has another way to hang your shoes and display them so let's watch these right here basically he's got the cool graze and then he has thumbtacks and he uses the thumbtacks to hang the shoe box on the wall he put a lot of thumbtacks there and then you just put the shoes in the box is basically floating on the wall now me personally I'm against thumbtacks I don't like to put holes into the walls so we're gonna do this life hack but I'm gonna kind of alter it and I'm gonna use the same thing I use to hang up most of the stuff in my room which is the command velcro strips so let's get the command strips and let's see if this life hack works so for this life hack you're gonna need a shoe box that has a removable top not a flip open box so we're gonna be using the Travis one box and I am going to put two command strips on here you're gonna put one on the top corner you could put more just to make it more stable if you don't want it to wiggle around but two should do the job alright so there we go alright so now we're gonna take off the other end and we're gonna hang it on the wall or should we hang it we got our empty space got a nice little wall and we're gonna basically and push this on there it worked but well it hold up the shoe let's find out all right we got the Travis ones right here we got the box on the wall oh that actually is pretty sick like you could either put it like this look at that that's actually a sick display put them in there like that you know or you could just probably put one on the top I think that looks sick what do you think is that dope or no yeah if you do like a full wall of them you save a lot of money the containers the CREP protect ones if you don't want to spend money on like crazy displays like I have if you just want like you know a dope display on a budget this is definitely the best option because you can go get these little command strips eight to ten bucks it comes with a bunch of them and you could do this a few times like we could probably put like three or four more sneakers on this wall oh look at that oh that's sick right there that's really dope and then the cool thing about the command strips over the pins you actually want to get rid of this box it's velcro so you just have to put it on a different box and these are already there so that you could switch it to another box like you just keep replacing them you don't have to keep like taking the pins out you just I know Mina doesn't want this here so there's gonna be no damage because these things don't leave any marks this life hack was a really great success I definitely recommend this one because this was actually a dope idea all right next up we actually have a tick tock sneaker life hack from our friend already Petru so let's watch this tick tock life hack cuz it just seems alright here we go so he's got some air forces he's got a green supreme little box thing he puts them into laundry he pretends that it's on and the box comes out of nowhere I don't know where the box came from but they turned into off-white Air Force Ones okay so this obviously guys I'm sorry Ari I love you but this life hack is we fail it's more of a comedy skit but it's pretty clever it won't work it would only try yours and see fit so we got the red supreme case we don't have the green one like already had we've got the all-white Air Force Ones here we go let's see if this works sorry I'm trusting you one alright guys so it's been about an hour later and I think it works oh my God look they turned into red Octobers it worked oh my god so this next life hack involves these little you know cardboard little thingies that come with basically all of our shoes mostly Nike and Jordan they always come with these inside I personally hate these like once I buy the shoe I throw these away a lot of people actually keep them they keep them they put them back in the shoe after they wear them there's a life hack that I found long tik-tok of course the kid takes them and he cuts them in half and puts him back in the shoe and he wears them with those inside the shoe to help prevent creasing so he's basically making his own crease protector I feel like it's gonna be really uncomfortable because why would you want to walk with a cardboard piece of cardboard in your shoe but we're gonna test this life hack out we got a dead stock pair of Seattle Jordan tents so this is really gonna tell us whether this life hack works now you can see the shoe does not have any creases before cut right here and let's see if this this is gonna want to put it inside the shoe right off the bat I could feel it oh actually honestly I don't really feel it no wear one without the crease protector and I'm gonna wear one with the crease protector I'm walking hey how are you walking around we're not going to easy taking big steps here I'm gonna bend down a little bit just to see if there's any pressure being applied all right we're gonna take them off now so as you guys can see this is the after results the shoe this is the shoe that did not have the cardboard crease protector this is the one that did have it and I don't know if you guys could see but this one is way more creased this one did crease a little bit but not too much you can see the big-ass crease right there on this shoe and then if you pull up this shoe there is a little bit of creasing but not like a dramatic crease right in the shoe like there is