How to wear earbuds properly?

I have just bought skullcandies for like 60 dollars and I want to make them last quite awhile since most my other earphones/buds have broken in a year. I basically wear them from my left pocket and it usually goes under my hoodie and up around my neck and back down again. Whenever I want to listen to it I just take it from under my hoodie. My question is it bad to do this? I don't scrunch them up or anything I have a case for them but it would be a bit troubling to take it out of the case and then untangle it everytime I want to use it.