Serious business here, fellas.
I’d always done sock-sock-shoe-shoe without really thinking about it, just because it seemed right: socks go on before shoes. Then one day I tried sock-shoe-sock-shoe just for kicks . . . what a revelation! Because you don’t have to do the leg-crossing dance, it’s both quicker and easier.
You?
Hmmmm. I’m a sock-sock guy too. How much time did you save and how much will it add to my life expectancy?
Really! I want to know. This is NOT sarcasm.
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Too complex for me. I prefer to leave socks out of the equation.
I don’t put my shoes on until I’m leaving the house.
Obviously sock sock. And then shoe shoe.
Sock sock shoe shoe. Any other way invites Anarchy and Moral Decay!
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Archie and Meathead argued about this once. Archie said it was a sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe. Meathead said a sock and a shoe and a sock and a shoe. Have to say that this is the one thing Archie got right. 
Sock sock slipper slipper.
If I’m leaving the house, then slipper off slipper off shoe on shoe on just before I head out.
I put on my socks before my pants. That should answer the question. Of course, it’s the wrong question. What we really need to know is, left sock first or right? For me, it’s left sock first. Used to be right, but many years ago I decided, just for the hell of it, I’ll now start off with the left and I still do. Maybe it’s time to change again.
Wow, I guess this is one of the eternal, irrevocable disconnects between shoes-in-the-house people and shoes-off people. I read this and wondered why I would go down three flights of steps to the front door to get to my shoes while I’m still wearing only one sock.
Ah the joy of Weejuns. There is no leg-crossing dance when you can just step into your shoes.
Yup. Just about the last thing I do before leaving is put on my shoes, so there will be an hour or more between sock-sock and shoe-shoe.
I save probably between one and two seconds each time. If anything, however, it would decrease your life expectancy, as that’s 2 seconds of aerobic exercise you’re no longer getting.
Since this seems pretty unanimous in favor of sock-sock so far, I’d like to issue a challenge: try it the other way next time you put on your shoes, and keep an open mind.
Same here: sock-sock-pants-shoe-shoe. That way I don’t have to worry about adjusting my pants afterwards.
sock-shoe, sock-shoe
Bad knees, have to wrestle the foot into place. So I want to be done with one foot before I wrestle the other one.
In my younger days, I had no preference. I would blithely switch methods. Sometimes I would stand, besocked, still deciding which shoes to wear. Happy times.
Ok, but if the world implodes I am blaming you.
Sock, sock, shoe, shoe. I don’t do the hopping thing because I usually put my shoes on while sitting down.
Sock sock shoe shoe
Yep. Socks on in the bedroom. Wander around the house for between 5 minutes and a couple of hours. Shoes and coats stay by the door.
my full routine: underwear, pants, shirt, sock, sock, shoe, shoe.