on this one here that do-it-yourself crease protector with the cardboard insert works and it honestly wasn't uncomfortable I didn't even feel them in my shoes so shout out to the guy who came up with this because it was a success on to the next one alright guys so for our final tick tock life hack we are actually gonna be doing one that I'm very excited about now when you go to different sneaker stores some of the stores actually wrap up their shoe so you don't get your dirty fingerprints all over the shoe they could keep them in crispy condition and sell them for the top dollar now what if you could do that at home maybe there's a pair of shoes that you don't want your friends touching maybe there's a pair of shoes that you want to keep nice and crispy because you want to sell them later whatever it may be this life hack apparently shows that you could do it at home it shows them using a blow dryer and using saran wrap and it's just as good as the ones in the stores I know the stores usually have like a whole professional set up and whatnot got some saran wrap from the store right now we're gonna wrap it up it looks kind of weird right now hopefully it will look better all right here we go let's see if this works oh my god so the problem is if you do it too long in one area it creates a hole like that but for the most part it's not as professional as the ones at the sneaker store but it honestly got the job done but I really don't recommend it because I feel like you could damage your shoe like this and who would really need this to be like this at home so alright guys so that wraps up the tic-tock life hack theory of video if you guys enjoyed it I would really appreciate you guys hitting the thumbs up if you want to see more let's try to get like 20,000 thumbs up and we'll make another one of these videos again guys this collaboration hoodie with hype cases is available now hype cases Co as well as some dope air pod cases that they have so if you want to check them out link is gonna be in the description box of this video got to make sure it's nice and clean and yeah guys thank you for tuning in to the underdogs season I appreciate you guys coming back we upload a new video every other day we have some bangers on the way so stay tuned for that because we got all-star weekend coming up I'm headed to the Bay Area this weekend and I'm gonna be filming some skits with the og crew so guys be ready for dope content coming soon I'll see you guys on the next video and we are out of here peace dream closure include routine this one doing how will you do living my life like the Beatles I just put up with some lethal they get mad at the sea poacher maybe peaceful they tell me I got a ego for my peopleall right here we go let's see if this works oh my god what is going on dream crew family today we are gonna be doing a video idea that I have been waiting to do for a while now basically this has been kind of like a trend that's been going on on YouTube but it actually has to do with tick tock so tick tock has all types of content and one thing that they have is a whole bunch of people making some real and some fake life hacks and basically what they do on YouTube is they test out these viral life hacks to see if they're actually real life hacks or it's just someone trying to go viral so today we are gonna be doing it as well but we are gonna be doing it obviously with the sneaker related life hacks now there wasn't too many on tick tock but I was able to gather some and we were gonna test them out to find out if they're legit if they're fake or if they're just completely pointless before we get started I do have two things I want to tell you guys about well actually the first one is more of a question but I recently like rearranged my room we've changed the display we got a whole new computer set up with a brand new computer if you guys want to see a updated tour like studio office whatever this is called if you guys want to see an updated man hypebeast cave hit the thumbs up right now that will let me know that you guys want to see the video yeah let me know and we'll make it happen the second thing is that we just restocked these hoodies right here this is my collaboration with hyped cases and as you guys can see my boy got little ear pods you see he's got his air pods in he's got the LV supreme hoodie he's got the bread Elevens on so if you guys want to get it link is gonna be at the top of the description of this video don't sleep only $50 for the hoodies and they are available right now on hype cases now with all that being said guys it is time to test out these tick tock viral hacks let's see if they're legit or all right so our first life hacks is actually going to be how to factory lace your sneakers now when you buy a new pair of shoes they always come factory lace I found this kid who shows you how to factory lace your shoes if you've already worn them or if maybe you tried them on and you want to put them back to how they originally were laced up and he basically shows you how to do this life hack I'm gonna watch it right now I'll pop it up on the screen they basically make a triangle put your middle fingers wrap around your thumb wrap around your thumb twice jump over those yeah what I don't know what he's explaining but I'm just looking at his fingers right now and yeah okay let me show you guys how I factory lace sneakers do it like