Do you untie your shoes before you take them off, or are you one who uses the other foot to push down on the heel counter while you pull your shoed foot out? That’s REALLY bad for the shoes and breaks them down quickly.
But then again, you already knew that.
Psst, hey, Miscue…you realize the fiancee is posting in this thread, right? Man, talk about a “miscue.” 
The only pair of shoes I own that lace are my walking shoes, but come to think of it, I do take those off that way most of the time. But I don’t have to push down on the heel counter to get my foot out, because the sole is flanged and I can step on its edge. I NEVER put them on by shoving my foot in with the laces tied.
The Calcaneus of Death is weird. Every shoe I buy that has any sort of liner soon develops a hole in the liner, right smack in the middle. My socks wear out there first, too.
I love fuzzy, chenille socks, and I got a few pairs for Christmas. Unfortunately, when I was cutting the tag off of one pair, I accidentally cut a hole, which only got bigger when I tried to put them on.
Any hope for these socks?
I keep socks with holes in them… because it’s all I have! Well, almost. My stupid job requires me to wear steel toed shoes, and they all result in holes in the toes of my socks, often after only wearing those socks once! I can’t really afford to buy 5 new pairs of socks per week (even reinforced ones!), so I keep wearing them til I just can’t stand the hole anymore, and then toss. The few pairs I have left without holes, I keep for weekends (well, during the winter!)
I can’t wait to quit that job and ditch those shoes!
I can easily go an entire year without wearing socks (or shoes, of course, I am not Don Johnson). Wearing socks normally means a good 10 minutes trying to find unholy socks in my drawer. When I wore socks, I would throw away socks at the tiniest little hole.
I keep the holey ones to wear around the house and wear them until they’re unwearable. I don’t like wasting money and even holey ones will do what I want - keep my feet warm - until they fall apart. If I bought better socks (something like boot socks), I’d probably darn them but I tried darning the cheaper ones and all they do is fall apart at the edges of the darn.
Tell the fiancy that she needs to learn to darn a sock if she can’t stand holes in 'em
Mend…socks? Go buy em! Gah!
My misshapen big toes (nothing medical; just ugly feet) pop a toe hole in most socks within one or two wearings. Yes, I keep socks with holes in. I am not made of money. I can mend them, but the results are not a prolonged remission for the hole - they unmend thanks to the big ugly toe. And yes, I do know how to darn properly. And this has occured with the mens’ gold toe socks, so I think it’s just one of the minor curses upon my house.
I wear clothes to death. I have worn
SHOES with holes in them
I have never understood people’s obsession with new and soft socks. I bought about a dozen pairs of socks over six years ago. I still wear them to this day.
I realized that I had my cellphone camera with me at work today, and that I could show you all the extent to which I allow holes to exist.
Oh, jeez—don’t you own a stapler? Works in a jiffy.
But you could start a trend. Be the next Micheal Jackson of fashion. The high school kids need a new thing to put them ahead of the pack and bug their parents. Wearing your baseball cap and pants wrong is soooo 90s.
And us geezers would be able to continue wearing socks with our sandals, only now it would be fashionable.
Sniff—I smell a fortune. Get to work on it, Stinky.
In the Land of the Rising Sun, any size of hole in a sock means it gets deported.
And what was the deal with Wolfowitz? You would think that if he couldn’t have afforded new socks, he chould have had his girlfriend buy some.
See, I don’t understand this “the little hole is going to grow into a big one so better chuck it out NOW” mentality. Yeah, that little hole is going to turn into a big one, sooner or later. Um - so what? That pair of socks which is completely hole-free is ALSO going to get a hole in it … sooner or later. Does that mean you need to toss 'em as soon as you buy 'em? (Obviously that doesn’t apply if you’re a sock-darning type - then you get in early - but that doesn’t seem to be one of the options on the menu for the OP).
Unrepentant holey-sock-wearer (and occasional mender) here. Keep 'em till they start to feel annoying. If they feel OK on your feet, then what difference does it make to anybody else?
They feel annoying when I fold them to put in his drawer. The hole’s in the same place above the same toe in each sock, which indicates a problem that needs solving; that toe is too long! Get the pruning shears.
aha! I think I see your problem right there! 
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Cotton t-shirts or sweat pants with holes will be used for dusting or polishing shoes or washing the car before they are sent off to the trash.
Jeans with holes are kept for gardening, painting, etc.
Any other article of clothing, including socks and underwear, is immediately sent to the trashbin.
All socks with noticable holes go into the rag bag. There is no reason to ever wear holey socks, no matter how small the holes are. Ditto t-shirts.
Well, I am proud to report that I still have all of the original parts of my toes that God hath gifted me, regardless of pruning shears.
Further, the eve past, my fiancee holds up two individual socks and decrees that “You have long toes, and your socks show it! These must be thrown out!”
Whereas I replied, “Honey, there is no clear indication on either sock unto which foot it was worn! Those holes, made in somewhat mirror image, may or may not have been worn on either particular foot. There’s no guarantee those socks were even worn together on the same day!” Therefore, the ‘scientific’ claim that I have inordinately “long toes” has no proof-in-fact, and thus, I maintain that they are flukes–the lack of a pattern again indicates to me that I can mend them (when appropriate) instead of tossing them at the first sign of the fabric’s structural failure.
But I’m a busy guy. Granted, in the space of typing this post I could have had one sock mended, but hey, there’s a bigger principle here: the sock is an engineering masterpiece. If it has not catastrophically failed, it can still accomplish it’s mission.
So while I see most of you regard holey socks more like a demon than a saint, I must still maintain reluctance to transfer a simple, small holey sock to the Rag Corps. I appreciate your input, but I just don’t get it. Am I missing something?
Tripler
Anyone who’s spent time around infantry-types know, socks must breathe!. Apertures assist respiration.
Yes, a piece of material in each sock, in exactly the same spot ya putz. That’s the point.
