# How often do your (pants) pockets get holes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-your-pants-pockets-get-holes/597118>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 21, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-your-pants-pockets-get-holes/597118 "2011-09-21T23:20:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-your-pants-pockets-get-holes/597118/1 "2011-09-21T23:20:41Z")

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Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=505704), and specifically regarding slacks (rather than jeans).

How often do your slacks get holes in the pockets?

(If you want to comment, you might say if, and how, you repair them.)

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-your-pants-pockets-get-holes/597118/2 "2011-09-22T01:30:33Z")

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I have some pants that are 10 years old. I’ve never gotten a hole in a pocket. Can’t vote, the “never” option has a qualifier that doesn’t apply.

I’ve had two coats in the last 20 years get a hole in a pocket, though.

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**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-your-pants-pockets-get-holes/597118/3 "2011-09-22T01:35:23Z")

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Yeah, I couldn’t vote either. The poll needs an “Almost Never” option. I have had maybe three or four pockets develop holes during my adult life, so “About once a year” is much too frequent, and “Never” doesn’t apply either.