this you put two fingers right here you twist it around so basically you wrap it around your finger then you open up your fingers you grab that middle part and bam that's how you factory released a sneaker but the way he was explaining it was actually kind of complicated I feel like but let's let's try to lace it the way he did does the same thing but he makes it way harder so basically this life hack works but the way he explains it is a little bit more difficult I would honestly say go with the way that I do it with just two fingers right here wrap it around so let's tie it out open up your middle fingers and pull through yeah the thumb is hella more look how quick I can do it with my hands okay washes BAM that's because you've practiced that yeah I have practiced that but guys that is how you factory lace your sneakers this life hack was actually a success let's go to the next one all right we're on to our next one right here and this one is I don't know about this one so my guy has like a beat-up shoe and as you can see he's putting toothpaste on the midsole and spreading it in there trying to get rid of the dirt so he's using it to clean his shoe with toothpaste basically we have one of my dirtiest sneakers that I wear all the time my Calabasas Yeezys camera show you how dirty these are oh yeah okay yeah these are super dirty especially the midsole so we got our Sensodyne toothpaste right here just gonna pour it on there just put a little bit let's see if this works man I prefer to just use crap protect but whatever it's toothpaste really worked it definitely smells good but this is definitely not the best way to clean your sneakers I honestly think this is a fail honestly in my opinion this is definitely not a good life hack like I have toothpaste stuck in the freaking gaps of the shoe like this is annoying definitely not the most convenient way to clean your sneakers still a lot of residue left behind they kind of just took off the top layer of dust but it kind of still sucks I don't see I don't even know what turns when you cleaned this life hack does not work do not clean your shoes with toothpaste prep protect or just if you don't have carpet echt water and soap will do the job I mean it's not gonna do as good a job as crap protector protect is made to clean shoes yeah toothpaste is not the way to go this life hack is our first fail let's move on to the next one the next life hack has to do with displaying your sneakers now me personally I like to display my sneakers right here if you check I got these commands shelfs we got the Kobe's on there rest in peace to the goat so that's what I like to use for my shelves this tik-tok life hack has another way to hang your shoes and display them so let's watch these right here basically he's got the cool graze and then he has thumbtacks and he uses the thumbtacks to hang the shoe box on the wall he put a lot of thumbtacks there and then you just put the shoes in the box is basically floating on the wall now me personally I'm against thumbtacks I don't like to put holes into the walls so we're gonna do this life hack but I'm gonna kind of alter it and I'm gonna use the same thing I use to hang up most of the stuff in my room which is the command velcro strips so let's get the command strips and let's see if this life hack works so for this life hack you're gonna need a shoe box that has a removable top not a flip open box so we're gonna be using the Travis one box and I am going to put two command strips on here you're gonna put one on the top corner you could put more just to make it more stable if you don't want it to wiggle around but two should do the job alright so there we go alright so now we're gonna take off the other end and we're gonna hang it on the wall or should we hang it we got our empty space got a nice little wall and we're gonna basically and push this on there it worked but well it hold up the shoe let's find out all right we got the Travis ones right here we got the box on the wall oh that actually is pretty sick like you could either put it like this look at that that's actually a sick display put them in there like that you know or you could just probably put one on the top I think that looks sick what do you think is that dope or no yeah if you do like a full wall of them you save a lot of money the containers the CREP protect ones if you don't want to spend money on like crazy displays like I have if you just want like you know a dope display on a budget this is definitely the best option because you can go get these little command strips eight to ten bucks it comes with a bunch of them and you could do this a few times like we could probably put like three or four more sneakers on this wall oh look at that oh that's sick right there that's really dope and then the cool thing about the command strips over the pins you actually want to get rid of this box it's velcro so you just have to put it on a different box and these are already there so that you could switch it to another box like you just keep replacing them you don't have to keep like taking the pins out you just I know Mina doesn't want this here so there's gonna be no damage because these things don't leave any marks this life hack was a really great success I definitely recommend this one because this was actually a dope idea all right next up we actually have a tick tock sneaker life hack from our friend already Petru so let's watch this tick tock life hack cuz it just seems alright here we go so he's got some air forces he's got a green supreme little box thing he puts them into laundry he pretends that it's on and the box comes out of nowhere I don't know where the box came from but they turned into off-white Air Force Ones okay so this obviously guys I'm sorry Ari I love you but this life hack is we fail it's more of a comedy skit but it's pretty clever it won't work it would only try yours and see fit so we got the red supreme case we don't have the green one like already had we've got the all-white Air Force Ones here we go let's see if this works sorry I'm trusting you one alright guys so it's been about an hour later and I think it works oh my God look they turned into red Octobers it worked oh my god so this next life hack involves these little you know cardboard little thingies that come with basically all of our shoes mostly Nike and Jordan they always come with these inside I personally hate these like once I buy the shoe I throw these away a lot of people actually keep them they keep them they put them back in the shoe after they wear them there's a life hack that I found long tik-tok of course the kid takes them and he cuts them in half and puts him back in the shoe and he wears them with those inside the shoe to help prevent creasing so he's basically making his own crease protector I feel like it's gonna be really uncomfortable because why would you want to walk with a cardboard piece of cardboard in your shoe but we're gonna test this life hack out we got a dead stock pair of Seattle Jordan tents so this is really gonna tell us whether this life hack works now you can see the shoe does not have any creases before cut right here and let's see if this this is gonna want to put it inside the shoe right off the bat I could feel it oh actually honestly I don't really feel it no wear one without the crease protector and I'm gonna wear one with the crease protector I'm walking hey how are you walking around we're not going to easy taking big steps here I'm gonna bend down a little bit just to see if there's any pressure being applied all right we're gonna take them off now so as you guys can see this is the after results the shoe this is the shoe that did not have the cardboard crease protector this is the one that did have it and I don't know if you guys could see but this one is way more creased this one did crease a little bit but not too much you can see the big-ass crease right there on this shoe and then if you pull up this shoe there is a little bit of creasing but not like a dramatic crease right in the shoe like there is on this one here that do-it-yourself crease protector with the cardboard insert works and it honestly wasn't uncomfortable I didn't even feel them in my shoes so shout out to the guy who came up with this because it was a success on to the next one alright guys so for our final tick tock life hack we are actually gonna be doing one that I'm very excited about now when you go to different sneaker stores some of the stores actually wrap up their shoe so you don't get your dirty fingerprints all over the shoe they could keep them in crispy condition and sell them for the top dollar now what if you could do that at home maybe there's a pair of shoes that you don't want your friends touching maybe there's a pair of shoes that you want to keep nice and crispy because you want to sell them later whatever it may be this life hack apparently shows that you could do it at home it shows them using a blow dryer and using saran wrap and it's just as good as the ones in the stores I know the stores usually have like a whole professional set up and whatnot got some saran wrap from the store right now we're gonna wrap it up it looks kind of weird right now hopefully it will look better all right here we go let's see if this works oh my god so the problem is if you do it too long in one area it creates a hole like that but for the most part it's not as professional as the ones at the sneaker store but it honestly got the job done but I really don't recommend it because I feel like you could damage your shoe like this and who would really need this to be like this at home so alright guys so that wraps up the tic-tock life hack theory of video if you guys enjoyed it I would really appreciate you guys hitting the thumbs up if you want to see more let's try to get like 20,000 thumbs up and we'll make another one of these videos again guys this collaboration hoodie with hype cases is available now hype cases Co as well as some dope air pod cases that they have so if you want to check them out link is gonna be in the description box of this video got to make sure it's nice and clean and yeah guys thank you for tuning in to the underdogs season I appreciate you guys coming back we upload a new video every other day we have some bangers on the way so stay tuned for that because we got all-star weekend coming up I'm headed to the Bay Area this weekend and I'm gonna be filming some skits with the og crew so guys be ready for dope content coming soon I'll see you guys on the next video and we are out of here peace dream closure include routine this one doing how will you do living my life like the Beatles I just put up with some lethal they get mad at the sea poacher maybe peaceful they tell me I got a ego for my people\n"